Connection with others is one of the richest and most rewarding parts of being human. Whether it’s with a family member or friend or significant other, the act of relating to someone else, many someone elses in fact, brings life alive, helps us to define who are and what it 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!
Get ready to Upload all over again! Season 2 is on its futuristically satirical way …
SNAPSHOT“In Upload Season Two, Nathan is at a crossroads in his (after) life… his ex-girlfriend Ingrid has unexpectedly arrived to Lakeview hoping to strengthen their relationship, but his heart still secretly yearns for his customer service angel Nora. Meanwhile, Nora is off the grid and involved with the anti-tech rebel Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: An A-List for Death by Pamela Hart
SNAPSHOTTV researcher Poppy McGowan has never sought the spotlight and is none too happy to be photographed with rock god Nathan Castle. When the photo pops up on celebrity gossip sites, it sparks a media feeding frenzy, forcing Poppy to go to ground, don a wig, and pull some nifty Continue Reading
Movie review: Jump, Darling #Queerscreen
Stymied dreams are never an easy thing with which deal, bringing with them not only frustration at plans thwarted but also a palpable kind of grief at envisaged possibilities lost. There is a searing, often quietly-expressed, emotional devastation to stories of people caught in an unfinished limbo of their own Continue Reading
Book review: Em & Me by Beth Morrey
When it comes to life, we always have the best of intentions. We’re going to carpe diem, triumph over the odds, find success and happiness in multitudinous quantities and prove to all the naysayers from our past that we have what it takes, and then some. It’s a glowing, exciting Continue Reading
A thousand ways of saying family: Thoughts on Star Trek – Discovery S4 (ep. 1-7)
Ostensibly the fourth season of what has become Star Trek‘s current flagship is all about a big, bad anomaly that is wantonly winging its way back and forth across the galaxy, causing damage, death and destruction. Discovery, which has embraced a serialised style of storytelling from the get-go, always has Continue Reading
Good is no fun at all. Or is it? Let’s see if The Bad Guys can figure it out
SNAPSHOTIn this action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet—becoming model citizens. Never have there been 5 friends as infamous as The Bad Guys: dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell), seen-it-all Continue Reading
Book review: The Competition by Katherine Collette
Life rarely works out quite like we plan it, does it? Oh, we have grand and vaulting plans when we’re young, a time when we expect that our adult decades will be all self-fulfillment, donuts and parades; then we actually grow up and find that making those heady plans come Continue Reading
Time for a VFX breakdown: Paddington 2
SNAPSHOTPaddington is happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s Continue Reading
Eurovision update: Russia out, new artists selected and Australia Decides
It has not been the world’s finest week … and that’s putting it mildly. Even as the COVID pandemic continues to stalk the world, Russia invaded Ukraine after weeks of military posturing at the border, plunging the emerging Western liberal democracy into a hellhole not even remotely of its making. Continue Reading