You could be forgiven for thinking that the Caroline Vignal-directed film, Antoinette in the Cévennes (Antoinette dans les Cévennes), is just one big long romantic screwball romp were you to rely on the trailer alone. Certainly there are elements of visual slapstick in the film – if you have ever 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!
Fantastic characters and amazing creatures: The many faces of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOTDoug Jones is an actor mostly known for portraying inhuman creatures, usually via heavy make-up and/or visual effects in films and television series. He’s also the go-to colossus in the movies of monster king Guillermo del Toro, first appearing in Mimic and later portraying both the Faun and the Pale Continue Reading
Book review: Driving Stevie Fracasso by Barry Divola
Mix wit and whimsy with hard emotional truth is not the easiest of literary alchemies but Barry Divola manages it near-flawlessly with his debut novel, Driving Stevie Fracasso. Promising one of those revelatory road trip adventures where fun is had but epiphanies, both existential and familial are thick on the Continue Reading
No, no, no, no, no … Farewell Trevor Peacock (Vicar of Dibley) who made the negative sound so gloriously, happily positive #RIP
For a man who did nothing but make me laugh, Trevor Peacock, who is best known for playing Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, has certainly left me very sad today. In a cast of superbly talented actors who brought their gloriously well created characters to life with comic Continue Reading
Movie review: Raya and the Last Dragon
Animation by its very limitless nature is always predisposed to taking us to places that enchant and enthrall our imaginations. In a world that, for all its wonder and expanse, has quite firm parameters on what can and can’t happen, animation offers the chance for filmmakers to go all out Continue Reading
Book review: The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
Life, we have all sagely observed at one point or another, does not come with a great many, if any, guarantees. One of the few things we can all agree is relatively set in stone is how we were raised and how that upbringing shaped who we are as adults Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Previously On” and “The Series Finale” (E1, S8 & S9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WANDA KNOWS IT — AND SHE FEELS FINE? NOT SO MUCH MAYBE … This is a tale of two WandaVision episodes. In the first, episode 8, “Previously On”, the title of which was a promotional staple of week-to-week episodic TV, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Thing About Harry #queerscreen
The Thing About Harry is a deceptively simple film. It looks for all the world, which is quite appropriate because it is, like your usual pleasantly-delivered, joyously light and fluffy romantic comedy replete with attraction, misunderstanding and eventual coming together, the kind that makes the heart swoon and the world Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The soothing brilliance of night skies over Colorado
SNAPSHOTImagine if you could see the Milky Way from your front porch? If you live in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado, you can. The valley is home to Westcliffe and Silver Cliff International Dark-Sky Association Dark Sky Communities, where night sky quality is shielded from excessive light pollution through Continue Reading
Movie review: Nomadland
There are movies, and they are surprisingly few and far between (despite what the endless awards ceremonies may decide and confer), which says an extraordinarily moving amount about the human condition in a voice barely above a whisper. As a society, we tend to associate loud and vocal with important Continue Reading