While it’s not universally true, a great many novels about the multiverse come with a whimsical, wondrous edge, the idea that while there might be dangers aplenty in alternate realities, there is still an alluring sense of the different and the exciting. None of that exists in The 22 Murders 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!
Wasn’t that released a year ago? Deadpool has some fun reacting to the Free Guy trailer
SNAPSHOTIn Free Guy, a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story … one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who Continue Reading
Movie review: The Water Man
“Hope is a powerful force. It made you see what you wanted to see. It made you see … ME.” There is an immense power at the heart what might seem to be a fairly straightforward film. That power takes for the form of hope, which might be dismissed by Continue Reading
Preserve your legacy: The sage lesson of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
SNAPSHOTIn Foundation, when revolutionary Dr. Hari Seldon predicts the impending fall of the Empire, he and a band of loyal followers venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization. Enraged by Hari’s claims, the ruling Cleons — Continue Reading
Book review: Love in Theory by Elodie Cheesman
The heart vs. the head. Not quite a battle as old as time but almost; throughout our relatively short evolutionary history, humanity has long debated whether it is better to let the heart rule ,with its passion and spontaneity, or to leave the head hold sway as it calmly invokes Continue Reading
Christmas is a Way of Life, My Dear by Chantal Kreviazuk #ChristmasInJuly
The world is rather neatly divided into two groups of people – those who hate Christmas with a passion and would rather be flayed alive by an invading army than sing “Joy to the World” or eat a fruit mince pie, and those who, like Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk (and Continue Reading
Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas: A #ChristmasInJuly review
Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas is very much an underrated Christmas classic. Released just under a decade ago on the most auspicious day of 25 November (this reviewer’s birthday), the 22-minute Hallmark animated special nails its happily quasi-seditious colours to the flag early on with a title hat screams playfulness Continue Reading
A grand whodunnit through time and space: Thoughts on Loki
Character is king, queen, lord, lady and any other top of the heap appellation you might dream up when it comes to storytelling. You can have your bangs and your booms, your breathtaking action sequences with the dial up as high as it’ll go and your full speed ahead, pedal Continue Reading
Comics review: Snoopy – A Beagle of Mars (based on the comic strip, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)
When it comes to keeping a vital and beloved set of characters alive and relevant to a whole new generation, the family of Charles M. Schulz, who sadly passed away in 2000, have done a superlative job. They have managed to keep Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the rest of Continue Reading
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World … or is it? The sobering teaser trailer for Y: The Last Man
SNAPSHOTBased on DC Comics’ acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new Continue Reading