(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOT“A new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.” The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. The series is set in a present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico that faced an abrupt change away from the world as it is known. Pluribus is a sci-fi 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: Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) The grand and noble quest across vast distance in pursuit of the decisive victory of good over evil is a staple of fantasy novels. It crops up again and again and for very good reason – here is the perfect vehicle for putting disparate people together, Continue Reading
Movie review: French Lover
(courtesy IMDb) Let’s be clear right from the start – French Lover doesn’t exactly reinvent the romantic comedy model. Channelling a very Notting Hill vibe but with the status of the sexes reversed, French Lover takes a charming and very funny journey of two people, one a famous A-list movie Continue Reading
Just can’t get enough … Thoughts on English Teacher S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) On the surface, and what a thoroughly entertaining surface it is, English Teacher, now in its second season, is a series about goofily relatable teachers at a high school in Austin, Texas, possessed of witty banter, life weary observances and the need to have their wits about Continue Reading
Take the plunge with the fun new trailer for The Pout-Pout Fish
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo aquatic misfits embark on an impossible journey to save their home. Living on a rundown shipwreck, Mr. Fish discovers a hyperactive young sea dragon Pip – who had mistaken his home for a junkyard – pilfering his belongings. The heated argument that ensues leaves both their Continue Reading
Book review: Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood
(courtesy Text Publishing) Life, so youthful expectation dreamily romanticises, is supposed to fall into all kinds of predictable (and, of course, satisfyingly successful) places. But as we all soon discover, some more than others, life is not to be dictated to, benignly and excitedly or otherwise, and so what often Continue Reading
Christmas movie preview: Jingle Bell Heist, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Champagne Problems + My Secret Santa
(via Shutterstock) If you have only ever paid passing attention to this blog, and seriously, why would you not dive into its wonderfully eclectic depths (a conversation for another time perhaps?), you will realise that I LOVE Christmas. LOVE. IT. The apartments gets decorated within an inch of its life. Continue Reading
Movie review: Tron: Ares
(courtesy IMP Awards) Movie trilogies are often, though not always, governed by the wholly unforgiving law of diminishing returns. What was vital and fresh in the first film becomes diluted though often still appealing in the second film all of which means that by the third instalment, there is a Continue Reading
Book review: The Maskeys by Stuart Everly-Wilson
(courtesy Transit Lounge Publishing) Despite this book’s title, The Maskeys, and no, this does not require a spoiler alert, are not the centrepiece of the novel which bears their rather blighted name. Penned by Stuart Everly-Wilson, who brought us the superlatively good Low Expectations, The Maskeys revolves instead around Rodney, Continue Reading
Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading