Easter 2026 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

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Book review: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage

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Songs, songs and more songs #135: girli, Em Beihold, Alex Warren, TOMORA + Jessie Ware … extra! RAYE live at Abbey Road

(via Shutterstock) INTRO “Romantic Sadness” by girli (courtesy official girli Facebook page) Active in the music industry since 2014, Girli, known to her parents, friends and the UK Government as Amelia Toomey, is a talented London-based singer-songwriter. One of her many great strengths as a music artist is her gift Continue Reading

Movie review: The Magic Faraway Tree

(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a tale as old as, well, not time exactly, but certainly since the day movies arrived just over a century ago and began adapting books into films, setting in train a titanic battle between those who believe solely in the purity of the written word and Continue Reading

An unwelcome visitor … or the start of healing? Thoughts on Homebodies

(courtesy Random Management Instagram) So much is left unsaid when you’re a queer person coming out to your parents. You may have rehearsed the conversations a thousand times in your head, imagined how the discussion might go, good or bad and hoped that everything you authentically are will be far Continue Reading

Book review: That Island Feeling by Karina May

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Heading off on holidays, all we really want is to get away from the insistent stresses and strains of everyday life. Hand us a cocktail, sit us by the pool or in a bush cabin somewhere, banish the internet to a simpler, more analogue time and Continue Reading

Movie review: Project Hail Mary

(courtesy IMP Awards) At the heart of every great and enduring sci-fi story, sits an impressive amount of evocative humanity. It’s easy just to see the spaceships and the planetary expanses and aliens and wars and epic space opera sprawling across millennia and impossibly far light years of stars and Continue Reading

“Oh my God, run!!” The End of Oak Street releases a prehistorically intriguing trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading

Book review: The Last Poem by Courtney Peppernell

(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) When my parents died less than four years apart in the mid-to-late 2010s, I was plunged into the kind of grief I had never really known before. And honestly, I wasn’t sure what to do with it; I expected it to be intense then ebb Continue Reading

Meaning and mutual understanding: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTThis intimate documentary blends the remarkable story of David Attenborough’s first encounter with the baby gorilla Pablo with a deep dive into how Pablo’s direct descendants are doing today in the mountains of Rwanda. Weaving together contemporary and archival footage of the gorilla group and narrated by Continue Reading

Movie review: Hoppers

(courtesy IMP Awards) Really believing in something, in its purest and least judgmental form, is among life’s greatest joys. There’s nothing like the passion that courses through your veins, the sparkle of idea fizzing with excitable urgency around your brain and your heart being fully engaged in something that really Continue Reading