If you’ve read a lot of science fiction, there’s an extremely good chance that you have read an enormous amount of space opera, a significant chunk of the genre that dares to imagine what humanity might be like spread out among the stars and what threats might await those engaging 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!
Songs, songs and more songs #68: Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maggie Rogers, Betty Who, MUNA + new ABBA lyric video for “SOS”
It’s been a rough two years and an even rougher few weeks and I honestly I need some upbeat, effervescent pop joy in my life. Thankfully songs like the five in this post, which have come to my attention via YouTube, music blogs and Shazam-ing TV shows, means that the Continue Reading
Pulling back the documentary curtain: On location with Prehistoric Planet
SNAPSHOTReal landscapes. Remarkable creatures. An extraordinary team. Watch how the creators of Prehistoric Planet brought this one-of-a-kind documentary to life. (courtesy official Apple TV YouTube Channel) There ae those among us who love to see the curtain pulled back on shows or movies they watch, and those who manifestly do Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World – Dominion
Endings matter, especially when it comes to the stories we tell. We might not be able control much about our spotty, blighted existence but one thing we can most certainly influence, and to hopefully satisfying effect, are the stories we tell, and how they end. Get the finish right and Continue Reading
Book review: First Time For Everything by Henry Fry
No matter who you are, growing is never, ever easy. It becomes significantly less easier when you have the audacity to be born singularly unable to march to the beat of a mainstream drum, a “failing”, so the gatekeepers of what is normal and correct, by society’s standards anyway, that Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Lightfall (book 2) – Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert
It makes your heart glad when you can return to a place and to characters you have come to love. Picking up Lightfall 2: Shadow of the Bird was one of those moments you have when consuming any kind of pop culture where you feel like you are back in Continue Reading
A romantic indie comedy double: Honor Society and Mack & Rita
Is there anything new or different you can do with romantic comedies? You might think “NO!” they are tripped in a delightful trope-heavy prison of their own making; but the fact is, with a little cleverness and imagination, you can add some freshness and originality to the mix. Granted, not Continue Reading
Book review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Brilliantly well-written romantic comedies are a thing of escapist wonder. In a world where life too often throws on beige garments, walk at a sullenly glacial pace through each and every day and spends its free time doing tax returns and crunching rainfall data from 1943, rom-coms often us the Continue Reading
It’s time to question everything…and we mean EVERYTHING! Meet the glorious Oddballs team of James and Max
SNAPSHOTOddballs follows James, a bubble-shaped boy, whose observations on life fuel his comedic rants at everyday annoyances and elevates them to laughably absurd heights. Along with his best friends Max (a talking crocodile) and Echo (a girl who claims to be from the future), James’ ridiculous schemes to question norms Continue Reading
The past cannot be outrun but it can be reckoned with: Thoughts on Obi-Wan Kenobi (S1, E3-6)
One thing that was firmly established in the first two episodes of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi is that is no swashbuckling rush to an action-soaked finish line. That’s a good thing and it makes sense when you factor in that there’s already so much we know about where Obi-Wan Kenobi Continue Reading