SNAPSHOTBRIAR [is] a brand new four-issue limited comic book series from Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body, Iron Man, Halt and Catch Fire), rising artist Germán García (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land), and colorist Matheus Lopes (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) that 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!
Is it witch-ful thinking? No, you will gravely (and hilariously) scared when you watch Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular!
The Looney Tunes celebrate Halloween! Daffy and Porky take a dear friend to a final resting place. Witch Hazel chases down an ingredient for her spell. Sylvester finds a suspicious motel, and Bugs meets a mummy. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) HBO Max) Halloween is usually all for really scary stuff. Continue Reading
Book review: The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
Beth O’Leary has proven herself to be one of those talented authors that you can depend on to deliver highly readable books that are both accessibly escapist and yet which come with ready wit and the meat substance of the human experience folded in. Her novels to date such The Continue Reading
Never Have I Ever S4 sneak peek: Does Devi have her work cut out for her?
It’s true – the dust has barely settled on Never Have I Ever season 3 (which was excellent by the way) and yet we have talk already of season 4. Why so soon, you might wonder? (Not that any of us are complaining about Never I Have Ever goodness coming Continue Reading
The journey continues: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power (S1, E3-5) review
There’s a languid lusciousness to The Rings of Power which, if it was the only thing assessed by an audience when watching the show, might lead them to suspect the show is all thoughtful prettiness and not much else. Certainly there are moments of breathtaking beauty such as when Galadriel Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #74: Franc Moody, Magdalena Bay, Dora Jar, Zella Day, Michael Kiwanuka +new ABBA lyric video “Fernando”
We race here! We race there! We tell ourselves we are giving life its introspective due but are we really when we rarely stop to even breathe? Truth is, we often don’t out the brakes on long enough to ruminate about life, but thankfully a number of very talented and Continue Reading
Book review: Loveland by Robert Lukins
The ugliness of life is rarely beautiful but in the hands of masterful Australian writer Robert Lukins, it is realised in ways that are lyrically poetic, mesmerisingly powerful and profoundly moving. Loveland is a novel that carries a title that suggests the most beautiful things in life all embodied in Continue Reading
Save who you can: The haunting apolcayptic horror of The Last of Us (trailer)
To be honest, after the disqueting, semi-apocalyptic weirdness of the COVID pandemic, my appetite for journeys into the darker side of humanity’s soul, and the cataclysmically devastating way it affects the world around us, has diminished significantly. Strangely during the lockdown height of the pandemic, when it psycholigically felt like Continue Reading
One more happy ending: Farewell and thank you to Grace and Frankie (S7, E 5-16)
Saying goodbye to anyone is hard, especially when it marks the end of a long, winding and very happy road, one you’re unlikely walk again. It’s a peculiar kind of melancholy that acknowledge good times have been had but that they’re now sadly over, and it applies almost as much Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes
SNAPSHOTFor Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow Continue Reading