SNAPSHOTRaya and the Last Dragon takes us on an exciting, epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil 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!
Book review: The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
There is a giddy escapist loveliness to people falling in love, a reassuring sense that the world night be cruel and quite nasty at times but good things still dwell within its blighted surrounds. Usually when two people are falling in love, however, it’s because they’ve met in one of Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “Now in Color” and “We Interrupt This Program” (S1, E 3 and 4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTORTED REALITY OF GRIEF … Even in the first two classic sitcom-styled episodes of WandaVision, one of the best shows to hit any screen in quite some time, it became patently obvious that all was not well in the suburban idyllic world of Westview, New Continue Reading
Book review: The History of Living Forever by Jake Wolff
Ah, the heady lure of immortality – what is there not to find attractive about the idea of living forever? Almost nothing if the motivations of the characters in Jake Wolff’s unconventionally plotted race to the immortal finish line, The History of Living Forever is any guide. In this sometimes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Croods – A New Age
The far, far past was a dangerous time for humanity. What with carnivorous, hyper-coloured kangaroo/armadillo hybrids, jagged ice trees that surge from the ground with no warning, landscapes that range from deserty and rocky to dangerously giant bug-filled and earnest post-cave dwelling hipsters, there was a lot that could go Continue Reading
Book review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
There is a profound beauty and sense of completion that comes into being when someone is finally able to be authentically who they are. No more hiding, no more deception, to themselves or others, a giddy sense of self acceptance that becomes all the more potent when others also accept Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The touching search for love in Unbreakable
SNAPSHOT“Unbreakable” is the story of Barbara the Bunny. When she begins to persistently cough, “Quality Control” at the toy factory labels her “defective,” and so her search for treatment begins. She goes from shop to shop to no avail, until she discovers a loose string of yarn that takes her Continue Reading
Movie review: High Ground
Films, by and large, and this is by no means a hard and fast rule, either fall into two distinct camps – those you watch and those you experience. High Ground, a superlatively affecting Australian film, directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson to a screenplay by Chris Anastassiades (from a story Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lifeformed – Cleo Makes Contact (vol. 1) and Hearts and Minds (vol. 2) by Matt Mair Lowery and Cassie Anderson
Alien invasions are, for the most part, treated as popcorn-chomping blockbuster spectacles replete with big epic action sequences, lives in mortal and imminent danger and big stakes battles between good (us; for once) and evil (most certainly them). They do not generally have time, what with all the awe-inspiring spaceship Continue Reading
Life is space is really animated – Thoughts on Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 1)
Star Trek is serious. Very, very SERIOUS. Sure, it can be goofy at times – think “The Trouble With Tribbles” (The Original Series), “Deja Q” (The Next Generation), “Body and Soul” (Voyager) and “Our Man Bashir” (Deep Space Nine) – but mostly it is all Prime Directives, deadly “Away Missions” Continue Reading