There’s a certain blinkered quality to true love that only becomes when you actually enter a relationship, or are possibly on the way to doing so. All those swirling, richly-red, rose petal-coloured wafty dreams about falling headlong and completely in love suddenly look a lot more earthbound when you run 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!
A marvellous mini-mass of movie trailers: Avatar – the Way of Water, Luck + Cha Cha Real Smooth
I am back at the movies! My spirit really never left but with COVID still creating havoc and in-person viewing often off the table over the last two years, actually put my bum into a cinema seat has proved problematic at best and impossible at worst. But over the last Continue Reading
When everyone has left the stage … the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 grand final wrap-up
The Eurovision Song Contest is over for another year. It’s sad, as always, because if there is one thing Eurovision does better than just about any other event, it’s remind us that good and wonderful things still exist in the world. Beset as we are by war, climate change, rising Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2022 – Italian cultural festival TV review: An Astrological Guide For Broken Hearts / Guida astrologica per cuori infranti (S1 & 2)
The recipe for the average romantic comedy is relatively simple. Two people who meet-cute in the most magical or banal of circumstances whereby an immediate, irresistible connection is sparked, one which cannot, of course, be given into because of one major obstacle, or several, and which after some torturous will-they, Continue Reading
Book review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
When you pick up a book with the invitingly whimsical title, A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting, which is set in 1818 London during the height of the Season when balls are held and marriages sealed among the English elite known as the ton, you have every right to expect there Continue Reading
What waits for us in the Night Sky?
It’s a rare thing to see a trailer for a TV/streaming series and know, pretty much immediately, that you’ll be all the poorer for it if you don’t watch it. Sure, you can be intrigued, enthralled and excited but that sense of compelling FOMO is a wonderfully uncommon occurrence, which Continue Reading
Behold the House of the Dragon’s all-new trailer and posters full of fire and blood
SNAPSHOTAdapted from Martin’s Targaryen history book Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. The show will focus on an infamous event in Westeros history known as the Dance of the Dragons. This is a civil war that took place between siblings Aegon II and Continue Reading
Whimsically powerful pop: My 5 favourite Eurovision songs of all time
Like a lot of people I have been watching the Eurovision Song Contest for a great many years. During that time, I have fallen in love with a great many songs – contrary to what the naysayers and trolls say the contest produces far more catchy songs than it does Continue Reading
Book review: Obsidian by Sarah J. Daley
Good fantasy tales often rise and fall on the strength of their world-building. Sure, you need compelling characters in whom you can become invested and a driving narrative that takes you to utterly extraordinary places but none of which really stacks up if the world in which it all takes Continue Reading
Movie review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Let’s be clear from the outset – Marvel makes really great, utterly immersive films for the most part. It helps, of course, that they have compelling characters and fantastical premises; but then so does D.C. and they have yet to consistently turn their characters into movies that enthrall and help Continue Reading