Let’s get away from the everyday! How so, you ask? Why with movies, I say, and especially these three movies which give you a chance to live out three impactful stories from the comfort of your own bed or loungeroom chair. Or even, heaven forbid, your commute on public transport 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!
Docowatch: Secrets of the Whales
Humanity is by all accounts a remarkable species. However, for all that remarkability, we are also beset by an impressive number of flaws, one of which is the religiously encouraged arrogance that we are the unbridled, unstoppable masters of the universe. It is an arrogance that borne of the likely Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Fall (Volume 1) by Jared Muralt
Among the current, quite understandable, surfeit of apocalyptic and dystopian literature – a product of both a long-term decline in peoples’ faith in many things including governing bodies and the state of the world, and the seemingly never ending COVID pandemic – there is a very welcome trend that posits Continue Reading
Book review: The Coward (Quest for Heroes #1) by Stephen Aryan
ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 31 August 2021 in Australia. At the very least, a good fantasy story should allow you to escape the often dreadfully predictable bonds of the everyday and escape into a world that’s nothing like the one you see on your daily commute or when Continue Reading
Book review: Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West
ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 7 July 2021 in Australia. There is a great and abiding darkness in Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West which belies its setting in the bucolically sunny climes of the NSW South Coast, specifically the popular tourist town of Kiama, known most famously Continue Reading
Movie review: First Cow
It’s a cold, cruel world out there, where friendship and companionship can be the difference between making it and losing everything all alone. That was a true back on the American frontier in the eighteenth century as it is now, something that First Cow, the latest film by writer and Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 4 – Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova
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
Book review: Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
It’s a rare thing for anyone to ever have an abiding sense of destiny. Sure, many of us might have a fairly strong sense of where it is we want to head in life or who we would like to be, but knowing deep in the very fabric of our Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Door” / “Things Left To Do” (S6, E8 & E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … GOODBYES TO A FRIEND AND AN ENEMY AND THE MOST UNDEAD AUTO SERVICE YOU’VE EVER SEEN … One of the great hallmarks of Fear the Walking Dead from the very beginning has been its willingness to explore the horrific toll that something as cataclysmically devastating as the Continue Reading
Book review: Something to Live For by Richard Roper
Trauma has its own corrosive way of stopping life in its tracks. For many people it is a transitory thing, a period of loss and grieving that immobilises them temporarily but which eventually gives way to some form of healing and tentative then more confident steps forward to something new Continue Reading