(via Shutterstock) Creativity is often portrayed as a solo pursuit, something a lone soul in a cloistered ivory tower just for the love of creation alone. But the truth is that while letting yourself loose in your own passion and imagination can lead to all kinds of wondrously good things Continue Reading
Big changes. New emotions. Teaser trailer releases for Inside Out 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Continue Reading
Movie review: Northern Comfort #BFF23
(courtesy IMDb) Being afraid of something comes with the territory of being alive. Whether it’s an evolutionary response or simply an existential stress reaction to being human where, despite all the trappings of civilisation, there’s a lot to be afraid of, human beings tend to get anxious and afraid a Continue Reading
Oh my heart: Embrace the adorably meaningful with Teddy’s Christmas and The Velveteen Rabbit
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTWhile visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, 8-year-old Mariann (starring Marte Klerck-Nilssen) suddenly sees an unbelievable sight: on the top shelf of a carnival game booth, the most adorable stuffed teddy bear has just moved his head and sneezed. Feeling an instant connection with the Continue Reading
Wrapping things up: Still Up (S1, E5-8) and Star Trek: Lower Decks (S1, E8-10)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) Still Up (S1, E5-8) The will-they, wont-they dance of the first half of the debut season of Still Up, naturally ramps up considerably in the back half but this being a British series, things don’t quite play out as rom-com obvious as you might assume. In Continue Reading
#Christmas preview book review: Weirdo by Sara Pascoe
(courtesy Allen & Unwin) This will hardly come as a news flash to anyone but life rarely lives up hype and expectation. When we’re younger, we expect bounteous riches, if not material then at the very least existential, to flow down upon us like confetti at an environmentally unsound wedding, Continue Reading
Be careful what you wish for: Wish unveils all kinds of promotional goodies
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Disney Animation’s Wish, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Good Luck by Matthew Erman and Stefano Simeone
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Great big expansive sci-fi stories are always a huge delight to lose yourself in. While the really good ones ask some fairly intense questions about who we are and why we do what do (and why maybe we should rethink that because reasons), they also have Continue Reading
Book review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) We live in a perilously binary world, one that separates everything into stark Os or 1s and refused to entertain the idea of halves, gradients or places in-between. Armed with that dangerously blinkered mindset, people then begin to assign worth and blame to those that either Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The ultimate sacrifice of Crow: The Legend
(courtesy Baobab Studios) SNAPSHOTFrom the director of Madagascar, INVASION!, and ASTEROIDS! comes Baobab Studios’ latest visionary VR animation. The carefree forest animals imagine spring will last forever. However, winter comes and the animals soon realize that their lives are in danger. What they need is a hero; what they need Continue Reading