(courtesy Penguin Random House) There is something deliciously liberating, no doubt for the creator every bit as much as the reader, of a premise being seized by the lapels with alacrity and enthusiasm and taken to some narratively imaginative and epic but emotionally intimate places. It’s rare that two play 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!
True love of a most piratical kind: Our Flag Means Death S2 teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… the new season will continue to follow the tumultuous romance between pirates Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), both of whom are kinda sorta based on their real-life counterparts. Things didn’t end so well in the first season, so there’s going to be plenty Continue Reading
Old flames reconnect in Meg Ryan rom-com What Happens Later
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo ex lovers, Bill (David Duchovny) and Willa (Meg Ryan) get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as Continue Reading
Movie review: Theater Camp
(courtesy IMP Awards) Mockumentaries are curious beasts. On the one hand, they give creators a golden opportunity to skewer a whole herd of sacred cows purely by positioning a person in a situation that is so eerily close to what it is in real life that telling the difference between Continue Reading
Book review: A House For Alice by Diana Evans
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever had an existentially restless moment in your life, and who of course hasn’t (whether we consciously acknowledge it or not), and wondered where it is that you truly belong, you will find with which to deeply identify in Diana Evans’ beautiful novel, Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Shortcomings, A Fluorescent Sky, Landscape With Invisible Hand, Grey Matter + Fremont
(Photo by Meg Boulden on Unsplash) There are times, and granted they are few, where I begin to tire of going to the cinema, feeling as if I have watched too many films and gone out too many nights after work and that I should just rest up and forgo Continue Reading
COMING UP! Streaming gets a boost with Frasier reboot, Still Up and Our Flag Means Death S2
(Photo by Sindy Süßengut on Unsplash) So much shows to watch! That could become a source of stress and let’s be honest, it often does, or it could be viewed, much as a book-laden TBR should be, as an opportunity for great storytelling in which to lose yourself. This reviewer Continue Reading
War comes to every world: Rebel Moon releases official teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes Rebel Moon, an epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Continue Reading
Show the world what love is made of: Thoughts on Heartstopper season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you were fortunate to grow up as an integral member of a mainstream social group, then you will be well acquainted with how good it is to feel like you truly belong somewhere. But if, like many of the characters in Alice Oseman’s wondrously good Heartstopper Continue Reading
To understand life, we must go back to the beginning: Life on our Planet teaser trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThis is the story of life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet, yet what we see is just a snapshot in time — 99% of earth’s inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The Continue Reading