(courtesy IMP Awards) The really great animated films, the one that capture your heart and delight the eyes, are the ones that give you something to really connect to and which make you feel like you’ve come home. Yes, home. That might seem like an odd thing to say about 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!
Short film review: The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Talk about a marriage made in storytelling heaven. The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar brings together the Roald Dahl story which is part of a 1977 short story collection by the author entitled The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More – the book also Continue Reading
Book review: The Scourge Between the Stars by Ness Brown
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Accomplished horror preys, and yes that word is wholly intentional, as much on our fear of what will happen, of what lurks in the dark or unseen realms just out of perception as it does on what actually comes to pass. It’s the dread, the sickening Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: I Hate Fairyland – Volume 5: Gert’s Inferno
(courtesy Image Comics) Welcome back MUFFIN FLUFFERS! That’s the aggressively return encouragement we’re given on the back cover blurb and if you were afraid that you can’t go back to back to something as sublimely and manically perfect as I Hate Fairyland‘s first series of stories, then think again because Continue Reading
Movie review: Killers of the Flower Moon
(courtesy IMP Awards) Though people are apt to embrace the past with its proven ability to soothe with nostalgia and to warm with sweet memories, they are less inclined to wade into its sometimes murky waters when there is an accounting to be made. Especially when such an accounting lays Continue Reading
#Christmas preview book review: The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary
(courtesy Hachette Australia) This will come as a news to absolutely no one but the world is not exactly full of moments which end neatly and perfectly and with everything tied in a bright red bow. It’s also not fantastically good at giving people the happy endings they deserve, and Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The magical chocolatey wonder of Wonka
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #95: Calum Scott, Yuna, Lauren Mayberry, Fujii Kaze + Matilda Mann
(photo by Te NGuyen on Unsplash) Love may indeed make the world go around but it also has a profoundly impressive influence on the types of songs we get to hear. Case in point are these five gems from artists who know their way around a beautiful song, forging intimate Continue Reading
Book review: Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
(courtesy Macmillan Publishers) Fiction is, strictly speaking, the stuff of make believe and imagination, of dreamt up people and not even a shred of coincidence between people living and those who have most certainly shuffled off this mortal coil. But the truth is, and any writer will tell you, that Continue Reading
Movie review: Eight Mountains #IFF23
(courtesy IMP Awards) At one key point in this quietly immersive but immensely emotionally powerful film, one of the two men, Pietro aka Berio (Luca Marinelli), whose lifelong friendship forms the beating hear of Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains) admits that he and his bestie Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) are Continue Reading