(courtesy IMP Awards) Frasier S2: E1-2 “Ham” and Cyrano, Cyrano” A Meta-based featurette on season two of the Frasier revival, often called Frasier (2023), promises, with the excitable sense of hype for which this type of promo is known, that the show’s second season shows the characters settling into themselves Continue Reading
Book review: Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
(courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing) The phrase, “You can never go home again”, lifted from the title of a 1940 novel by Thomas Wolfe, is oft cited as proof that the past is somewhere so heavily coloured by nostalgia that viewing in anything like objective terms is all but impossible. That’s, on Continue Reading
From India to America … and hilariously on: The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh
(courtesy IMDb (c) Amazon Prime) SNAPSHOTProduced by Sony Pictures Television, [The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh] mixes comedy and mystery as Pradeep family members retell the often conflicting stories of their first few months in Pittsburgh during an interrogation. Those tales include clashes with their Penguins-jersey-wearing (Ethan Suplee, My Name is Earl) Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #113: Hollow Coves, KAZIMI, flowerovlove, Tears For Fears, FAUN + Eurovision 2025 update!
(via Shutterstock) Life is fast … and noisy … and unceasing in its demands and challenges. No news flashes there, of couse. So, in amongst all the tumult and chaos and cacophony of everything seemingly happening all at once, we need moment, many moments in fact, where we just slow Continue Reading
Movie review: My Old Ass
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the strangely discordant things that hit you as you reach the age where you’re old enough to think about cutting ties to your parents, physically at least, and forging your own own place in the world, and with it your own adult identity, is that Continue Reading
Fall hard, love harder: Heartstopper season 3 drops its first trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTYou may recall, moments before Heartstopper season 2 concludes, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) solidify their feelings for each other in a deeply vulnerable conversation. As honest as their heart-to-heart is, it seems there are things still left unsaid. “I love your hair. I love Continue Reading
They’re ready for their close call: Only Murders in the Building S4, E1-3 “Once Upon a Time in the West” / “Gates of Heaven” / “Two for the Road”
(courtesy IMP Awards) They’re back! While there are many TV/streaming shows where you often feel, as a new season dawns, as if you are being reunited with characters you know and love, there are only a select few where you feel as if you’re back with family. While that differs Continue Reading
Book review: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
(courtesy Little Brown) People have long debated whether it’s nature or nurture that shapes us and turns out into the human beings we grow to become; but what about robots? Can they ever really change? After all, aren’t they simply programmed Os and 1s working in algorithmic succession according to Continue Reading
Queerscreen movie review double: Turtles (Les Tortues) + Gondola
(courtesy IMDb) Turtles (Les Tortues) Turtles (Les Tortues) is a film that sits poignantly at the far end of the spectrum of love. While we are well used to seeing the beginning of Cupid’s journey, the road that marks the end of a grand love affair is not as well Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) This one is. This phrase, which distills into three short but carefully chosen words a centred approach to life that forces, in the best way, to only think and concentrate on the present, repeats over and over in the imaginative joy that is The Last Gifts Continue Reading