As a species, humanity has shown a healthy evolutionary disposition for engaging in flight rather than fight, the better to live and build civilisation another day. Of course, though, sometimes the challenge before us demands a fearsomely fight-driven response, something we instinctually seem to know when a particular problem plagues 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!
Graphic novel review: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? by Boss and Rosenberg with Otsmane-Elhaou (issues 1-5)
There’s something brilliantly exhilarating about plunging into a graphic novel series and having only the vaguest sense of what you’re in for, especially when said series, in this case What’s the Furthest Place From Here? by Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg (with Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou) takes that trust and goes to Continue Reading
Book review: The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
It is a gloriously rare thing indeed when a book comes along such as The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston which takes a well-worn premise and absolutely and completely upends it in ways both sweetly heartfelt and profoundly moving. When this happens it affirms once again that while there may Continue Reading
The last day of Bunny Folger … and beyond: Thoughts on Murders in the Building (S2, E3-6)
If you watch the light and witty trailers for Only Murders in the Building, the series about three murder-solving New Yorkers of divergent age and life experience living in the fancy Arconia apartment building, it would be all too easy to assume that the show is all quirky sweetness and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Funny Pages, Catherine Called Birdy + The Good House
The world is our oyster when it comes to cinematic offerings. There are films everywhere all of a sudden, then result no doubt of a pandemic bottleneck which, while not totally freed, is far more open than it was, allowing us to once more disappear into worlds far away and Continue Reading
Doing a Die Hard, exploding cars and obvious traps: Rick and Morty S6 has it all
SNAPSHOTIt’s season six and Rick and Morty are back! Pick up where we left them, worse for wear and down on their luck. Will they manage to bounce back for more adventures? Or will they get swept up in an ocean of piss! Who knows?! Piss! Family! Intrigue! A bunch Continue Reading
Book review: The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
It’s a rare book indeed that doesn’t transport you far away from the everyday, taking you on a richly imaginative journey, whether it’s into someone’s life, their innermost thoughts or to magical places that defy the intervention of the ordinary. It’s one of the great, abiding joys of reading. The Continue Reading
Movie review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
It is near impossible to watch Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and not have your heart pulled from your chest, shaped, prodded, poked and split into two and healed before being placed back in your chest beating furiously and with gloriously, heartwarmingly renewed purpose. You could possibly say that Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #71: Yb., Yuna, Låpsley, FELIVAND, Madeline the Person
Falling in love, and yes, also sadly falling out of it, do tend to lend themselves to songs that are happy to take their time ruminating on what’s good, and not so good, about all thing romantic. These five songs from five thoughtfully expressive artists, who know their way around Continue Reading
Movie review: Prey
Having your expectations about a particular film blown to smithereens – in a good way, not the hype-exceeds-reality way – is one of those rare life pleasures that never gets old. Especially in an era where every single film is known about, dissected and examined to within an inch of Continue Reading