Trauma affects us all in different ways. Some people bury the resulting hurt and pain so deeply that it never sees the light of day again, pretending that everything is fine, just fine thank you, while others exhume it, sort through it and dispense with it, glad it has been 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!
Comics review: The Thrilling Adventure Hour – Martian Manhunt
Fighting battles of any kind on Mars would be, you would have to think given its otherworldliness and hostility to life, be a fairly big deal. After all, it’s not like you’re duking it out on the green, green grass of home. But in The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt, Continue Reading
BRRRR! Snowpiercer speeds its way finally to a TV or streaming device near you
SNAPSHOTSnowpiercer is set in 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland and follows the remnants of humanity who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. The show questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival. (synopsis courtesy Wikipedia) While everyone is currently Continue Reading
Movie review: Uncorked
Whether they are self-imposed or imposed from outside, the weight of expectations can weight heavily on someone’s life. While the more militant among us might decry the pressure these expectations bring and simply urge those afflicted to push them off and carry on as if they were never there, the Continue Reading
Book review: The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #1) by M. R. Carey
In a world connected by jet planes, the internet and worldwide production chains, we take it as a given that getting things done fast and staying connected as we do so will always be a fact of life. But prolific writer M. R. Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts, Continue Reading
Get ready to travel to Strange New Worlds: Pike returns to Star Trek!
SNAPSHOTCBS All Access has ordered a full series of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, based on the years where Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) helms the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series will feature Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 fan favorites Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 7 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK
This is normally how I begin these review posts … What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is Continue Reading
Book review: The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle
When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, there are a million different things (or it feels like that, anyway) that you have to deal with, usually in a very short amount of time. What’s my prognosis? Are my options plentiful or not? Should I undergo chemotherapy or Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #27: Aquilo, Ane Brun, Price Park & Jade Alice, uomo, Porter Robinson
Life is busy and wonderful and exhausting and full of a million things to contemplate normally, even more so when things take a very dark turn like they have in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Processing it all can sometimes feel like an impossible task, beyond anything we can Continue Reading
At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Gaspard at the Wedding (Gaspard Va Au Mariage) #MovieReview
Released in 2017, Gaspard va au Mariage or Gaspard at the Wedding is a genre defier par excellence. With an adroit narrative zest courtesy of writer/director Antony Cordier, the film leaps with beguiling, quirky grace from romantic comedy to lo-fi family drama to a gently farcical comedy, all while remaining Continue Reading