(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) The world can be divided in any number of interesting ways but for the purposes of this review, let’s just say that there are those who use pop culture as an amusing, sometimes comforting diversion and those, who for thoroughly understandable reasons (reality sucks), use 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!
Movie review: Elemental
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are paradoxical creatures when it comes to watched entertainment. We want to both escape into places so wildly different and vibrantly escapist that the humdrum of the day-to-day world fades to the lingering whispers of a dull roar but we want to find something in all Continue Reading
Book review: Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton
(courtesy Hachette Australia) We are all products of our past and present. That might seem self-evident and startling obvious, but for all its lived veracity, the truth is that we often struggle to bridge the two or to fully understand and live out how the past impacts on the current Continue Reading
They did what?! Yup, They Cloned Tyrone (poster + trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of animated trailers: Elio, Nimona and Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Silly
(via Shutterstock) As an artform, animation promises so much and often delivers even more. Not constrained by the bounds of physics or probability, animated creations can tell all kinds of unlikely and heartfelt stories, fuelled by vibrant imagination and clever inventiveness, and immerse us in worlds we might never have Continue Reading
Peace out, virgins! Thoughts on Never Have I Ever season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are a curious concoction. We spend out the growing up part of our lives looking forward to the adult part of being alive, convinced that this transition will be the thing that defines and makes us, that will confirm that everything we’ve done up to that Continue Reading
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? (No, not you, Dug!) Carl’s Date short gets a trailer
(courtesy Twitter (c) Pixar / Disney) SNAPSHOTThis year, Pixar Animation Studios resumes the magical moviegoing tradition of pairing their feature film with an animated short—like 2018’s Oscar®-winning Bao that accompanied Incredibles 2 in theaters [sic]. Releasing in front of Elemental is a new short that catches up with Carl Fredricksen Continue Reading
Book review: Infinity Gate (The Pandominion Book 1) by M. R. Carey
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Talk of the multiverse is everywhere these days. It’s partly based on reports of new and emerging science but it’s driven, you have to suspect, by the fact that our own world is diving headfirst, driven by inaction over climate change and extreme political machinations, into the Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(courtesy IMP Awards) Watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, it’s easy to use how it could have all gone very wrong. This is a film that has the bravura and escapist blockbuster fun Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, but which also goes dark, very Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Out of time adventures continue with Paper Girls V 3 & 4 by Brian K. Vaughan (writer) and Cliff Chiang (artist)
And this, ladies and gentlemen and non-binary figures from an indeterminate future, is why we can’t have nice things. Specifically, time travel. Almost from the moment Qanta Braunstein, born on the very auspicious day of 25 November 2016 – it’s the birth day, if not year, of this reviewer and Continue Reading