Life, huh? Honestly, that’s a two-word phrase that has ricocheted through my mind over and over the last 18 months as one life-interrupting curveball after another has come screaming down the existential pike, adding to the already messily complicated business of living with a host of added things that I 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!
A terrific TV trailer double: Insecure (Insecure S5) and House of the Dragon
Ah, who doesn’t love the promise of future TV/streaming? Much like booklovers stockpile more books than they can read in a lifetime – mine will one day be large enough to use as building material for a house – those of who love TV/streaming shows adore the anticipation of shows Continue Reading
Believe: Thoughts on Ted Lasso (season 1)
Being late to a much-loved and eagerly-talked about streaming phenom is a double-edged sword. Yes, you are all but guaranteed that committing to the show will be worth your time since so many people have waxed lyrical and at ardent length about it, and it’s impossible to think that you Continue Reading
Book review: Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
We talk about “finding yourself” so often these days, it sounds like it’s as simple as sitting somewhere far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, grabbing an existential map and going to places in your psyche that had hitherto eluded a visit. It is, of course, a Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Licorice Plaza, Wolf, Minyan
Finding yourself is not an easy undertaking. It doesn’t seem like that necessarily when we’re growing up; we just accept all the slings and arrows of journeying through childhood into adulthood as just the way life is but the truth is, looking back, it takes its toll. Quite how much Continue Reading
Truth does not sit well in the corridors of power: Thoughts on Foundation (episodes 1 -3)
Foundation, based on the iconic series of novel by the legendary Isaac Asimov, is one those televisual moments you experience rather than simply watch. Visually sumptuous, possessed of an expansive, imaginative sensibility and charged with taking 10 episodes to tell its cinematic tale of the rise and fall of power, Continue Reading
Once more to the galactic underworld with Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
SNAPSHOTThe Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. Star Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Heartstopper #4 by Alice Oseman
Reading the Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman, now with a fourth very much welcome volume, is like falling into an affirming beautiful world in which anything is possible. It’s not perfect by any measure and Oseman goes to great lengths to be frank and honest about the challenges of love, Continue Reading
There’s a little magic in all of us … almost all of us: Encanto (new trailer and poster)
SNAPSHOTThis Fall, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ all-new film Encanto takes you to Colombia, where a magical family live in a magical home. The film is centered on a young girl and her family in Colombia, who all have magical powers, but, sadly, the young girl has no powers. Encanto is Continue Reading
Movie review: Free Guy
There’s a gloriously good key scene in Free Guy which nails precisely what this joyously manic film is all about. After a series of wake-up shots, where Guy (Ryan Reynolds in garrulously vulnerable form) has woken up at the same time in the exact same way with hallmarks of the Continue Reading