Preview copy provided by Angry Robot Books via NetGalley – The Warrior releases 23 August. There is an enthralling expansiveness to beautifully and richly told fantasy novels, a sense of imaginative foreverness that envelops you so completely you forget that there’s a real world waiting out there to rudely break Continue Reading
Movie review: 70 is Just a Number (70 on vain numero)
Age should not really be an impediment to doing anything in life. Admittedly infirmity or limitations imposed by advancing years do play a part, but those unavoidable parts of the ageing process aside, if you’re young and vital enough to still carpe diem the hell out of things, including falling Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Action-packed new trailer and poster for Star Wars: Andor
SNAPSHOTThe Andor series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with Continue Reading
Teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds: Find out why in new Peanuts animated special, Lucy’s School + season 2 trailer for The Snoopy Show
SNAPSHOTThe Peanuts gang are anxious about starting at a new school in the Fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead, but teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds. ‘Lucy’s School’ is a love letter to teachers, and an appreciation of the impact a teacher can have on a Continue Reading
Book review: The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
Who among us doesn’t want a fairytale ending? It’s a tough ask in a world more inclined to injustice, vest self-interest and cruelty, accidental or otherwise, but that doesn’t stop us hoping that in amongst all of the hellish loose ends, there might be a definitive moment when all the Continue Reading
Movie review: Tuesday Club (Tisdagsklubben)
Popular culture is full to the reinventive brim with people forced, through all kinds of coercive circumstance, to remake their lives. Some do it willingly not, many not, but the pattern is always the same – chaos as the old is swept away and the new come crashing in, and Continue Reading
Book review: Bootstrap by Georgina Young
Having your world turned upside down is no easy thing. Even if, like Jackson Sweeney, protagonist of Georgina Young’s novel Bootstrap, seemingly the only gay in the small seen-far-better-days Aussie town of Koornang, your life is hardly worth tweeting out about. Much of the lacklustre pall of Sweeney’s spectacularly unambitious Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly festive book review redux: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
This post was originally published on 12 December 2018. There are some figures that loom so large in the public consciousness that it’s easy to feel like you know, or you can imagine, pretty much everything about them. Santa Claus is one of those figures. We owe our collective modern Continue Reading
This #ChristmasInJuly, I listened to the festive music of KT Tunstall
Generally speaking, if people hate Christmas music, they really hate it, and the idea of asking them, especially if they’re a musical artist of the standing of Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, to record any sort of Christmas music is anathema. Burn down the Christmas tree, throw the eggnog down the Continue Reading
A tantalising ton of trailers: Never Have I Ever (S3), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Blonde, Oppenheimer, A League of Their Own
Get set to spend your days and nights watching even more movies and shows – as if you aren’t doing that already! Sleep is for the streaming disinclined, right? – because the trailers keep coming, people! In fact, every single one of these five films and shows is worth the Continue Reading