(courtesy Italian Film Festival 2025 / Palace Cinemas) In the whimsically storied realm of rom-coms, first dates are usually cutely delightful or awkwardly awful; either extreme works for establishing, and yes, we all know what’s coming, that this couple is MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. It’s obvious and lacking nuance but 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!
The short and the short of it: The hilarious wrath of ice cream denied in El Terror
(courtesy Vimeo (c) Franco) SNAPSHOTIn the wild Sonoran desert, the greatest criminal of the Far-West suffers the wrath of a four years old child after stealing her ice cream cone. (courtesy Vimeo (c) Franco) I absolutely adore this animated short film. Discovered by disappearing one of Vimeo’s beautifully curated rabbit Continue Reading
Spooky minds present … Thoughts on Haunted Hotel
(courtesy IMP Awards) It would be fair to say that if you had any choice in the matter, that you would not stay at the Undervale Hotel. Located somewhere in update New York, the short-term lodging at the heart of Matt Roller’s Haunted Hotel should be the establishment of choice Continue Reading
Book review: Anxious Hearts by Guy Sigley
(courtesy Echo publishing) When you are consumed by anxiety, the kind that eats you alive in endlessly exhausting ways and turns even the simplest of moments into existential hell, can there even be room for love? That’s the question that consumes lifelong friends Kelly O’Mara and Finn aka Finely Walsh,protagonists Continue Reading
CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The vivaciously funny festive joy of Christmas Karma
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTAn early Xmas gift… Christmas Karma sees ones of the greatest novels – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – transformed into a joyous, colourful, feel-good Christmas musical that celebrates modern-day London and all of its communities and cultures. Told from Chadha’s unique point of view and in Continue Reading
Movie review: Superman
(courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing that I have never truly liked about superhero films, it’s how unrelatably inhuman so many of these heroes of our age seem to be. Oh, they try to make them seem like one of us, and to some extent they succeed, but even Continue Reading
Frankenstein with a delightful twist … trailer drops for adaptation of beloved book series (and graphic novel), Stitch Head
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHigh above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin, in a castle laboratory, the maddest of all mad professors brings monstrous creations to (almost) life… and then promptly forgets all about them. So, who runs the castle? Who keeps the monsters in line, so the townsfolk don’t form Continue Reading
Book review: The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) World-building is everything when it comes to science fiction aka sci-fi and one writer who absolutely excels in this department is Adrian Tchaikovsky, who stands as one of the genre’s most talented writers of the moment. His ability to conjure up a sense of a plant Continue Reading
CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The Secret Mistletoe Promise (The Secret Bookshop, Book 2) by Cressida McLaughlin
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) SNAPSHOTIs a new beginning waiting for her this Christmas? When Imogen leaves her fiancé at the altar and escapes to her grandmother’s cottage by the sea, the only thing she wants to do is disappear. But in a village curious about their new arrival, Imogen finds Continue Reading
Things seem different … Thoughts on Wednesday season 2 part 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) The Addams Family has always been popular because everyone comes as a unit. They are tight, love each other and have each other’s backs as the members of the one kooky tribe, and while like any loving family, they clash and fracture at times, they always have Continue Reading