Diving into a Rian Johnson mystery is like being plunged, in all the best possible ways, into a maelstrom of brilliantly executed ideas, fantastically well-realised characters who brim with flaws and vigour and a storyline so robustly intricate you glory in its enticing complexity and almost clap with glee as 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: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Reading a romantic comedy is an almost sure-fire way to feel better about the world. What felt bleak now has hues of hope and vital possibility and that lingering sense you have that nothing good can come of this messy business of living suddenly feels faintly ridiculous. I mean, look Continue Reading
A tiny ton of TV trailers: The Muppets Mayhem, Florida Man and Never Have I Ever (final season)
If you’ve ever read this blog on more than one occasion, and if you have I thank you (and sorry again for all the typos), then you’ll be well aware that I am a strangely ambitious soul. Despite knowing deep down that I don’t have a hope in hell of Continue Reading
Book review: Descendant Machine by Gareth Powell
One of the biggest tricks of any massively overarching space opera premise is finding a way to deliver on it. Sure, the back blurb of the novel can sound like a thousand big and impressive elements, and hopefully some small and intimate (but emotionally powerful) human moments too, coming together Continue Reading
They’ll figure it out, maybe: Thoughts on Unstable (season 1)
There’s a moment when you’re watching the trailer for a promising sitcom, full of wry dialogue, sparkling quips and deliciously good comic timing that you hope and pray to whatever streaming gods are out there, that the resultant program will be every bit as good as its teaser taster suggests. Continue Reading
Higher. Further. Faster. Together. Galactically fun trailer lands for The Marvels
SNAPSHOTAfter the events of Ms. Marvel (2022), superheroes Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan, and Monica Rambeau begin swapping places with each other every time they use their powers, and must team up to determine why. The Marvels is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Nia DaCosta, director of the films Little Woods Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria and Belgium (Semi-final 2, part 1)
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
Technicolour future adventure: Character posters and teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2
SNAPSHOTThe Strange New Worlds team is already hyping up Season Two. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman promises that it will be “bigger and better” than Season One, while his fellow co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers describes it as “Season One on steroids.” Mount teases that Season Two will take “bigger swings” and explore even more genres than Season One Continue Reading
Book review: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Baby Ganesh Agency book 3) by Vaseem Khan
Centering a mystery series around a retired Mumbai policeman of unimpeachable honesty and integrity whose investigative sidekick happens to be a one-year-old elephant named Ganesh gifted to him by a friend by seem like an impossibly twee basis for some crime solving. But in every book of Vaseem Khan’s read Continue Reading
Flammable or inflammable? Fun teaser trailer drops for post-alien apocalypse show Mulligan
SNAPSHOTFollowing the last living humans who find themselves tasked with rebuilding civilization from scratch, Mulligan features a star-studded cast of comedic actors. Along with producer Fey who voices scientist and single mom Dr. Farrah Braun, Nat Faxon will expand his ventures into voice acting as the titular hero. Additionally, Chrissy Continue Reading