SNAPSHOTIn the film, a man, a robot, and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few 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!
Book review: My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
With the human experience awash in apocalyptical tales, including a pandemic one that sits rather uncomfortably at the heart of modern reality, you could be forgiven for thinking that one of the end of the world story looks much like the other. And while it’s true that all of them Continue Reading
Movie review: Tove #Queerscreen
When you love someone’s creation with the unvarnished innocence and enthusiasm of childhood, and yes, this can persist well into adulthood since it retains for perpetuity the shape and ardour with which it was formed, it’s hard to conceive of its creator as someone with raw, troubled humanity, in other Continue Reading
Further animated adventures far from the Bridge: Thoughts on Lower Decks (S2, E1-5)
Star Trek has a reputation for being very, VERY serious. It’s not undeserved, of course, since the franchise as a whole has its eyes firmly on the bettering of the human race in particular and the galaxy as a whole, an undertaking far into the future that is, by its Continue Reading
What might the near future be like? The City Inside has some ideas
SNAPSHOTJoey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Pixar’s newest SparkShorts’ Twenty Something
SNAPSHORTAdulting can be hard. Some days you’re nailing it, while other days, you’re just a stack of kids hiding in a trench coat hoping no one notices. Gia finds herself in this exact scenario the night of her 21st birthday. This is a story about the insecurities of adulting and Continue Reading
Book review: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green
We like to think in this hyperconnected digital age of ours that we are closer than ever to those around us, and even those far, far away. And while there is some intimacy and value that comes from trading thoughts on everything from politics to cake recipes on social media Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: New character posters for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
SNAPSHOTA love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city, centering on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch. Inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker, and some characters and Continue Reading
Book review: The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
In our pandemic-saturated times, it is all too easy to picture the world ending. That may sound overly bleak and troublingly dark but the truth is that while we all wish for things to improve and for the world to regain its healthy civilisational glow, the reality is that COVID Continue Reading
Hawkeye: This holiday season the best gifts come with a bow (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTFormer Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail Continue Reading