Diving into a story fit to bursting with vivid imagination and expansive leaps of inspired storytelling is one of life’s great pleasures. And since Eight Outcast, with story and art by Rafael Albuquerque and script by Mike Johnson, is brilliantly and imaginatively told such that when reading you often gasp 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!
Hello Popular Space Show: The Next Generation! How goes your sci-fi parodying?
SNAPSHOTEvery episode of Popular Space Show: The Next Generation. I can’t believe I shaved my head for this. (synopsis via YouTube) Watching science fiction, even the very best exponents of the genre, does involve a considerable suspension of belief. After all, apart from rovers landing on Mars and probes hurtling Continue Reading
Book review: The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas
If anyone understands the complicated nuance involved in realising your dreams, it is author Kate Mascarenhas. In The Thief on the Winged Horse, Mascarenhas explores peoples’ manipulation of destiny and fate from the point of view of three divergent characters, all of whom are challenging the status quo in their Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Breaking the Fourth Wall” (S1, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ALL KINDS OF VERY COOL REVEALS (THE FULL IMPORT OF WHICH DEPENDS ON AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF MARVEL COMIC BOOK LORE) … Holy hiding in plain sight, WandaVision! Yes, that is an unholy melding of DC and Marvel for which this reviewer will likely suffer death Continue Reading
Docowatch: Secrets of the Saqarra Tomb
A well-made documentary about a compelling subject is always going to be a riveting thing to watch; even more so, when it takes the time to fully investigate the topic at hand and give it time to breathe and tell its story as fully and completely as it deserves. Secrets Continue Reading
Book review: Who’s Still Afraid? by Maria Lewis
If there is one thing you need when you are devotedly reading a long-running series, it’s a likeable and eminently capable protagonist who has got more going on than simply existing as a prop for the narrative. Someone like Tommi Grayson, the Scottish/New Zealander rogue werewolf who has proved many Continue Reading
Movie review: Space Sweepers (승리호)
Where did all that childlike wonderment and excitement about an idealised future go? Once upon, in our ’50s-inspired, retro fevered dreams about what might lie down the road, we pictured flying cars, clean cities full of gleaming skyscrapers and rooftop gardens and people in luminously white smocks walking through parks Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Have Heart and the existential crisis of an animated looping GIF
SNAPSHOTWill Anderson’s latest Have Heart, a humorous and relatable tale of a looping animated GIF in the midst of an existential crisis, has already charmed live audiences worldwide and is now looking to blow a few minds online. With a healthy festival run throughout 2017 and early 2018, Have Heart Continue Reading
Book review: Billie by Anna Gavalda
Billie is one of those gleefully seditious and mischievous that subverts all your expectations by packing an emotional wallop the size of the Cévennes mountains in France. That geographic reference is quite apropos to proceedings because it is where lifelong friends Billie and Franck are trapped after falling off a Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #43: FLAVIA, KRANE, San Holo, Porter Robinson, Harry Nathan
Love, so its formidable PR machine goes, is all wonderful, all the time, right? Well, no, not really; for all the people caught up in the rapture and ecstasy of the start of love’s sweet romantic journey, there are plenty of others sliding off the cliff of despair (not a Continue Reading