Fun and adventure! Together these gloriously intoxicating things make life feel a whole lot less banal, excitingly more possible and thrillingly exciting in a way that commuting to work and paying your taxes simple does not. Thankfully while real life may not always have them in multitudinous abundance, TV/streaming does, 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!
Movie review: The Perfect Dinner (La cena perfetta) #IFF22
Redemption is never an easy thing to achieve. Sure, religions chuck it around like luminously promising confetti and self-help coaches guarantee it’s but a mantra and a positive attitude away, and while they are all very compelling and attractive options that attract a great deal of attention and devotion, the Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
SNAPSHOTAbandoned by his father as a small child, Sir Gareth Inglis has grown up prickly, cold, and well-used to disappointment. Even so, he longs for a connection, falling headfirst into a passionate anonymous affair that’s over almost as quickly as it began. Bitter at the sudden rejection, Gareth has little Continue Reading
Still Kringle and ready to jingle: The Santa Clauses series explores a changing of the reins
SNAPSHOTScott Calvin is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s starting to lose a step in his Santa duties, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially two sons, one that Continue Reading
Book review: The Shattered Skies (The Cruel Stars trilogy 2) by John Birmingham
If our current day and age has taught us anything, beyond of course cementing the realisation that the world is an inherently selfish place, it is that fascists and those who inhabit the murderously bleak extremes of the human experience never really go away. Oh, but if they had only Continue Reading
Movie review: The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin)
No one should ever mistake quietness for lack of presence or emotional power. Case in manifestly resonant point is the 1981-set The Quiet Girl, written and directed by Colm Bairéad, which is matches the titular mood in just about every possible way – slow, thoughtful exchanges between characters, none of Continue Reading
Wrapping things up: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building (S2, E7-10)
With the word “murders” in the title, it’s fair to expect that Only Murders in the Building will spend a reasonable amount of its narrative getting its Agatha Christie in the 21st century on. And it does, in ways that enthrall and delight and in ways which have more than Continue Reading
New Star Wars trailers there are: The Mandalorian (S3) and final Andor trailer
I’m fairly certain there will never not be a time when a new Star Wars trailer, whether it’s for a movie or a TV/streaming show, doesn’t fill me with all kinds of anticipatory thrill. Ever since I saw A Hew Hope, then just good old Star Wars in a small Continue Reading
Book review: Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave
Book blurbs are interesting things. They are there clearly to sell the book by hooking us with an idea of who the protagonist is or where the book may lead us or how its themes may make us think or feel, and they are, by and large, reasonably good at Continue Reading
The next big thing arrives: Thoughts on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (S1, E 1-4)
Superheroes are, by and large, fairly serious individuals. Fair enough – duty and service, saving the world on a regular basis and a complete dearth of work/life balance would make if difficult for anyone to be too jocular or giddily upbeat, and as for kidding or joking round, especially in Continue Reading