Who doesn’t love a second chance? They’re what we live for, crave, want and need, and we endlessly romanticise them in countless ways and by numerous means, hoping against hope that the mistakes of our past can be fixed in some way by wise choices and some grace and forgiveness 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!
On 11th day of Christmas … I watched 3 retro festive sitcom eps: Newhart, RHODA, Mad About You
I love sitcoms. I love retro sitcoms. And I especially love sitcom episodes set at Christmas when the whole world seems to take a break from being a great big, burning dumpster fire and acts like all those gorgeous, wonderful, fabulous things you always thought life could be, might just Continue Reading
Winnie the Pooh gets festive in A Very Merry Pooh New Year (incl. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too)
If you had the choice of all kinds of fictional characters to spend Christmas with, and yes, there are an awful lot of them – although, to be fair, avoiding the xenomorphs from Alien or Pennywise from IT may keep a lot more festive – picking the residents of the Continue Reading
Do opposites festively attract? We find out in Christmas Flow (TV series)
Do opposites ever really attract? Not as often as you might think in real life, but often enough it seems for many a romantic comedy to hang its divergent storytelling upon the premise and see where competing life views may take it. It certainly works Christmas Flow, a French limited Continue Reading
On 10th day of Christmas … I read Merry and Bright by Debbie Macomber (book review)
What does Merry Smith want for Christmas? Well, she’ll take time with her gorgeous, close-knit family including quality time baking cookies with her 18-year-old brother Patrick (who has Down syndrome) and looking after Mum Robin who has multiple sclerosis, shopping for delicious treats in amongst the normal weekly grocery shop Continue Reading
Movie review: Ron’s Gone Wrong
Modern animation often sets out with three distinct goals – to be riotously funny, visually striking and to have a beating heart of humanity at its core that also imparts a meaningful message. It’s a tricky trio of things to keep in balance and not every animated features well, or Continue Reading
Hotdog eggnog! Ted Lasso gets stop-motion festive in The Missing Christmas Mustache
SNAPSHOTEmmy® winner Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage a British soccer team — despite having no experience. But what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for with optimism, underdog determination — and biscuits. The widely acclaimed series also stars Emmy® winner Hannah Waddingham, Continue Reading
On the 9th day of Christmas … I pondered who’d be best in glass in Blown Away: Christmas (review)
Christmas is beautiful. Really, really beautiful. Look around you – lights twinkle, plain green trees (to be fair gorgeous unadorned too) are festooned in baubles and tinsel, and yes, more lights, lit sculptures hang over on streets with word like “JOY” and “PEACE” split out in festive colour … and Continue Reading
Book review: Stringers by Chris Panatier
ARC courtesy Chris Panatier – release date 12 April 2022. Release the dung beetles of imagination my friends! Never heard of them? Well, that won’t be a problem once Chris Panatier is done with you via the mad, manic and hilariously affecting delights of his second novel, Stringers, which spends Continue Reading
On 8th day of Christmas … I watched Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
It would not be a stretch to assert that A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is the most important, iconic and thus, most adapted piece of writing in modern Christmas history. A morality tale for those who want a heartwarming story of darkness and redemption but without all the religious Continue Reading