SNAPSHOT“… the new special, “Legend of the Sea Devils”, is taking the Doctor, Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) to 19th century China. The big historical highlight of the special belongs to Crystal Yu as real life pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao, aka Madame Ching. Ching was considered one 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 Last Bus
The English have a welcome ability to make whimsically meaningful films that get right into your heart, which while they may be a little sentimental and comically cute at times, restore faith in audiences that life can be more than a thousand kinds of negatively awful. The more cynical among Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – come and meet the crew! (Plus all new trailer!)
SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Strange New Worlds features Anson Mount as Captain Pike alongside Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn who also reprise their Discovery roles as Spock and Number One, a.k.a. Una Chin-Riley, respectively. Filling out the crew of the USS Enterprise are Jess Bush (Skinford) as Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Continue Reading
Book review: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
One thing among the many that has always made reading reading so precious and necessary to this reviewer is its ability to warp reality in ways so escapist and pleasingly beyond belief that any troubles in the real world are temporarily kept at bay for the duration of the read. Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 2 – Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands (semi-final 1, 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
So animated! Ice Age Scrat Tales, The Seabeast and Minions: The Rise of Gru
Thank goodness for animation! In a world beset an apocalyptic level set of events from the COVID pandemic to war to climate change to, likely somewhere on the planet, zombie uprisings and aliens (over the top, true, but their existence would certainly fit the dark and dismal spirit of the Continue Reading
Getting their ship together: Thoughts on Our Flag Means Death (season 1)
On the face of it, and by that we mean a highly entertaining trailer rife with gleefully appealing parodic elements, Our Flag Means Death looks like it will a highly amusing, nay ridiculously hilarious, sideways take on the classic age of piracy. And in an age when pandemic, climate change Continue Reading
Mystery, mayhem and mirth returns in season of Only Murders in the Building
SNAPSHOTAccording to Hulu, season two will see Charles, Oliver, and Mabel “race to unmask” who killed Arconia board president Bunny Folger. It won’t be easy, though. For a whole lot of reasons that are bad for them but great for viewers. They’ll deal with multiple “complications.” The group “is publicly Continue Reading
Book review: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Every novel worth its narrative salt should have an emotional hook that ensnares your reader heart. But there’s something about the emotionally evocative wonder that is The Vanished Birds, the debut book by promising writer Simon Jimenez, that captures your heart (and mind and soul) far more deeply and irrevocably Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #63: Jordan Stephens, Florence + The Machine, Dayglow, Mabel + SIGALA +++ Eurovision 2022 update!
I have just recovered from COVID. After being so careful about where I’d go and who I’d go there with, catching the disease was a massive downer, not least because it laid waste to my life, even with all those wonderful vaccinations – get vaxxed people! – but because suddenly Continue Reading