Who says you can’t cross media without leaching the life and fun out of the source and leaving a pale, timid imitation in its wake? Bubble, in all its gloriously colourfully imaginative and sharply satirical is proof positive that you can take a podcast-based audio serial, which played out over 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 colourful collection of streaming trailers: 1899, Wednesday, Sweet Tooth (season 2), the Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild
So many streaming platforms … and not a thing to watch? To hear some malcontents on social media that’s precisely the case, but honestly there are so many diverse and amazing programs coming down the pike that it’s hard to see how you could possibly find nothing that interests you. Continue Reading
Book review: The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading
Weekend poster pop art: Meet (sort of) some of the characters from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
SNAPSHOTThis epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung Continue Reading
Life a little too ordinary? Then get ready to journey to Disney’s Strange World where nothing is as it appears
SNAPSHOTTravel past space and time to a place of infinite mystery… Jake Gyllenhaal lends his voice to Searcher Clade, the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten Continue Reading
The frontier awaits: Thoughts on Strange New Worlds (S1, E 1-5)
It is a rare, rare thing indeed, especially in an age of multitudinous streaming abundance where derivative ideas and leveraged brands are everywhere like rabbits in plague numbers, to find a new show that feels like a freaking breath of fresh air. It’s even more remarkable when said show, in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Minions – Rise of Gru, Love & Gelato and The Score
A manically fun animated feature, a quirky musical and a romantic comedy. This post’s three selected films are the perfect encapsulation, old time ’80s blockbusters and arthouse indies aside, of my cinematic tastes and I am totally here for every single last one of them, especially given the stress of Continue Reading
Book review: The Flight of the Aphrodite by S. J. Morden
It is generally agreed that every book worth its captivating storytelling novel needs a damn good protagonist, someone who may not be perfect but who is able to drive things forward, get things done and hopefully end up suitably well-changed by the time the narrative draws to a satisfying close. Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost City
The Eighties were many things – Hypercolor T-shirts, big hair and shoulder pads – but they were also the era of wildly, escapist blockbusters like Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, two films which took us on grandly silly adventures, throwing in some romance, derring-do and a Continue Reading
Documentary review: Prehistoric Planet
There is no denying that we have a fascination with prehistoric life. And really, why wouldn’t we? The creatures of long, LONG ago capture our imaginations because of their considerable removal from our own modern world, their otherworldliness and difference which stands in marked contrast to anything we have in Continue Reading