SNAPSHOTInspired by true events, New Regency & Film4’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the movie adaptation of the hit musical. Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a “real” career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for Continue Reading
Singing, dancing and colourful darkness: The bright shadows of Centaurland
If you’re like Horse (Kimiko Glenn), and honestly who of us hasn’t felt at times like a warhorse magically transported from a land near-destroyed by neverending conflict to a place full of colour, vibrancy and magical creatures (only all the time, right?), then you might find being in Centaurworld just Continue Reading
Movie review: Vivo
There is a joyous vivacity that bursts out of every last musical and narrative pore in Vivo, an animated triumph that is fuelled by the wondrous musical talent of Lin Manuel-Miranda, a story that deftly balances the very silly and the immensely heartfelt and an animation style as apt to Continue Reading
You don’t need a TARDIS! Take a trip back in time with this mini-documentary showing cities in the 1890s
SNAPSHOTThe start of motion pictures, late 1890’s. Rare film of cities, towns and countries. High-quality remastered prints from the Lumiere archives and EYE Film Museum. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Getting out and about at the moment is a challenge for a great many people with the Delta strain of COVID-19 Continue Reading
Book review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
It is one thing to love a book; quite another to fall so headlong in love with it that reading it feels like you’ve come home. In the latter scenario, it’s as if this was the book you were always meant to read, one that will stay in your heart Continue Reading
“Terrifying and deadly”: New Gareth L. Powell’s new series Stars and Bones promises epic space opera
SNAPSHOTSeventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious Continue Reading
Book review: Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
Some bonds can never be broken it seems. In the mysterious perfection of Catriona Silbey’s Meet Me in Another Life, we are given devastatingly powerful insight into how some connections are so strong and unyielding that they persist in the face of every challenge or obstacle they encounter. To begin Continue Reading
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings … now with added posters + featurette
SNAPSHOTMarvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization. The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #53: Yves Tumor, Jelani Aryeh, Ethan Fields, Maddie Ross, TIMMS + #Eurovision update!
Life comes in all kinds of weird emotional shapes and sizes. There’s the moments of exquisite sorrow and heartbreak which bend you so far out of shape you wonder if you’ll ever bounce back to who you were ever again. Then there, thankfully for who can take that much pretzeling Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Goodbye humanity in The Desert
SNAPSHOTIn a future where humanity has abandoned its home planet—or perhaps gone entirely extinct, as bits of atomic-bomb imagery suggest—robots rule, but it’s a lonely and strange existence. They’re drawn to things that remind them of the past, like libraries and TV sets, but also feel more primal urges, like Continue Reading