(courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing) Could it be possible that the whodunnit can be reborn at the very end of the world? Well, to be fair, in the case of the inimitable Stuart Turton that happened a number of years back with the head-scratchingly brilliant The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018) Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #105: Kasbo, GusGus, Lindsey Stirling, Maddy O’Neal & COFRESI + Zerb & the Chainsmokers
(via Shutterstock) Sesame Street is always encouraging us to work with others nicely and in a spirit of fruitful cooperation and it’s heartening to see that many of the artists in this post have taken that to heart. By combining their hearts, they have given us tracks that are not Continue Reading
Movie review: Robot Dreams
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity is anchored and defined by its relationships. While romantic love steals much of the showy, relationally performative limelight, it is friendship that often sustains us and endures long beyond the flashy pop and fizz of eros, giving us a sure point of return in the chaotic Continue Reading
Find your rhythm and sparkle on … Thelma the Unicorn drops a funny, colourful and heartfelt trailer
(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThelma is a small-time pony who dreams of becoming a glamourous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma is transformed into a unicorn and instantly rises to global stardom. But this new life of fame comes at a cost. Thelma the Continue Reading
Book review: Wrong Answers Only by Tobias Madden
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) How on earth do you respond with any sense of sanity or certainty when everything you have ever depended on suddenly crumbles to dust in one fateful instant? That’s the huge question that confronts Marco di Mario one particularly scary day when, fresh from finishing first Continue Reading
Movie review: Monkey Man
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revenge is a common enough them in storytelling that having it anchor yet another action thriller feature film might seem a little been-there-done-that-don’t-really-think-I-need-the-T-shirt. After all, the John Wick series aside which is as superlative as this well-worn genre gets and which deserves all the accolades bountifully handed Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia (Semi final 2, part 1)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Getting used to the world with Plum
(courtesy ESMA 3D) SNAPSHOTWhen Plum hatches from his egg, the little dinosaur is not ready for the universe in which he was born. Carefree and mischievous, he roams around, watched by a dragonfly. However, his innocence is shattered when he makes a terrible discovery about his world … (courtesy YouTube Continue Reading
Book review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There is something thrillingly intense about every book that Adrian Tchaikovsky writes. While his stories aren’t necessarily told in an adrenalised pedal-to-the-metal fashion, they are always packed full of intriguing and utterly fascinating ideas that percolate with ferocity and passion out of every word and page, Continue Reading
Weekday movie character poster art: The many faces of IF
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhat if everything you believed as a kid was real? From the imagination of John Krasinski, enter a world you have to believe to see. From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and Continue Reading