Any journey into the world of Star Wars is a good one. Granted some of the delivery may not be the best at times but overall the franchise has a knack for crafting beguiling tales full of characters who, by virtue of being out in space, have a certain exotically Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Well hello Admiral Ackbar! Find out where some of Star Wars most fantastical creatures are born #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
SNAPSHOTDo you know where Star Wars most Fantastical creatures are born? Well a lot of its weirdest and most wonderful characters come to life in a South London workshop and Gustav Hogan is the man behind them…Gustav’s been making monsters for three decades and he’s taking a look back at his creations. Continue Reading
Movie review: A Good Person
Grief is a greatly misunderstood state of being. In many movies and TV shows, it almost comes across as a minor inconvenience, a speed bump on the freeway of life, which slows you down and interrupts the natural flow of things, and which, once bested or resolved, is left behind Continue Reading
Book review: Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
While we all love an entertaining meet-cute of two people who we know are destined together forever after having never known each other existed – the sense of romantic fate and destiny is palpably sublime and awww-worthy – there’s also something deliciously enticing about a couple who have been friends Continue Reading
Sitcom round-up 3: Schmigadoon! S2 (E1-5) and The Big Door Prize (S1, E5-7)
Schmigadoon! (S2, E1-4) After the frothy small town warmth and romance, with some ne’er-do-well plotting in there too of course, of season one of Schmigadoon! (a delightful send-up of the musical film Brigadoon, the fondly-realised homage to musicals return with a second season that takes a decidedly darker turn. Now Continue Reading
Weekday character poster art: Get to know the fowl cast from Chicken Run – Dawn of the Nugget
SNAPSHOTHaving pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s English farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back Continue Reading
Book review: The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley
It is possible to find yourself in the most banal of circumstances, but the truth is, most of the big epiphanic moments usually only take place when you’re plucked out of your day-to-day existence and thrust, whether by accident or design, into somewhere wholly and extraordinarily different. For most of Continue Reading
Imagine a place where wishes come true … Disney drops trailer and poster for Wish
SNAPSHOTIn Disney Animation’s Wish, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the Continue Reading
Shoot for the moon: Thoughts on Hello Tomorrow!
People, by and large, are not great fans of reality. Oh, we’re stuck right in the middle of it, like a ’50s movie serial character stuck in quicksand at a cliffhanger moment, but we don’t much like it; while we watch epic love and thrilling action and huge twists and Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 6 – Iceland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, San Marino and Slovenia (Semi-final 2, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading