There is something gloriously, wondrously good about having a space opera take you racing across the heavens in heady pursuit of power, fame, treasures or other eg-burnishing existential bauble. It is even better when said space opera is superbly written with tightly intricate plotting, well thought-out and realised characters and 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!
Growing up is a beast: Pixar’s Turning Red releases teaser trailer + poster
SNAPSHOTTurning Red will be led by young actress Rosalie Chiang as she lends her voice to Mei Lee, a 13-year-old who suddenly “poofs” into a giant red panda when she gets too excited. Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) voices Mei Lee’s protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, who is never Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Widow
If there is one glaring side effect of the current surfeit of Marvel films now out in an increasingly superhero-overwhelmed world, although to be fair Black Widow is the first release in the MCU since July 2019 (Spiderman: Far From Home), it’s that everything is starting to merge together into Continue Reading
What dreams may not come: Mr Corman explores the tension between aspiration and reality
SNAPSHOTFrom writer, director, executive producer, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, Don Jon), “Mr. Corman” follows the days and nights of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. Things haven’t been going his way lately – his lifelong dream of a career in music Continue Reading
The best endings are Atypical: Thoughts on the final season
Figuring out who you are and what you want to do are two of the big asks when you’re edging ever closer to adulthood. With school drawing to a close, and the grown-up world beckoning, a tremendous amount of pressure comes to bear on young adults to get life sorted, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The heartfelt artistic reawakening of Canvas
SNAPSHOTAfter a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to paint again. (synopsis vis Netflix) Grief, more often that not, is accompanied by an almost palpable sense of limbo. While the world might keep racing on around you, and all the things you Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly Book review: The Cosy Christmas Chocolate Shop (Cosy Chocolate Shop #1) by Caroline Roberts
There appears to be a neverending streak of cosy Christmas noels out there. Many of them are delightfully written, giving us 300 or so pages in which to sink into a world, usually composed of a quirky but loving English village, a shop of some kind that usually serves comfort Continue Reading
It’s time to join the gang at Superstore for “Christmas Eve” #ChristmasInJuly
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right? Right? I mean, how can it not be with all the lights and the merriment and the joy and “winter barn displays” (aka nativity scenes) and such? And yet in “Christmas Eve”, the season 3 episode of Superstore which goes Continue Reading
Retro animated movie review: Monsters Inc. #Happy20thAnniversary
Watching Monsters, Inc. after a lamentable gap of twenty years is akin to catching up with a close friend you once adored and loved, and deep down still do, but with whom you’ve had little to no contact since you saw them last. As you begin to get re-acquainted, it Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Lorelei, Little Q, The Evening Hour, Encanto, The Addams Family 2
Still in lockdown and still in need of cinematic diversion. It seems to be that at those times when you can’t go out and see the world – I am trapped inside an apartment in a locked down city in a state shut off all the others in a country Continue Reading