(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected. Tuesday is both written 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!
Book review: The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices by Liz Foster
(courtesy Affirm Press) One of the happy lies we like to tell ourselves is that life as we have it right now is the best version of life it can be. It often isn’t and we know it deep down but either it’s too hard to change things or we Continue Reading
Welcome home, Franklin: New Snoopy: Presents special on its way
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe origin story for one of Peanuts‘ most beloved characters, the special follows Franklin as he moves to a new town and navigates new friendships. Franklin’s family is always on the move with his dad’s military job, and everywhere he goes Franklin finds support in a notebook Continue Reading
Book review: Meru (The Alloy Era #1) by S. B. Divya
(courtesy 47North) For the idealists amongst us, there is a seductive idea out there that the only way for humanity is up, and up and UP. No backward steps, no regression, no evolutionary slips down the hill from whence we came; it’s all forward towards better things and more progressive Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #101: K.Flay, Caravan Palace, Jacob Collier, Ida Just, Ariana Grande + Eurovision 2024 update!
(via Shutterstock) Welcome to the first music post of the year which is all about finding music and being changed by it. All five of these immensely talented artists or groups of artists have shown they are worth being found, marrying up lyrics that really hit home with music that Continue Reading
Movie review: Poor Things
(courtesy IMP Awards) Despite all the abundant evidence to the contrary, most people still adhere to the fairytale notion that life is orderly and predictable, a rom-com meets Hallmark card mentality that believes wholeheartedly that everything will work out just fine in the end, just believe. But of course, fervently Continue Reading
Who ya gonna … well, you know … Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire debuts full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of Continue Reading
Book review: The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) he world, it is often observed (accurately or not) into two groups – dog people or cat people. You are, it is opined one or the other, and thus shall you will for the rest of your life. Regardless of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The comedically valiant explosively avian serious fun of BOOM
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTStudents at École des Nouvelles Images created BOOM, an award-winning darkly comedic animation about a pair of birds who try to save their eggs during the eruption of a volcano in the center of their island home. All of the other birds had escaped to the water as Continue Reading
Documentary review: Epic Animal Migrations – Patagonia
(courtesy IMDb) Documentaries in our hyper-sensationalised digital age have a lot to contend with. With almost everything braying at us with unrelenting 24/7 intensity, you have to be loud and intense and a little tabloidy to cut through; fair enough in one sense – if everyone else is yelling, you Continue Reading