Watching Ted Lasso in the closing months of 2021, the second grinding year of pandemic, was one of the best things I have ever done. It lifted my flagging, exhausted spirit, reminded in two superlative seasons – season 1 review and season 2 review – reminded me of how great 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!
Book review: The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie
What truly makes an arresting novel? Answers will likely vary as widely as every reader out there, and their numbers are considerable, but usually most people will agree that you need a gripping narrative, superlatively engaging writing, a beguiling sense of palpable time and place, and a protagonist that captures Continue Reading
It’s a serious pirate’s life for me! Arrrr … or is it? Our Flag Means Death
SNAPSHOTOur Flag Means Death is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandons his life of privilege to become a pirate. The series also stars Academy Award winner Taika Waititi as Blackbeard, history’s most feared and revered pirate. Our Flag Means Death is a Continue Reading
Book review: Deep Dive by Ron Walters
Much as we like to think of reality as a concrete, palpable thing, immovable and unchangeable, the fact is that it is altered by any number of variables, not least how we perceive the world around us and what our mind accepts as real and not real. It might look Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The murderous mystery of “Station Eternity” by Mur Lafferty
SNAPSHOTFrom idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social Continue Reading
Book review: The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
Agatha Christie in space! Okay that’s not quite what The Apollo Murders is, and no doubt real-life Canadian author Chris Hadfield, who has made quite a name for himself in recent years with great space-centric non fiction reads, might wonder how you might shoehorn Miss Marple into a spacesuit and Continue Reading
Movie review: Ghostbusters – Afterlife
As memorable catchphrases go, it’s hard to go past “Who ya gonna call?” which is followed, without usually a second’s hesitation, by “GHOSTBUSTERS!” Such is the heady power of nostalgia for this venerable and much-loved franchise, that simply uttering that single catchphrase or sighting the vivid red and white ghostly Continue Reading
Back to the Upside Down to the power of 4! New posters + release dates for new season of Stranger Things
Every ending has a beginning. In any other context, that might not be the most scintillating of taglines but when it comes to Stranger Things and its fourth much-delayed season (thank you once again COVID but no, thank you), it is the mostb exciting statement of the obvious ever. In Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #61: Genesis Owusu, Dune Rats, Moonchild Sanelly & Sad Night Dynamite, Alewya, Holly Humberstone + Eurovision 2022 update
Music moves you. Maybe it’s the beat or what’s being said or a gloriously good combo of the two but whatever it is that presses your buttons in a good way, it’s true that music makes life a whole lot richer, more thoughtful and way more danceable and alive. These Continue Reading
Movie review: CODA
Why remake a perfectly good, emotionally resonant film in another language just because you can? It is one of the questions for the ages, and usually is succinctly answered by “There really was no need”, something that could well be said about CODA, a remake of the 2014 film La Continue Reading