SNAPSHOTYou’ve never met penguins like these before. Forget ice and snow, this rowdy colony of African penguins are hitting the sun-drenched beaches and breaking all the rules. Filled with boisterous shenanigans and loads of adorable penguins, this eight-part series from Red Rock Films about the real lives of African penguins 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!
It’s time to Dance Alone with THE ROOP #Eurovision
Regardless of your thoughts about who won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – it was Italy by the way with “Zitti E Buoni” by Måneskin and yes, for the record, I actually quite liked its glam rock intensity though I was not so secretly hoping France or Switzerland might win Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival movie review: Just Say Yes
Like most genres of cinema, really all if we’re being totally honest, romantic comedies march solidly and determinedly to a set and little varied formula. It makes sense – if people are watching you for an idealised vision of falling in love and the romanticised delights of happily ever after, Continue Reading
Get ready to have an explosively good time with Gunpowder Milkshake
SNAPSHOTSam (Karen Gillan) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into Continue Reading
Book review – Over My Dead Body: Murder at #Eurovision by Christoph Fischer
The Eurovision Song Contest, as befits a singing competition marking it 65th anniversary this year, is a great many things – gloriously and deliciously over the top, a great promotional vehicle for aspiring singers or those looking to revive their career, as camp as Christmas and a brilliant way to Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival: 5 Dutch music artists – Pink Oculus, De Staat, Fatima Yamaha, My Baby, BEA1991
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is delivering a ton of great and quirky music in the Netherlands’ city of Rotterdam but what about music made in the country itself? Some of it will be featured during the semi-finals and grand final, a nod to the Eurovision tradition of showcasing the Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival TV review: Toon (season 1)
If you have ever felt that life is sweeping you fiercely and rapidly along to some great moment that is undeniably wonderful but most definitely not of your choosing, then you will find much with which to identify with the titular protagonist in Toon, a 2016 TV comedy from Dirk Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival book review: The Pelican by Martin Michael Driessen
It may not be wholly or completely so but there is good case to be made that life is, simply by virtue of its underwhelming existence, more than a little disappointing. Quite what it is most of us are expecting is never really clear but if pushed, there’s a good Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Gert and the Sacred Stones by Marco Rocchi and Francesca Carità
Diving into a fully-realised fantasy world is one of life’s great inestimable pleasures. No matter where you are or what you are doing, escaping into a world such as the one exquisitely and immersively well-realised as the one in Gert and the Sacred Stones by the Italian team writer Marco Continue Reading
Book review: Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
In its usual state of busyness and activity, it is easy to think that your life is exactly where it’s meant to be. After all, who, in the pell-mell rush to get life done ever really has the time to stop and consider what it is they really want from Continue Reading