SNAPSHOTTV researcher Poppy McGowan has never sought the spotlight and is none too happy to be photographed with rock god Nathan Castle. When the photo pops up on celebrity gossip sites, it sparks a media feeding frenzy, forcing Poppy to go to ground, don a wig, and pull some nifty 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: Jump, Darling #Queerscreen
Stymied dreams are never an easy thing with which deal, bringing with them not only frustration at plans thwarted but also a palpable kind of grief at envisaged possibilities lost. There is a searing, often quietly-expressed, emotional devastation to stories of people caught in an unfinished limbo of their own Continue Reading
Book review: Em & Me by Beth Morrey
When it comes to life, we always have the best of intentions. We’re going to carpe diem, triumph over the odds, find success and happiness in multitudinous quantities and prove to all the naysayers from our past that we have what it takes, and then some. It’s a glowing, exciting Continue Reading
A thousand ways of saying family: Thoughts on Star Trek – Discovery S4 (ep. 1-7)
Ostensibly the fourth season of what has become Star Trek‘s current flagship is all about a big, bad anomaly that is wantonly winging its way back and forth across the galaxy, causing damage, death and destruction. Discovery, which has embraced a serialised style of storytelling from the get-go, always has Continue Reading
Good is no fun at all. Or is it? Let’s see if The Bad Guys can figure it out
SNAPSHOTIn this action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet—becoming model citizens. Never have there been 5 friends as infamous as The Bad Guys: dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell), seen-it-all Continue Reading
Book review: The Competition by Katherine Collette
Life rarely works out quite like we plan it, does it? Oh, we have grand and vaulting plans when we’re young, a time when we expect that our adult decades will be all self-fulfillment, donuts and parades; then we actually grow up and find that making those heady plans come Continue Reading
Time for a VFX breakdown: Paddington 2
SNAPSHOTPaddington is happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s Continue Reading
Eurovision update: Russia out, new artists selected and Australia Decides
It has not been the world’s finest week … and that’s putting it mildly. Even as the COVID pandemic continues to stalk the world, Russia invaded Ukraine after weeks of military posturing at the border, plunging the emerging Western liberal democracy into a hellhole not even remotely of its making. Continue Reading
Book review: This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise
With so much of life uncontrollable and intangible, people often place great stock in the fact that the physical world around us has a solidity and permanence to it. Sure, natural disasters and pandemics can shake that to the core in profoundly traumatic ways at times, something we all have Continue Reading
Movie review: The French Dispatch
If you are a fan of director Wes Anderson, it will surprise you precisely not at all that there is a great deal of theatrical whimsicality in his latest film, The French Dispatch, or to give it its full playfully long title, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Continue Reading