Have you ever wondered, and if not, why not, what a reboot of Murder, She Wrote would be like if Jessica Fletcher (played by the delightfully talented and now sadly departed Angela Lansbury) was a minimum-wage worker (and sometimes not even that), on the run from organised crime casino-owning thugs, 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!
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Magician’s Elephant, Tetris and John Wick: Chapter 4
As with any storytelling medium, there’s a huge diversity of narrative options in movies. That’s on vibrantly full display with today’s selection which encompasses an animated search for belonging and connection, some tense Cold War politicking bundled up with an origin story and some good old-fashioned, globetrotting shoot-em-up vengeance like Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Fairlady (Volume 1) by Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni and Marissa Louise
Postmodern storytelling, that eclectic mixing of genres that characterises so much modern narrative activity, can really pay off in the right dividends. Far from being gimmicky, adroit bringing together of seemingly disparate elements can work spectacularly well as novel Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree made hilariously and affectingly clear Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
If you were to believe popular culture, and it’s chock full of alluringly escapist ideas about how life should be so why the hell wouldn’t you, you can experience the most resoundingly destructive romantic grief, and then not much later, by dint of a meet-cute, the exchange of a few Continue Reading
Between midlife crisis and full blown meltdown … and an angry goose: Lucky Hank drops first full trailer
SNAPSHOTLucky Hank is a mid-life crisis tale set at Railton College, told in the first person by William Henry “Hank” Devereaux, Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chair of the English department in a badly underfunded college in a working-class American town. His discontent is rooted in unresolved issues with his father, Continue Reading
Movie review: Spoiler Alert
Traditionally endings are not meant to precede the beginning and middle of the story. It makes sense – starting off on the finish line can rob a story of the narrative momentum built up in the first two acts of its emotional power and storytelling impact, and leave you feeling Continue Reading
Book review: A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
Death, to our never-ending despair and ever-present grief, is a very final thing. That’s not necessarily a commentary on life-after-death or any of the philosophical or religious beliefs that evoke ideas of what happens to our supposedly incorruptible souls; it’s more a resigned acknowledgement that when somebody passes away, that’s Continue Reading
Keep believing … Ted Lasso drops a heartfelt teaser trailer for its third season
SNAPSHOTPer the official logline, the 12-episode third season of Ted Lasso will follow the newly promoted AFC Richmond, which faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League, while Nate, now hailed as the “wonder kid,” has gone to work for Rupert at West Ham United. In Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and The Flash
I don’t watch sport as a rule and even though it is sporting juggernaut that bestrides the globe, that included ignoring the Superbowl (save for Rihanna who was red hot fabulous!). However, that exclusion of that epic sporting event from my life did not include the trailers release during the Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day book review: Nobody Puts Romcom in the Corner by Kathryn Freeman
Who of us, at least those with a love for watching films about people falling in love, hasn’t wished they could step into the frames of their favourite romantic comedy? They are usually so perfectly put together, so wonderfully alive with romantic possibility and eventually, after many twists and turns, Continue Reading