SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTORTED REALITY OF GRIEF … Even in the first two classic sitcom-styled episodes of WandaVision, one of the best shows to hit any screen in quite some time, it became patently obvious that all was not well in the suburban idyllic world of Westview, New Continue Reading
Book review: The History of Living Forever by Jake Wolff
Ah, the heady lure of immortality – what is there not to find attractive about the idea of living forever? Almost nothing if the motivations of the characters in Jake Wolff’s unconventionally plotted race to the immortal finish line, The History of Living Forever is any guide. In this sometimes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Croods – A New Age
The far, far past was a dangerous time for humanity. What with carnivorous, hyper-coloured kangaroo/armadillo hybrids, jagged ice trees that surge from the ground with no warning, landscapes that range from deserty and rocky to dangerously giant bug-filled and earnest post-cave dwelling hipsters, there was a lot that could go Continue Reading
Book review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
There is a profound beauty and sense of completion that comes into being when someone is finally able to be authentically who they are. No more hiding, no more deception, to themselves or others, a giddy sense of self acceptance that becomes all the more potent when others also accept Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The touching search for love in Unbreakable
SNAPSHOT“Unbreakable” is the story of Barbara the Bunny. When she begins to persistently cough, “Quality Control” at the toy factory labels her “defective,” and so her search for treatment begins. She goes from shop to shop to no avail, until she discovers a loose string of yarn that takes her Continue Reading
Movie review: High Ground
Films, by and large, and this is by no means a hard and fast rule, either fall into two distinct camps – those you watch and those you experience. High Ground, a superlatively affecting Australian film, directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson to a screenplay by Chris Anastassiades (from a story Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lifeformed – Cleo Makes Contact (vol. 1) and Hearts and Minds (vol. 2)
Alien invasions are, for the most part, treated as popcorn-chomping blockbuster spectacles replete with big epic action sequences, lives in mortal and imminent danger and big stakes battles between good (us; for once) and evil (most certainly them). They do not generally have time, what with all the awe-inspiring spaceship Continue Reading
Life is space is really animated – Thoughts on Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek is serious. Very, very SERIOUS. Sure, it can be goofy at times – think “The Trouble With Tribbles” (The Original Series), “Deja Q” (The Next Generation), “Body and Soul” (Voyager) and “Our Man Bashir” (Deep Space Nine) – but mostly it is all Prime Directives, deadly “Away Missions” Continue Reading
Book review: Truganini : Journey Through the Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
History is usually looked upon very dispassionately. We see conquerors and the conquered, civilisations rise and civilisations fall, and while we know there are real people involved in all these recounted events, we don’t often pause to consider what it must have been like to be on the receiving end Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: New & emerging Aussie talent – ASHWARYA, Budjerah, BEXX, Genes, BARKAA
Today is technically Australia Day. But honestly as someone raised to recognise, call out and fight inequality, I cannot sit here and pretend like everything is okay in this country I love so much. What many people outside Australia may not know is that the 26th January is the day Continue Reading