There is a gloriously mischievous energy that tumbles with vivacity and cheekiness through every last frame of Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, a graphic novel which imagines with imaginatively unholy glee what might happen if Lara Croft has a few less scruples, a whole lot more je ne sais quoi and Continue Reading
aussiemoose
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!
A mini mass of movie trailers: Thor: Love and Thunder, Top Gun: Maverick + Benediction
It’s a tale of two blockbusters and an indie. If you want a snapshot of the diversity of today’s cinema, then this is it; sure blockbusters are like the eighty ton gorilla that seems to cinematically stomp over everything, but the well done ones, and let’s hope these are among Continue Reading
Book review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
There are a great many novels out there that explore the idea of a multiverse, or at least the idea of alternate realities or time shifts, and which do so in a way that is often imaginative, compelling and fantastically immersively readable. The new novel by Emily St. John Mandel Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Goat That Ate Time finds there are never enough hours in the day
SNAPSHOTHigh on a hill and somewhat far away, there once lived a goat and he was very hungry. …Henry was well aware of time you see, and frankly that there was never enough of it in his mind to eat all the things he planned and hoped and dreamed of Continue Reading
Movie review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
As characters go, Sonic the Hedgehog is a big deal. A staple of Sega’s video game portfolio, Sonic is an an anthropomorphically alien blue hedgehog who, after first emerging in 1991, went on to star in countless games for the franchise, earning the company healthy sales and putting the plucky Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The retold power of myth in Ithaca by Claire North
SNAPSHOTThis is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 5 – Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Montenegro (semi-final 2, part 2)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
You are cleared for hyper launch! Lightyear drops its third and likely final trailer
SNAPSHOTThe definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, Continue Reading
Book review: The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal
The Secret World of Connie Starr releases 1 June 2022; ARC courtesy NetGalley. If you cast your mind back quite some decades, specifically the middle swathe of the twentieth century, your overwhelming impression is of impressively impervious social cohesion and conformity, bolstered by church and state in resolute lockstep and Continue Reading
The beginning of one thing can be the rest of everything: Get ready to fall in love with Heartstopper
SNAPSHOTThe story of two British teens, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together in class. Their friendship quickly becomes something more for openly gay Charlie, but he Continue Reading