(courtesy IMDb) Egos and love are all heavily in the mix in Johann Dionnet’s delightful French romcom, Rodrigue in Love (Avignon), which sees Stéphane (Baptiste Lecaplain), a frustrated but ambitious actor who wants to be known for far more than regional theatrical productions try to lie his way into the Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty
(courtesy Hachette Australia) If the wondrously good Emily Wilde trilogy of books by Heather Fawcett didn’t convince you that fairies aka faeries were a whole lot of malevolently inconsistent bad news, and nothing like their Disneyfied modern image of light and flittery loveliness, then get ready for the similarly superlative Continue Reading
“We’re stronger together.” Trailer drops for unpredictable animated comedy Swapped
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSwapped is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Academy Award winner Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple). When these two natural sworn enemies of The Valley suddenly swap bodies, they must team up, while walking in each other’s Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: Cinder House by Freya Marske
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Retellings of classic tales are often quite illuminating, revealing aspects of the original story that simply didn’t register because of the familiarity attached to their ubiquitous status. We become so used to the beats and tropes of the story, to the well-known elements that define it, Continue Reading
Review of the rest : Shrinking S3, E7-11
(courtesy IMP Awards) Streaming riddle me this: when is a series finale not a series finale? When it’s the final episode of the third season of Shrinking which was originally scoped out for three seasons until Apple came a-calling again, says the show’s creator creator, and asked whether there might Continue Reading
Movie review: Cycle of Time (C’était mieux demain) #AFFF26
(courtesy IMDb) In every way that matters to the social mores of 1958, Hélène and Michel Dupuis (Elsa Zylberstein and Didier Bourdon respectively) are a typical, happy married couple, each operating within their narrow, heavily-proscribed lanes. Hélène, immaculately displayed in tightly fashionable, figure hugging dresses and with a not a Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: Fathomfolk (The Drowned World Duology, Book 1) by Eliza Chan
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Imagination is the power source behind any great fantasy novel but as anyone who has read many books in the genre will attest, not all imaginative minds are created equal. Having just finished the gloriously clever storytelling that is Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan, it is well and Continue Reading
Movie trailer double: Captain Tsunami and Remarkably Bright Creatures
Ah, movies I love you. Being able to sit back in the dark of a cinema, and yes, while I appreciate the convenience of streaming as a catch-up device, my heart still very much sits with going and joining fellow moviegoers in a public space. These two films looks delightful Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Hiding away from the world, even if it’s in plain sight, is something that anyone who has undergone trauma is very adept at doing. You may long for happy-ever-afters and a community to call your own and a life that’s buoyant and free but the truth of Continue Reading
How does the audition of a lifetime go? Thoughts on Bait
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have so much as stepped out of your house at any point in your life, and the odds are good you have, you will have definitely come into contact with the socially toxic tendrils of a narcissist. You know the type – people who overwhelm Continue Reading