Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

(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

Fire up the streaming algorithm! Two new shows for your viewing delight – The Studio and Government Cheese

(via Shutterstock) The bounty of streaming continues! True, finding the time to watch it all is a challenge – I’m not sure when TV went from escapist fun to a timetabling-intensive pursuit but here we are – but with so many great shows to watch, it’s the kind of challenge Continue Reading

Book review: Death Valley by Melissa Broder

(courtesy Bloomsbury.com) One of the qualities most lauded among people under stress is the ability to go on face of incalculable and often heavily wearing odds. And while resilience in any form is to be admired, what is frequently missed when we are admiringly placing people under great duress on Continue Reading

Grab the popcorn! It’s time for another mini-mass of movie trailers – Night of the Zoopocalypse, A Nice Indian Boy + Bullet Train Explosion

(via Shutterstock) A mixed bag at the cinema this time around but who doesn’t love some eclectic popcorn and choc top-accompanied visual entertainment? Bring it on and let’s giddily switch between animation and rom-com and action, a genre expansive romp through the movies which can only do us good. Well, Continue Reading

AFFFF25 movie review: Souleymane’s Story (L’Histoire de Souleymane)

(courtesy IMDb) When did compassion become a dirty word? In our modern age of plenty and digital connectivity when we should be feeling that we are more of a community than not, humanity is pulling up the drawbridge and staring stonily, and often with bristling, cruel hatred, at those looking Continue Reading

Book review: Never Ever Forever by Karina May

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Falling in love is really quite delightful. Stating the obvious there I know, but sometimes when you dive into a rom-com that’s not exactly humming along on all rose-petal fueled cylinders, you could be forgiven for wondering if it’s worth all of the misassumptions, toing-and-froing and Continue Reading

The silly and the serious, the cartoonish and the evil: Doctor Who drops new S2/S15 trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… [Doctor Who] audiences will join The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on an epic quest to get Belinda back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, ferocious enemies and wilder terrors Continue Reading

“If we want to save this world, creativity is key to survival” A Minecraft Movie unleashes a final fun-filled trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) Welcome to the world of Minecraft – where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal Continue Reading

Book review: Extinction by Bradley Somer

(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) How far would you go to protect something you truly and deeply love? It’s an academic question for most of us, but for Ben, the protagonist of Bradley Somer’s Extinction, it’s a real and pressing question that could him relationships, friendships, any sense of wellbeing left Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #121: Jamie xx, MØ, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Rae Morris + Eurovision 2025 update

(via Shutterstock) So much good music, and it seems often, so little time to listen to it all. Thankfully thought in a world awash with artists and songs, some do make it through all the digital white noise and make themselves first known and then welcome, enriching commutes, workdays or Continue Reading

Match of the Day meets Miss Marple: Thoughts on Changing Ends

(courtesy IMDb) Growing up is a challenge at the best of times. But it’s made infinitely more complicated when you don’t exactly fit the very narrow mold of acceptability that society has laid down and you discover in the midst of all the chaos of getting older, that you’re not Continue Reading

First two sci-fi episodes: Reviews of Skeleton Crew season 1 (E1-2), and Silo season 2 (E1-2)

“‘Tis dangerous out there in space! Trust no one…” Star Wars: Skeleton Crew unveils first full trailer