by Dave Bradley | Aug 22, 2018 | Film, Movies, Reviews
Rated (M) 2.5 stars (out of 5) As ‘Young Adult’ as ‘Young Adult’ movies get, this filming of Alexandra Bracken’s book by director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (her live-action début after two Kung Fu Pandas) is all sorts of annoying, from its awfully derivative storyline to...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Shaun Tan (Lothian) 2018, unnumbered pages, RRP $26.99 (hardback), $13.99 (eBook) The Aussie Tan won an Oscar in 2011 for his short film The Lost Thing (based upon his 2000 book) but these days works primarily as an author of children’s tomes, many of which have a...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Peter Laws (Icon) 2018, 312pp, RRP$29.99 The Bedfordshire-residing Laws is a crime novelist, a massive fan of horror in all its forms (movies, novels, all the dark and frightening stuff in real life) and, somehow, an ordained Baptist Minister, and he’s made quite a...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Viv Albertine (Faber) 2018, 292pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback) Former punk-as Slits member Albertine’s previous autobiographical work, the memorably-titled Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, was primarily about her wild...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
J.P. Delaney (Hachette Australia) 2018, 388pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback), $14.99 (eBook) Delaney (a pseudonym for an author who wants to remain mysterious for some reason) had a major hit with her/his first (apparently) psychological thriller The Girl Before last year,...