If there’s one theme that emerges loudly and clearly from the genre of science fiction, it’s the idea that for every moment of advancement and rebirth, whether technological or cultural, there’s often a matching cataclysmic moment of destruction. Life has rarely has one without the other and so it makes Continue Reading
Atypical is getting a 4th and finals season … and a teaser trailer!
I love Atypical. Season 1, 2 and 3 of the Netflix dramedy have been a joy full of compelling, accessible characters, witty lines, poignant moments and some weighty life issues. Like any fan of a show that is richly warm, emotionally evocative and all-engrossing, I would like it to go Continue Reading
Messy is normal: Thoughts on Sex Education (season 2)
You have to hand it to humanity – despite all evidence suggesting life is a clusterf**k of magnificent proportions from which we might receive the occasional, delightful reprieve, people persist in thinking that perhaps it’s the messiness that’s an aberration and that’s the normal state of affairs is a blissful Continue Reading
Tons of TV trailers: Vagrant Queen, I’m Not Okay With This, Duncanville, Beforeigners, Hunters
So here’s the thing – there is more TV than anyone can possibly watch in a lifetime (or monkeys typing randomly on typewriters for that matter but then they want to write Shakespeare not watch television so they probably aren’t too worried about that.) And yet … AND YET … Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
While the world seems obsessed with all things apocalyptic at the moment, the truth is that a darker and far more troubling future for humanity is one in which the world doesn’t end so much as slide, ingloriously and with every last shred of idealism shorn from it, into bleak Continue Reading
Movie review: Monsoon #MGFF20
Perhaps Lauren Eden, a Melbourne poet with a gift for elegant, exquisitely well-expressed lines said it best when she observed in her collection Of Yesteryear that “We live in the small spaces between our words / hiding between the said / and all we cannot say.” There is an ocean Continue Reading
A marvelous mini-mass of movie trailers: The Green Knight, The Iron Mask, The French Dispatch
The possibilities of cinema are endlessly expansive. For every serious, Oscar-worthy film, there are equally well-made films that are full of quirk and wonder and a glimpse of the human condition told through wholly different and welcomingly offbeat eyes. These three films, all coming to a cinema or streaming service Continue Reading
Book review: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
Social media is supposed to be the great unifier of far-flung people, like-minded souls and connection-hungry 21st century denizens. And in many ways it is, bring people into contact who might otherwise never meet, spreading ideas that can make the world better and and helping people to feel just that Continue Reading
Interview me! Promo fun with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda from Grace and Frankie
It’s tale as old as time … or at least the entertainment industry – if you make it, you must promote it. Most of the time, from what many actors and producers say, its sheer drudgery, a box to be ticked and nothing more, but sometimes the heavens align, interviewer Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #22: BAYNK, French 79, Big Wild, blackbear, Yumi Zouma + Eurovision update
Time to turn things down, people. Not simply because it’s Friday, it’s been a big week and we are ridiculously exhausted but because quiet times are good for the soul. And the heart and the body … and really, just about everything. These five quietly but powerfully talented artists know Continue Reading