Book Review: Life Will Be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler

By her own admission, this is the deepest writing that Chelsea Handler has done. And you can tell. You can feel it. In her memoir, Life Will Be the Death of Me,... Read More...

Tales of the City review: A delightful, absorbing series with a bountiful heart

Tales of the City has rose tinted glasses on. It has a slow, summer quality upon its arrival, drifting with a sweet smile and a warm embrace into your life. In ... Read More...

Last Summer Review

Last Summer is a fragment of time, both in length at 97 minutes and in the lives of the boys who are the focus of this film. Davy (Noa Thomas), Iwan (Gruffydd W... Read More...

Book Review: Home Girl by Alex Wheatle

Home Girl is a novel with a clear voice and perspective. It’s the story of a teenage girl, Naomi Brisset, who is struggling in the foster care system. Bouncing ... Read More...

What/If review: A soapy drama that struggles to keep the right momentum

Netflix’s What/If is a soapy drama from the creators of Revenge and it has the same captivation: it's an interesting premise but not entirely able to keep the r... Read More...

The Society season 1 review: A teen drama that doesn’t completely tread the same old tropes

Netflix continues to give the people what they want, if those people (like me) want a good speculative fiction mystery or a teen drama that doesn't completely t... Read More...

Book Review: X-Men – The Dark Phoenix Saga Prose Novel by Stuart Moore

Novelisations are hard to get right, even more so when the original source material is so well known. Stuart Moore does a great job of tackling the much-loved t... Read More...

Book Review: How To Find Home by Mahsuda Snaith

Sometimes the best books are the ones that challenge you, that encourage you to readjust and re-examine yourself while reading them. How To Find Home will do th... Read More...

Author Q&A: Cynthia So discusses the Proud anthology, her short story The Phoenix’s Fault, LGBTQ+ diversity and Asian culture in literature

Proud is a collection of stories and artworks from various creatives, all on the theme of Proud and what it means for the LGBTQ+ people who have contributed to ... Read More...

Book Review: Emily Eternal by M. G. Wheaton

Emily Eternal is an intriguing, engaging and cinematic book. Rather than easily being identified as sci-fi, it lives up to the broader categorisation of specula... Read More...

Book Review: Firefly – The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove

Firefly was a short lived TV series that, in part due to the Joss Whedon effect, became a cult series. It has spanned numerous iterations, including a movie, Se... Read More...

TV Review: Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots

ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Please do not read this or watch the show if you're triggered by: physical abuse, sexual assault, violence and/or gore.   Firstly, ... Read More...