There are, so the cliched-inclined tell us, only two things that are certain in life – death and taxes. To this exceptionally short and likely inaccurate list, a great many people might also add, that the sequel to a hit movie will inevitably be a woeful and unmitigated mess, or 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!
The short and the short of it: Concrete and finding your place in the world
SNAPSHOTTroubled by his own reoccurring transformations, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. Through a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the midst of a barren swampland, he hopes to have finally found such a place. (synopsis via YouTube Short of the Week) Concrete, despite its many Continue Reading
Book review: Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart
It is always a delight to come across a novel that embodies the very best of a genre and yet also manages to be its own marvellously unique creation. Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart sits very much in that rarefied camp, a book that manages to give Agatha Christie Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Inkblot (issues 1 – 5) by Emma Kubert and Rusty Gladd
We’ve all had bad days at work, right? Sent an email with highly confidential comments meant for one person and one person only to Reply All. Or we’ve accidentally deleted a document we spent all day on and no amount of IT wizardry can summon it back from the Microsoft Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “In Dreams” / “J.D.” (S6, E12 & E13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DEATH, IMAGINED AND REAL WITH BATTLES TO COME … You could well argue that life in the zombie apocalypse is so weird and strange for all its grinding, violent realism, that there is no need to get caught in a surreal dream set in the same Continue Reading
Book review: Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
If you have been paying attention to the world of late, wrapped up rather despairingly as it is in pandemic, war, climate change and creeping intolerance and extremism, it will not surprise you that hope is in short supply for many people. How can it possibly assert itself in any Continue Reading
Movie review: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Can you contain the searing truth and undeniable essence of a powerfully true story in a less than adventurous vessel? Usually not, and yet in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels to screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, that is essentially what happens as we Continue Reading
Trailers aplenty and a lot! Jungle Cruise, Tomorrow War, Physical, Kevin Can F–k Himself, Gunpowder Milkshake
I can’t keep up! I literally do not have the time to watch all the amazing TV shows and movies coming my way, tantalisingly good storytelling gems that come at me through cinema, TV, and streaming platforms. And yet, AND YET, that does stop this boy dreaming that he will Continue Reading
Book review: Nancy Business by R. W. R. McDonald
Grief does not have an expiry date. Oh, there are many who thinks that’s exactly what it has, a fixed moment in time which, when reached, magically dissolves all the pain, trauma and loss of having to say goodbye to someone infinitely special, taking with it the complex and unpredictable Continue Reading
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: Official coffee table book tells the story of Schitt’s Creek
Schitt’s Creek is one of the most clever, funny and heartfelt shows that’s ever appeared on TV/streaming platforms/the entire world’s consciousness. Co-created by son and father Daniel and Eugene Levy, the show started small but grew into a zeitgeist dominating and ward-heavy sitcom hit, the sort of show that possesses Continue Reading