SPOILERS AHEAD It’s obvious from the moment you see the all-singing, all-singing, technicolour quirky trailer for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist that this is one show that knows its way around a whimsical storyline. It practically shouts out in every gleefully-delivered frame that Zoey Clarke (played by Suburgatory‘s (Jane Levy) is a 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!
How far would you go to bring back the one you love? Archive asks the big questions
SNAPSHOT2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife. (synopsis via ScreenRealm) When you lose someone you Continue Reading
Book review: Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks
Finding a place to call home is all any of us really want. We may talk about a thousand and one other needs and wants but if really pressed, and everything else is taken away from us, all that matters is that we have people to whom we are connected Continue Reading
Time to go to Palm Springs … again … and again … and again … and, well, you get the picture …
SNAPSHOTWhen carefree Nyles (Andy Samberg) and reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti) have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, of each other. Alongside Golden Globe winner Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, SNL), Palm Springs also stars Cristin Milioti (The Continue Reading
Book review: Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
ARC courtesy Hachette Australia – release date 28 July 2020. We are a people who exist uneasily between expectation and consequence. In our heady younger days particularly, but even as we get older, especially if we are optimistically inclined, we can’t help but approach a given situation with the fixed Continue Reading
Will you survive? COVID-19 and social isolation explained by a supercut of horror and sci-fi films
COVID-19 just won’t go away will it? It has wiped normal off the agenda as an everyday concept, caused untold misery, loss and heartache and changed life as we know it for the considerable future. We have all muddled through as best we can but is there a better way? Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #29: Petit Biscuit, Ellie Goulding, Julia Jean-Baptiste, Astrid S, CLIO
Life and love comes with more than their fair share of challenges and it’s safe to say that much as we would like a magic wand to be waved, there are no easy solutions to many of the things that vex and beset us (those two words don’t get used Continue Reading
Book review: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
If there’s one thing a space opera worth its galactic salt needs as much as a rip-roaring endlessly expansive narrative, it’s a larger-than-life protagonist as its core. You know the kind – a take-no-prisoners, swashbuckling soul who dares to challenge the orthodoxies and powers that be of the day and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Alive, 7500, Blithe Spirit
Zombies and ghosts and … airline pilots? Oh my! Today’s mini-mass of trailers is a mixed bunch but all of them involve peril of one kind or another, which makes for the best kind of visceral drama. With COVID-19 continuing to lay waste to our world and to any concept Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Inking pop culture fun into your life
SNAPSHOT“Tattoo culture is very small, loving, and supportive. My tattooer friends and I are trying our best to show everyone that tattoos are nothing less than an expression of art. …I tried to find a way to express my classical painting knowledge within a size that could fit people who Continue Reading