Growing up in a place where your lived experience is not part of the mainstream is daunting indeed. It becomes even more pronounced in rural areas where the lack of anonymity provided by the diversity hustle and bustle of the big city leaves many people exposed and open to ridicule, 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!
When it rains, she pours … Thoughts on The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
What a wild ride is The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window! An eight-episode series that sports the kind of title that would make Fiona Apple green with titular envy, The Woman in the House … is the brainchild of Rachel Ramras & Continue Reading
Book review: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Having your heart ripped out of you and then placed back in again may not be at the top of everyone’s list of great things to do in your mortal waking hours. But when you are reading the transcendentally affecting delight that is TJ Klune’s (The House in the Cerulean Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more ABBA songs: Voyage and before … Dance (While the Music Still Goes On) & While You Danced With Me + more
The release of ABBA’s Voyage album late last year, after a 39-year drought of new full-length releases from the much-loved iconic Swedish pop group – we did get “I Am the City” in the early Nineties on More ABBA Gold and a scattering of part releases in a medley on Continue Reading
Book review: The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper
Split narratives, whether its differing timeframes, character point-of-view or physical location, can be problematic in novels. While they can shed illumination aplenty on the storyline, their two vantage points providing dual and hopefully complementary insight on the unfolding story, they can often end up with one being compelling and the Continue Reading
Our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope: HALO debuts its second sensational trailer
SNAPSHOTAliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. A live-action TV series based on the video game Halo. This new Halo series is created by and developed by Steven Kane (creator of The Last Ship, producer on The Closer and American Dad!) and Kyle Killen. The series scripts are Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tender Bar
Life has a way, especially in the midst of a neverending pandemic, of making you feel as if no good can ever come from it. Grinding mercilessly and ceaselessly on, it makes demand after demand without once feeling as if it giving anything of much value back ; it is, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The haunting exile of Migrants
SNAPSHOT“Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.” Migrants is a project made by students studying at PÔLE – a 2D & 3D animation cinema school based in Roubaix, France. It’s directed Continue Reading
Book review: Out of Character by Annabeth Albert
No book is ever read in an experiential vacuum. Any reader brings to a novel their world view, their pain and their sorrow, their hopes and their joys and all of them go into how they react to any story, often dialling it up or shaping into ways more intense Continue Reading
The books they are a-coming! Angry Robot Books announces three exciting new releases
I am huge reader of sci-fi and fantasy books, and as such, I love it when authors, and just as importantly publishing houses, decide to go all out to do something a little, or a lot, different with the genre. It’s why I love Angry Robot Books who, quite apart Continue Reading