As the city I live in hurtle into a third straight week of lockdown with more to come, it’s heartening that there is so much great music to keep spirits higher than they might otherwise be. Even better, this music comes with thoughtful, observant and playful lyrics that poetically reflect 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: The Long, Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper
It will be a news flash to precisely no one that people are very good at trying to create the reality they desire. It usually bears no resemblance to life as it actually is, and can be irritating at best and murderously destructive at worst, and in Inga Vesper’s The Continue Reading
Psst! We’re fairly sure that Ron’s Gone Wrong … but he might be your “Best Friend Out of the Box”!
SNAPSHOTRon’s Gone Wrong will feature a touching and hilarious look at the budding friendship between a middle-school boy and his faulty robot. It tells the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend Out of Continue Reading
Thoughts on The Kominsky Method: The final season
Chuck Lorre, sitcom creator extraordinaire is not normally known for his subtlety. His sitcoms are designed to be brash, obvious and funny and if ratings success is any guide – he is the creative force behind Dharma & Greg, Mom, and The Big Bang Theory, among many others – he Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tomorrow War
There are times when you crave, when you need, a big heapin’ helpin’ of big dumb blockbuster fun. Switch off the brain, park your critical faculties in neutral and surrender yourself to a glorious onslaught of sight, sound and action that’s bonkers bananas and yet somehow weirdly satisfying. Technically that Continue Reading
Book review: Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson
People coming together in found families is something particularly new or original in literature of late, a theme that has found currency in our ironically disconnected digital age where finding your tribe has been a prevailing need for many lost souls in search of an emotional home. So, the fact Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Unhappy to see you again with The Addams Family 2
SNAPSHOTEveryone’s favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all-new movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Continue Reading
Book review: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
In a world where many feel justice is scant and those in power or with the means to insulate themselves from consequence seem to get off scot-free far more than they don’t, there’s something intrinsically compelling about mystery and crime novels that often the reader the chance to experience the Continue Reading
Have a Merry Madagascar! #ChristmasInJuly
Much as I love the idea of Santa with his “a little round belly /That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly” and his eight magical reindeer and delivering all those presents around the world with seamless efficiency and jollity, there is something a little creepy about Continue Reading
In the middle of COVID lockdown, I put 5 new pop culture ornaments on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
It’s not looking like the most festive of Julys at the moment. A combination of complacency and Australian Federal Government ineptitude with quarantining returning overseas travellers and the vaccine rollout mean Sydney, where I live, is deep in the midst of a fortnight lockdown, that may yet get extended by Continue Reading