(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTRide or Die is a comedy series following the best friends Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) and Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (Book 4): A Place Between by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) I cannot begin to express how much I’d love the storytelling brilliance and imaginative bravery of Tim Probert’s darkly warm and beautiful Lightfall series. Now four instalments in with the release of Lightfall: A Place Between, which follows from The Girl and the Galdurian (book #1), Continue Reading
“Three makes it a murder mystery!” Is there a killer Among Us?
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAmong Us follows a premise similar to that of the original video game from 2018. A crew team aboard the spaceship The Skeld discovers there is an alien shapeshifter who plans to cause chaos, sabotage the ship, and kill each member. Thus, the Crewmates must find out Continue Reading
It’s coming in HOT! Ice Age: Boiling Point fries up a sizzlingly funny teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ice Age: Boiling Point is an upcoming American animated adventure comedy film directed by John C. Donkin. It is the sixth main installment in the Ice Age film series following Collision Course (2016), and the seventh Ice Age feature film overall. The film features Ray Romano, Denis Continue Reading
Deep TBR June book review: Love Overdue by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) Romcom detractors, and honestly who stole your rose-eyed, happily romantic hearts and replaced with them stones, will tell you that once you’ve read one story in the story, you’ve read them all. But that dismissive assessment of an entire genre completely ignored the fact that Continue Reading
Movie review: Masters of the Universe
(courtesy IMP Awards) The 21st century is not exactly a laughfest of goofy silliness. That’s been obvious for quite some time but when you compare it to the ’70s and ’80s when all kinds of fabulous strangeness was not only play but exuberantly celebrated, it feels very grim and serious Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #137: Emei, METTE, MARIS, Scratching + Holly Humberstone
(via Shutterstock) Can a danceable song really speak to your heart? Damn straight it can and here are five artists who really give substance to the idea that your music can have really bounce and vibrancy to it and yet have you feeling all of the deep and sometimes painful Continue Reading
You think your last move was bad? Wait ’til you see the one in The End of Oak Street
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading
Latest releases May book review: John of John by Douglas Stuart
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There’s a real joy to reading a novel by someone who wields their words not simply with artistry but with a sense of deeply affecting humanity. It’s easy enough if you’re a masterful writer, to make sentences and paragraphs and chapters that sing with the sparkling Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading