SNAPSHOTUnable to watch her father waste away from a mysterious illness, fierce warrior Yenni, of the Yirba tribe, sets off for a distant empire. Determined to find a cure for her father, Yenni travels to Cresh, where she comes face to face with culture shock, prejudice, and a brazen shape-shifting 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: A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
Life is often a heartbreakingly beautiful mix of the good and the bad, the joyful and the morose, the ugly and the poetic. Life’s torturously contrary state of being is captured in all its tarnished glory by Mathangi Subramanian in her debut novel A People’s History of Heaven which centres Continue Reading
Awww stormtroopers are (alien) cat people too
SNAPSHOTI Miss You is a touching animated short created by artist Henrik Tomenius about a Stormtrooper missing his cute little alien cat who is far, far away. (synopsis (c) Laughing Squid) I’m a Rebel Alliance kind of guy. I want the goodies to win … and the baddies? Well, I want them to be bested, Continue Reading
Classic book review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
For a species wholly enamoured with its ability to stick around for the duration, humanity displays a surprising obsession with apocalyptic endings to its existence. Try zombies, alien invasions, viral epidemics, global warming, asteroid impacts, supernatural calamities … the list goes on and on and on. To this list of Continue Reading
Movie review: Jojo Rabbit
If there is one topic that is guaranteed, in something approaching land speed records, to set the ideological cat among the pigeons, it is anything to do with the Nazi era in Germany. It’s hardly surprising – in 12 years horrifically destructive years the Nazis led by Adolf Hitler enacted Continue Reading
Three invigoratingly indie movie trailers – Standing Up, Falling Down + The Kindness of Strangers + A Simple Wedding
There is something about character-driven films that really engage you in a movie. Granted, the really good blockbusters also have strong characterisation too and without it are just a lot of special effects signifying not much of anything, but it’s the indies, the smaller, human-focused dramas and comedies that really Continue Reading
Trio of tremendous TV trailers: Sex Education S2, Insecure S4 and Nora From Queens
I love TV. I also don’t have enough time for TV. Well, all the shows I want to watch anyway and in this age of Peak TV, that is more shows than I can possible keep track of (and pixels know, I’ve tried!) and watch in a lifetime. Still, the Continue Reading
Book review: Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Forging your own way in life is never easy. Society has a way, a very persuasive and often long entrenched way, of enforcing set ideas about appearance, behaviour, morality, sexuality and career choices, among a host of other things, that leave little wiggle room for those not inclined to adhere Continue Reading
Yeehaa compagno and compagna! The Mandalorian gets the Spaghetti Western treatment
Defined as a “broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone’s film-making style and international box-office success”, Spaghetti Westerns are brilliantly, wonderfully over the top. They were a big deal with over 600 Euro-Westerns made between 1960 and 1978 and given their Continue Reading
Movie review: Just Mercy
Every cinematic genre comes with its own hard-and-fast rules, tropes and cliches that are invariably observed by filmmakers simply because as narrative devices go, they work. The trick of course is how much originality to bring to these oft-hallowed elements so your film feels like something fresh and unique even Continue Reading