December 31, 2018 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

There is a great charm and sweet vibrancy to Flavor by writer Joseph Keatinge and artist Wook Jin Clark (with colouring by Tamra Bonvillain and lettering by Arian Maher) which deep into a world where food and its preparation, presentation and consumption is akin to a high religion which governs Continue Reading

Book review: The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock

ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 7 July 2021 in Australia. Trauma in life is inevitable. None of us particularly want to admit to that since it means dismantling this cosy late twentieth century notion that it we do everything right we will lives as charmed as the happy-ever-after in Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 2 – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark

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

Say “Hi!” to the friendly neighbours there … Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (poster and trailer)

SNAPSHOT[Street Gang], which inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book of the name, chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education, and representation worldwide. The doc features more than 20 interviews with Continue Reading

Book review: The Emporium of Imagination by Tabitha Bird

You not immediately think to link a viral sensation Disney + series with an Australian writer who calls Boonah, Queensland home, but as you soak yourself in the healing balm that is Tabitha Bird’s The Emporium of Imagination, which deals with grief in one of the creative and soul restorative Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #46: Love Level, Kartell & Tim Atlas, José González, Lauren Auder, Will Stratton

Are you frazzled? L Is life too intense and too full-on for you to collect your thoughts and think about what it all means, if it in fact means anything at all? Then sit down and listen to these five tracks which offer you not only lyrical introspection and thoughtfulness Continue Reading

Mini-mass of movie trailers: We Broke Up, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Drop Everything and Run

Ah, movies how we love thee! You give us all kinds of escape from the mundanity of everyday life and we are all the richer for your presence in our lives, especially when pandemics seem to go out of their way to make reality even bleaker than it is normally. Continue Reading

Book review: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

It’s a weighty question but one that is always worth asking – what does it mean to love? There will be as many answers to that as there are people on the planet but suffice to say that one person worth listening to, and listening to with rapture and wonder Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: “Away” by Florian Petiteau

SNAPSHOTTheCGBros Presents Away by Florian Petiteau. Away, [the] short story of a dreaming stone, is a 3D animated short directed by Florian Petiteau with music composed by Valentin Petiteau. Away is about a stone stuck on his mountain dreaming of going to see the sea. (synopsis via YouTube) There is Continue Reading

Movie review: Supernova

A lot of visual storytelling has conditioned us to the idea that big emotional moments happen in a music-soaring, climactic ways that dominate everything around them. But the truth is that in real life, life-shattering life events often happen quietly in the limbo period between dawn and the day or Continue Reading

Happy pop culture new year everyone!

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