In a year where the pandemic has somehow managed to get worse, and climate change is making its presence in scarily unprecedented and well ahead of the modelling ways, it can be all too easy to lose hope and think there is nothing good left in the world. But, of 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!
Mini-mass of movie and streaming trailers: Solitary, The Guilty, Maya and the Three
Another week and more trailers to remind that us, all evidence to the contrary, there is still life and creativity and vigour out there in the world. Thankfully since Sydney remains in hard lockdown, two of the three in this triple pick of trailers are available via streaming which means Continue Reading
Book review: The 24-Hour Café by Libby Page
Walk through the streets of any big city and you will quickly come to understand that while you are surrounded by an untold number of people, all surging past with steely and impatient intent, you are, in many important ways, very much alone. None of those people know you or Continue Reading
The Flintstones return in the frenetic fun of Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs
SNAPSHOTBest friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble are two kids from the town of Bedrock, a modern Stone Age civilization where dinosaurs are domesticated and helpful, including their lovable and loyal pet Dino. But the real ‘yabba dabba doo’ times are had in the open wilderness outside of Bedrock city Continue Reading
Book review: After Story by Larissa Behrendt
In our information-saturated digital age, it is all too easy to think that everything that needs to be said, has been said. But After Story by Larissa Behrendt, makes it abundantly and movingly clear that a great deal remains swept under metaphorical carpets or held close to the chest and Continue Reading
“I am Dug and this makes me … Squirrel!” New trailer lands for Dug Days
SNAPSHOTPixar Animation Studios’ Dug Days is a collection of shorts that follows the humorous misadventures of Dug, the lovable dog from Disney and Pixar’s Up. Each short features everyday events that occur in and around Dug’s backyard, all through the exciting (and delightfully distorted) eyes of our favorite talking dog. Dug Continue Reading
Love leads to the strangest places: Thoughts on Schmigadoon!
After 18 months of harrowing, constraining, good mental health-sapping pandemic, it’s a reasonable assumption to make that most people are in need of a good laugh, a warm hug, some schmoozy romantic love and music so buoyantly light you can feel your spirit rise right along with the peppy notes. Continue Reading
Nailed It! season 6 has a trailer … and more messy cake-y, pie-y goodness and hilarity
SNAPSHOT“For those that have managed to miss the first five seasons and yet clicked here anyway, the show is essentially like the various Baking Championship specials but with the twist that no one who competes can actually bake. So, you can expect lots of laughs in this show as incompetency Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Undiscovered Country, Volume 2: Unity by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule
There is a real art to balancing a completely bonkers premise with some pithy, salient observations about the brokenness and weirdness of humanity which somehow still manages to hang onto something approaching hope, and Undiscovered Country, now back with a second off-the-wall Alice in Wonderland-meets-Mad Max narrative instalment, manages with Continue Reading
Book review: Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North
You would think after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and the concomitant civilisation building that goes with it, that humanity would have learnt from its past mistakes and found a way to not repeat them ad infinitum. But this appears not to be the case with the twentieth Continue Reading