(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
Movie review: Ghostbusters – Frozen Empire
(courtesy IMP Awards) Is it possible to stuff too much into the gargantuan frame of your average blockbuster? Yes, as it turns out, it is; no matter how big and epic they might seem, it is entirely too throw far too many ideas and plot points and character moments into Continue Reading
Destiny awaits: Thoughts on Halo (S2, E6-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) —————- SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!! ————— Up to this point, Halo has been a relatively straightforward military-intensive drama about two species at war and very much at each other existential necks – humanity on one side and the Covenant on the other side. There were mystical elements to Continue Reading
Things seem to be turning more and more supernatural: Doctor Who trailer for upcoming season
SNAPSHOTThe fourteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who is set to premiere on 11 May 2024. It will be the fifth series led by Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer and the first since his return to the show, having previously worked on Continue Reading
Mini-mass of marvellous trailers: Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Fall Guy, Alien: Romulus, House of the Dragon S2 + Star Trek: Discovery – Season 5 … and Heartstopper S3
(via Shutterstock) Is your streaming and cinematic schedule full to bursting? Then get ready to have it bulging even more dangerously at the seams, with all kinds of great and varied movies and TV shows heading your way. It’s imagination writ large, action everywhere and danger and intrigue around every Continue Reading