(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) A good, no, great crime thriller is always something to be savoured, enjoyed and thereafter, remembered. But for that to happen you need an author who understands that the crime is not the only thing and that for any of it to impact beyond the Continue Reading
Tiny ton of TV and movie trailers 10/26: Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, 12 12 12, Minimum Wage + The Child
(via Shutterstock) The tsunami of viewing possibilities continues, and while all this endless choice used to alarm and unnerve me because how could I possibility get to it all, now I see it as a TBW (To Be Watched) menu of possibility that’s exciting because who knows what I’ll watch Continue Reading
New releases October book review: People Skills by Nina Kenwood
(courtesy Text Publishing) In a world full of hatred, bigotry, violent attacks and simmering intimidation, and that’s on the good days, having somewhere to escape to that also feels like it might just exist in the real world too is an incalculable joy. While romcoms get a lot of stick Continue Reading
Christmas movie preview: The Christmas Switch, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, Guarding Stars + In a Holidaze
(via Shutterstock) These trailers may be previews of Christmas Still to Come but the year is racing by and soon and very soon they will part of Christmas present. I am especially thrilled to have a new Nordic festive film to watch and while lay on the saccharine sweetness, I Continue Reading
Catch-up movie review: Avatar: Fire and Ash aka Avatar 3
(courtesy IMP Awards) Reviewing a major Hollywood release almost a year after its initial release might seem like an oddly delayed thing to do in our hyper immediate world where the zeitgeist is super focused on something one day and curiously uninterested the next. Truth be told, the delay in Continue Reading
Christmas preview: Bob’s Burgers and the biggest holiday snow fort of all time
(courtesy IMDb (c) 20th Television) SNAPSHOTIn “On the Fort Day of Christmas”, a record-breaking Christmas snowstorm means one thing to the Belcher kids — a record-breaking Christmas snow fort. (courtesy Animation Magazine) I fear with Bob’s Burgers that the TV horse has bolted. For me, at least. Kicking off in Continue Reading
New releases October book review: Taipei Story by Rebecca F. Kuang
(courtesy The Borough Press) Finding your place in the world is no easy thing. It’s a seemingly impossible task made all the more complex and challenging when you are under a huge amount of pressure, external or self-imposed, or sometimes if you are truly unlucky, both, to be a particular Continue Reading
Happy Hell-o-ween: Family Guy Halloween special 2026 review
(courtesy IMDb (c) Hulu/Disney+) Who of us hasn’t at some time declared that their life is hell? Yep, I see your raised hands – all of us in fact have uttered those words at some point; it’s a common lament, one that thankfully with no fire, little brimstone and no Continue Reading
Believe again: Thoughts on Ted Lasso season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revivals are, in the land of TV and streaming at least, often bittersweet affairs. On one hand, it is a joy and delight with an added dose of a fizzy sense of euphoric reunion to be back with characters you know and love and were sorrowfully ripped Continue Reading
Reviving a family culinary legacy: Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook
(courtesy AppleTV) SNAPSHOTThe eight-episode series follows Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, on a cross-country culinary road trip as she attempts to revive her family’s beloved Chinese restaurant. Her family ran Lum’s, the iconic Cantonese restaurant in Flushing, New York. Nora inherited the family legacy. The cooking skills? Those still need work. Continue Reading