SNAPSHOT Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this Continue Reading
Movie review: Finding Dory
You could well argue that a film as beautifully made and emotionally impacting as Finding Nemo doesn’t require a sequel; that it is perfectly complete in and of itself. That argument would likely stand until you see Finding Dory, Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece which takes the forgetful Pacific Regal Continue Reading
Hey Hodor, come and play the many games of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones title suggests many things – the perverse lengths many men and women will go to grab hold of the shiny brass ring of absolute power, the insanity of thinking that holding onto something as ephemeral as power will last any longer than a game, and whether Continue Reading
Book review: Lily and the Octopus by Stephen Rowley
Grief can be a cruel, intangible beast. As we grapple with great loss and the seemingly unending loss of control that comes with it, we struggle to understand how to approach to deal with it, how to regain some form of power from an entity that seems to have Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Want to make life less boring? Just add monsters!
What does the everyday world of commuting, paying taxes and hurried lunches need more of you ask? Why monsters! Yes … MONSTERS. Now if you’re a resident of some nightmarish apocalyptic landscape like The Walking Dead or Alien/s, you may wish to disagree. But I’ll hazard a guess that, Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Once Upon a Time in Wayward Pines” S3, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTASTEFUL SMELL OF DREAMS DYING* So dreams huh? Lovely things to hold onto, filling you with hope and expectation, great lyrical fodder for Disney musical songs or Hallmark cards, but a real nasty piece of work when they die and disappoint. Or if you’re Continue Reading
Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers
It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading
The ocean is calling: Moana trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure Continue Reading
Is it possible to bridge The Space Between Us?
SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading
Book review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Being an outsider is never an easy thing. It can be wondrous, freeing, the granter of wildly unexpected perspectives and a sense of being uniquely set apart; but it can also leave you feeling lonely, socially crucified and ill-adept and wondering if there is a place for you in Continue Reading