When I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel a good chunk of years ago, two things stood out for me in a novel full of clever and emotionally resonant storytelling. First, that the author possessed a brilliant capacity for imaginative world-building, for predicting what might lie just over 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!
Songs, songs and more songs #143: half•alive, Mitch Tambo, Logic1000, Priyanka & Lemon + Ladyhawke
(via Shutterstock) There’s something about just the right song that can lift a mood or soothe the soul or simply make you feel lighter and airier than life is allowing for at a given time. Honestly, I can’t fathom how you can possibly get through life without music soundtracking the Continue Reading
Movie review: Coyote vs. Acme
(courtesy IMP Awards) We’ve become so used to the well-structured cycle of movie hype and promo, which always finishes with the release of said ballyhooed film either in the cinema or a streaming platform, that the idea that you could make a film and actually never released it, not because Continue Reading
Life is a rollercoaster: Thoughts on Trying S5
(courtesy IMP Awards) Making all your dreams come true is an intoxicating feeling, but what happens when the dust settles and reality bites and you have to deal with the fact that the dream may be wonderful but it has some thorns attached with all the floral zest and colour? Continue Reading
Sci-fi September book review: Scion by James Islington
(courtesy Text Publishing) One of the things that makes or breaks a sci-fi novel is how well an author establishes a sense of evocatively definitive time and place; half-do it and you find it hard to imagine the world they create as anything real or tangible, potentially hobbling the ability Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The emotional canine journeying of Archie
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTArchie is devastated to learn of the death of his beloved aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she’s left him in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog. Archie is written and created by Domenica Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4 review: “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass” (E7) and “Orders of Magnitude” (E8)
(courtesy Memory Alpha) “Like Chronotons Through the Hourglass” One of the best things about Star Trek storytelling in general and Strange New Worlds (SNW) in particular, is its ability to channel what I like to call the “Nordic Effect”. In essence, it’s the co-existence of both light and dark in Continue Reading
A trio of triumphantly tantalising trailers: Whalefall, The Cat in the Hat and Below
(via Shutterstock) How can you not love going to the movies? Look at the dazzling variety in these three films alone – a gripping if fantastical thriller, a garrulously chaotic animated delight based on an iconic Dr Seuss book and some seriously Halloween adjacent supernatural goings-on in an otherwise ordinary Continue Reading
Sci-fi September book review: Massif by Garth Nix
(courtesy Allen & Unwin – Australia) One of the reasons this reviewer loves science fiction is because at its heart, it is devoted to exploring, thinking through and celebrating big ideas; woven into its storytelling DNA is an impelling need to peek behind the curtain, to wonder why things are Continue Reading
Italian Film Festival movie review: Life is Life (La vita va così)
(courtesy IMDb) If there’s one thing audiences love, it’s a David vs. Goliath tale. In the real world, we sigh inwardly and rail with quiet fury, and often not-so-quiet fury, at the gross injustices of companies not paying tax and in effect screwing over the public they serve, fascistic politicians Continue Reading