Suzume – Anime Movie Review
I’ve heard critics say, “Can Makoto Shinkai write only one movie?”, and I’d say this is pretty much him in a nutshell.
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Devil of the Deep by Falencia Jean-Francois
Publish date: Tuesday 7th April 2026 Devil of the Deep is a swashbuckling, mermaid fantasy which dives into cult behaviour, trust themes and complex relationships. Found family and betrayal feature heavily throughout. My first encounter with this book was the long list of trigger warnings: Graphic violence, execution, child death, child abuse, implied paedophilia, transphobia,…
The Coast is Clear – Picture Book Review
It’s been a while since I explored a story via a mirror poem. Nice nostalgia! The sounds were so relaxing to listen to, too.
Elemental – Movie Review
Similar to a lot of movies, but so what if it is? Does Pixar always have to drop a masterpiece?
Deep Night: The Two of Us (2024) – GL (TV) Drama Review
‘The Two Of Us’ is a side story to the main series ‘Deep Night‘, which centers around three BL couples and a night club. There was one GL side couple, Freya and Meiji, who now got their own mini series. It plays parallel to ‘Deep Night‘ – explains how they got together and has a…
HallowSCREAM 2023 Results
During this past October, I set out on Pending Plays Instagram page to determine who our communities favourite horror movie killer was. We now have our WINNER!
The Snake Who Loved a Sparrow – Manga Review
Plot: Snakeman saves sparrowman from boars, but sparrowman calls snakeman evil and they part ways. Upon meeting again, they accidentally lose their clothes, sparrowman sees snakeman’s genitalia and is so mesmerized by it that he cannot help himself but grope him. Snakeman has never been touched in that way, but it felt kinda good, so…
Book Guild – July 2024 Challenge
July is disability pride & awareness month, therefore: Theme: disability Read and review anything that’s a book – novels, comics, mangas, graphic novels, poem collections, scripts, short stories, etc. (Audiobooks count too, ofc!) It doesn’t matter what type of disability – physical or mental – is featured, or to what degree! Though, if you can,…
Book Guild – August 2026
August is summer time for most, not just on the northern hemisphere thanks to the climate crisis, yay. And summer time is often associated with …
An Evening with Final Fantasy VII’s Yoshinori Kitase
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Producer, Yoshinori Kitase, reflects on the development of games over the last 27 years since the original Final Fantasy VII was released.