(courtesy Penguin Random House) Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War by Mike Chen (writer) and Angel Hernandez (art), is one of Continue Reading
Your cosmic joyride awaits … Doctor Who drops new trailer and episode titles
SNAPSHOTThe series stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, a new incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box from the outside. The Fifteenth Doctor was introduced in “The Giggle” (2023) through a Continue Reading
Book review: The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas
(courtesy Text Publishing) Pretty much everyone on the planet sets out on this somewhat strange journey called life aiming for and expecting the best. After all, who wants to aim lower than that? It’s a one-shot deal and you’re hardly going to launch yourself into the fray hoping and planning Continue Reading
The Easter short and the short of it: Happy Easter has a lot of madcap fun subverting the festive event
(courtesy official Facebook page) SNAPSHOTTheCGBros Presents Happy Easter by ESMA (team: uliette AUDUREAU, Maho CLAQUIN, Titouan COCAULT, Yann COUTARD, Franklin GERVAIS, Sophie TERRIERE, Xinlei YE, Nathan EINHORN, José VICENTE, Tristan LE BOZEC, Yoann PONCET). In the storefront of a chocolate factory, the Easter Bunny gets an unexpected visitor as a Continue Reading
Easter kids’ book fun: Easter Eggstravaganza, Bugs Bunny at the Easter Party and Dear Easter Bunny
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Easter Eggstravaganza by Roald Dahl (illustrated by Quentin Blake) Can you have Easter eggs all year through? Supermarkets and chocolate retailers seem to think you can; for no sooner has Christmas tinseled off into the distance than Easter eggs (and hot cross buns for that matter) Continue Reading
Their sisterhood is about to evolve: Dinosaur drops an hilarious trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA new comedy series created by Matilda Curtis and Ashley Storrie, Dinosaur follows Nina (Ashley Storrie), an autistic woman in her 30s, who adores living with her sister and best friend, Evie. They have a routine, and they understand each other like no one else could until Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 2 – Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova (Semi final 1, part 2)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Movie review: A Difficult Year (Une année difficile)
(courtesy IMDb) Beginnings are everything when it comes to storytelling – sure you need an engaging middle and a decisively satisfying ending but if things go awry at the start, you’re not going to be waiting around for anything that comes after – and A Difficult Year (Une année difficile) Continue Reading
Book review: Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life by Helen Fisher
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) Stepping out of comfort zones is easier for some people more than others. But the truth is that no matter our willingness to push those envelopes and test those boundaries, all of us have well-mapped and comfortably known places that we prefer to inhabit over Continue Reading
Discover the secret that connects us all with Our Living World
(courtesy & (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTAt first glance, the grazing patterns of reindeer in the Arctic may not appear to have much to do with the day-to-day lives of hippos in Africa. Despite the physical distance between these herds, however, their survival is bound together in a vast and intricately linked Continue Reading