SNAPSHOT Fed up with the Magical Realm’s obsession with large-scale fantasy warfare, Jack the Wizard decides to migrate to the sanest place he can think of: Melbourne’s Western suburbs. After accidentally causing a magical catastrophe, his existence (and that of his fellow magical immigrants) is revealed to the Australian Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “The Same Boat” (S6, E13 review)
*SPOILERS … AND DEATH, LOTS OF DEATH AHEAD* No surprise that Death reared his black-hooded head again this week on The Walking Dead. And as is the usually when he turns up, no one was particularly thrilled to see him, most particularly the one person you would think Continue Reading
Why hello Titanosaur! Meet Sir David Attenborough
I am an original wildlife documentary nerd. It didn’t matter if the documentary is about long gone animals such as dinosaurs or more recently-departed megafauna or animals very much alive in the here and now, I will watch it and watch it avidly, lost in a world far beyond Continue Reading
Movie review: 45 Years
One of the great joys of being in a long-term relationship is the comfort that comes from feeling you know everything about your partner. It’s highly likely you don’t since we all tend to keep things large and small from the people we love, no matter the level of Continue Reading
The higher you rise, the further you fall: The chilling world of High-Rise
SNAPSHOT A big screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, High-Rise centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world’s financial hub. Designed as a luxurious solution to the problems of the city, Continue Reading
First impressions: Superstore
If you’ve been paying attention to network sitcoms, and by that I mean anything that appears on NBC, CBS or ABC and yes even Fox these days, you will have noticed that they have an aversion to straying too far from the norm. They may get occasionally wacky or out Continue Reading
Smash! Deadpool’s just the latest film to fearlessly step through the fourth wall
You might recall that one of the many charms of Deadpool, of which there are many not the least Ryan Reynolds energetically mischievous ballsy performance as the eponymous hero, was his propensity to break the fourth walk with hilarious alacrity. That is he addressed the audience directly, in the Continue Reading
Goodbye foul book, I love you not: Why I hate giving up reading something midstream
I am not good at giving up on something before its natural end. (With the exception of cleaning up my room where there is no such thing as stopping too early.) This applies to eating meals, where I must finish all the food on my plate – blame my Continue Reading
It’s a clones world after all: Orphan Black season 4 photos
SNAPSHOT Sarah (played by the mercurial Tatiana Maslany) returns home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive new ally tied to deceased clone Beth, whose identity Sarah stole in the series’ first episode. With the stakes higher than ever before, Sarah and her sestras band together to Continue Reading
Movie review: Blind Date (Un peu beaucoup aveuglément) #afff2016
You know the story. Girl moves into apartment. Guy in neighbouring apartment pretends to haunt her to scare her off. She wises up. A battle of wills ensues until true love blossoms but they don’t meet preferring to stay behind their respective walls and … wait, what? If you Continue Reading