These are troubling times we live in which means that reality is, most days, something not many of us really want to face. Thank goodness then for TV and streaming shows and movies, all of which give us the sweet, SWEET chance to let lose the bonds of grinding humdrum 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!
Fear the Walking Dead: “Handle With Care” / “The Holding” (S6, E10 & E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … STOLEN GUNS AND WACKO CULTISTS …SO BUSINESS AS USUAL THEN? It is a rare thing indeed for any TV show to excite you with its writing so much that you punch the air and almost leap out of the chair with the pleasure of watching a finely-honed Continue Reading
Movie review: Land
A haunting, deeply affecting painful, and yet hopeful beauty suffuses every last meditative moment of Land, a film that tackles the often misunderstood issue of grief in ways both nuanced and confronting. Directed by Robin Wright, Land tells the story of Edee (played by Wright), a woman so consumed by Continue Reading
Book review: Falling by T. J. Newman
ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 2 June 2021 in Australia. There is a certain familiarity that comes with airline hijacking narratives. Naturally, there is always a sense of mounting tension as innocent parties embark on what they think will be a trouble-free journey only to discover that their flight Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The Empire Strikes Back #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Pity the sequel to a blockbuster first film. Like the second sibling in a family where the eldest born cured cancer, fed the world’s poor and made successful and beneficial contact with aliens, all before the age of five, a sequel to a massively successful movie has an almost crushing Continue Reading
Book review – The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View by various authors #MayThe4thBeWithYou
The first three movies released in what has now been christened either the Star Wars Saga or The Skywalker Saga – these are now, of course, episodes four through six – are so imaginatively and expansively created that it is hard to imagine how you could possibly add anything further Continue Reading
Book review: The Audacity of Sara Grayson by Joani Elliott
ARC courtesy Simon & Schuster (via NetGalley) – release date 25 May 2021. There is a certain romanticisation about writing that dwells steadfastly in the hearts of anyone who hasn’t actually written. Truth be told, it probably resides in the souls of those who do write; however, there it is Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 5 – North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Movie review: Stowaway
It makes sense that there is an abundance of films set in the near or far depths of space. It is, after all, one of the most hostile environments known to humanity, a place inimical to life where, if peril threatens, there are little to no options for rescue or Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #48: Kito, Vanjess & Channel Tres, Amy Shark, Jagwar Ma, AlunaGeorge, Wallows
I love new music. There’s something about hearing the latest and the greatest and knowing that this song, or these songs to be more accurate most of the time, will be with you for the duration. But then there’s also something great about discovering tracks you somehow missed from ages Continue Reading