In general, movies have an abiding loud of love wrought in big, loud, bold movements, all meet-cutes and happenstance and colour and joy in letters that stretch to the candy-coloured heavens in neon-lit tones befitting something that is, most people would agree, WONDERFUL. And yes, while, falling in love and 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: Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer
There is something thrilling about a writer who is so acrobatic in their writing style and so skilled at their craft that they can handle a number of ideas and genre leaps in the one novel and never have it feel for a second like it’s a literary Frankenstein. Such Continue Reading
The final voyage begins: Trailer drops for the third TNG-heavy season of Picard
SNAPSHOTPicard features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Buckhead by Shobo Coker and George Kambadais
We demand a lot from our storytelling. Not consciously of course (some notable extremes of fandom aside), but somewhere in that liminal space where unexamined thought and emotional need intersect, we crave a story that will enliven our sometimes dreary lives, that will seem inexpressively epic but accessibly intimate, and Continue Reading
“They’re probably out looking for you right now” … Festive rom-com Falling For Christmas heartwarmingly asks if you really want to be found
SNAPSHOTA newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress (Lindsay Lohan) gets into a bad skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas. Falling for Christmas is directed by American Continue Reading
More tales of fire and blood: House of the Dragon (S1, E4-6) review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND POWER HUNGRY REGRET … As an exploration of how power, both the attaining of it or its oft damning pursuit, corrupts, you can’t go past the quietly searing excoriation of House of the Dragon, with episodes four to six of its first season Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: Great lockdown videos from Jessie Ware, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Jessy Lanza, Tove Lo + SOFI TUKKER … and a Eurovision 2023 update too!
Let’s face it – the two years when the COVID pandemic was its ragingly worst and lockdowns were everywhere were TOUGH. Really TOUGH. Even if you liked being home and reading and streaming and cosying up to those you love (like this blogger), there were times, many times, when it Continue Reading
Movie review: I Used To Be Famous
There is a tendency for some people to react to stories that look, and it’s the word “look” that’s key here, like everything else that’s ever gone before, like they are the worst possible form of creativity, trading in tired clichés and tropes with nary an original thought to their Continue Reading
Book review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
You know that deeply unsettling sense you sometimes get when you’re deep in the forest or bush, or walking past it, where it feels like someone is watching you? It’s a cloyingly unnerving sense that you are not alone, egged on by flashes of movement you swear you see in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Enola Holmes 2, They Cloned Tyrone and A Chance Encounter + Behind the craft featurette for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix has just staged its annual big reveal event tudum – the name comes, so says engadget, is “named after the sound that plays alongside the Netflix logo whenever you start watching something on the service” – and among the many shows and movies that got a big unveil or Continue Reading