We are accustomed when sit down to watch a disaster movie to the fact that spectacle, horrific, viscerally terrible spectacle, will win out over emotional nuance and robust, multi-dimensional characterisation almost every time. It’s part of the deal from filmmakers of this genre – we give you a ringside seat 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!
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Moxie + Jump, Darling + Jumbo
Quirky and heartfelt are two qualities I value most highly in a film. If you can offer both these wonderful things, and throw in some great visuals and stunning good performances, I am home and hosed. That’s why these three films appeal. They have a certain offbeat sense of self, Continue Reading
Book review: End of Time by Gavin Extence
If there is one thing that has become clear in the last couple of decades, it’s that people, never very good it must said at the best of times at looking beyond their own self interest, have developed an empathy deficit of frighteningly gaping proportions. In a world where war, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
Smash the patriarchy! That may sound like a militantly abrasive way to start a review about a graphic novel but truth be told, it’s the perfect encapsulation of Hannah Templer’s Cosmoknights, queer story about three women who roam the galaxy seeking to bring a feudalesque system that for all its Continue Reading
Book review: No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
ARC courtesy Blackstone Publishing (via NetGalley) – release date 21 September 2021. Humanity by and large is not a fan of things that go bump in the night. Or for that matter the creatures we imagine dwell in the shadows or which don’t conform to our idea of what is Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Lapsis, Atlantis, Supernova, The Wanting Mare, Bliss
There is utterly beguiling about falling into a cinematic story, letting its long and winding narrative settled over you, immerse you and take you deep into its storytelling wonder. Given the fact that the pandemic continues to wreak havoc in ways big and small across the globe, we need this Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #42: Jean Dawson, beabadoobee, Big Freedia, YDE, Baby Queen + Eurovision 2021 update
Honesty. Truthfulness. Authenticity. They’re all powerful words and they describe powerful states of being where all the artifice and pointless detritus of the world falls away and you are just yourself. Unapologetically, gloriously yourself. All five of the artists in this selection know exactly what that feels like and their Continue Reading
Book review: Mount Pleasant by Adam Byatt
Humanity, it must be said, loves a bit of personal PR. It’s not necessarily a deliberate thing; we don’t step out the door each day, or in these COVID-blighted times, appear on a Zoom call, with the deliberate intention of making ourselves look as good as possible. But our inadvertent Continue Reading
Movie review: Penguin Bloom
If you were to be given a description of the basic premise of Penguin Bloom in broad, top level brushstrokes, you could well be forgiven for thinking that it’s another in a long line on sweetly inspirational, sentimentality run amuck cinematic stories that tug mightily at the heartstrings, rip your Continue Reading
Comics review: Pretty Violent by Derek Hunter + Jason Young + Spencer Holt
Ya gotta hand it to Gamma Rae – she likes to dream big! Superhero big, in fact, and she’s not going to let a pesky thing like a family stacked to the corrupt rafters with zombie-creating, thieving, murderous criminals out her off achieving her lofty goals. But even the protagonist Continue Reading