(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s a particular type of TV/streaming show around at the moment which purports to be breezily idiosyncratic, and is in fact just that, but which, once it gets going, pulls back the quirky facade and breaks the oddball tone, to go big and dark and reveal just Continue Reading
Book review: The Bookshop Detectives – Dead Girl Gone by Gareth Ward & Louise Ward
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) The world can be a scary, messy and wildly unpredictable place, and while we can’t always run, for any length of reasonable time anyway, from the things that haunt and scare us, we can seek temporary solace in happy places of our choosing. One of the Continue Reading
“‘Tis dangerous out there in space! Trust no one…” Star Wars: Skeleton Crew unveils first full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTGet ready for a brand new adventure. [Star Wars: Skeleton Crew] follows four kids who end up on an adventure to make their way home after being lost in the galaxy following a discovery they make on their home planet. “At its core it’s a story about Continue Reading
Thoughts on the Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough
(courtesy IMDB) If you’ve seen as many nature documentaries as this reviewer – they have always been and will likely remain one of my prime happy places – you could well wonder if there’s anything new under the sun, any new way of approaching the genre that feels fresh or Continue Reading
Book review: Just One Taste by Lizzy Dent
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) There are romantic comedies, and then there are ROMANTIC COMEDIES (and, no, the demarcation does not lie in using all-caps alone). The greater difference, and one readily apparent in the superlative effort that is Just One Taste by Lizzy Dent, is the way in which Continue Reading
Now a major murder picture: Full trailer released for Only Murders in the Building S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn [Only Murders in the Building]’s Hollywood-focused season 4 trailer, we learn that Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel’s (Selena Gomez) podcast is getting a film adaptation. And who’s going to play our lovable heroes? None other than Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Eva Longoria. Continue Reading
Big Disney animation reveal! Win or Lose, Toy Story 5, Moana 2 + news on Elio, Frozen III, Hoppers, Zootopia 2, Dream Productions and Incredibles 3
(via Shutterstock) If you are a super passionate Disney fan, then the odds are very good that you were in Anaheim, California just a few days ago for D23 billed as the “ultimate Disney fan event”. But if you couldn’t make the event itself, and without a Mary Poppins to Continue Reading
Book review: The Nameless Restaurant (Hidden Dishes #1) by Tao Wong
(courtesy Starlit Publishing) When is a restaurant far more than eating (hopefully) great food in a public setting? When it takes places at The Nameless Restaurant, the eponymous establishment in Tao Wong’s arrestingly involving novella which takes us to a mysterious place which offers far more than just very good Continue Reading
Movie review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have ever gone through that messy period somewhere in your teens, and let’s face it, you must have unless some god or another equally mythical being simply threw you down to earth with creational bombast, you will be well acquainted with that sense of who Continue Reading
Book review: The Fog by Brooke Hardwick
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) The Fog was provided as a digital ARC ahead of its release on 4 September in Australia. The slow creep of horror that accompanies gothic thrillers is one of the reasons this particular genre is so widely read. There is something strangely enticing about reading Continue Reading