SNAPSHOTGifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Sheila (Marin Ireland) is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard (Jim Gaffigan), a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues — which 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: It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
Transition points in life are never easy. Oh, we’d like to think they are, or at least will be, since as much as we dread all the change and disruption, we’re also usually quietly (or loudly) excited about the idea that something new and different could be coming down the Continue Reading
“I know what happens when you die … you becomes a ghost”: The shadowy explosive world of Underground 6
SNAPSHOTRyan Reynolds stars as a ghost… as in, someone who faked his own death, scrubbed his record, and now moves about as a phantom operative. What’s the best part about being a ghost? “The freedom”, Reynolds says in the trailer. The Deadpool actor, re-teaming with Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #17: FKA Twigs, BANKS, Oh Wonder, Charlie XCX, Snow Patrol
Take off your shoes. Sit a spell. Kick back and let your mind wander to things big and small. Or if you’re the five artists featured in this week’s post, ponder the many and varied ways life happens to us and how beautifully and profoundly they can be expressed. Whether Continue Reading
This place is so dead: Handy 3-minute summary of Zombieland (and things to know before Zombieland 2)
SNAPSHOTAfter a virus turns most people into zombies, the world’s surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the hungry undead. Four survivors — Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and his cohorts Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) — abide by a list of survival rules Continue Reading
Comics review: Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell
What’s the first thing you look for when you’re deciding if a particular locale is worthy of your hard-earned tourist dollar? Great accommodation? Sublimely-good food? Stellar attractions? Outstanding natural beauty? Scary monsters? Sorry … wait … what what?! You heard me … MONSTERS. In Rob Harrell‘s (Big Top, Adam@Home) delightful Continue Reading
Book review: Ice-Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
When you are taking in the enormity of a major moment in history, it is easy to forget that behind the epic events lie a multiplicity of individual stories. We may see a monolithic whole but it only exists because a host of people all major contributing personal systems that Continue Reading
Movie review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Attempting to nimbly hop like a gazelle on steroids from one medium to another does not always work for every pop culture property. What works delightfully in one may fall to the ground with a dull thud or smashing roar in another, with the essence of what made the character Continue Reading
A celebration of creativity and silliness: The Jim Henson Company Sizzle Reel
I wrote some weeks ago Twitter that Jim Henson was the creator of much of the happiness of my childhood. That may sound like an unholy dissing of those nearest and dearest to me, and of Indian food and cheesecakes, two of the culinary touchpoints of growing up for me, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Healthy food with a side order of pop culture
Laleh Mohmedi is an immensely-creative person. A food artist and mother, Mohmedi has never been content to provide pedestrian food offerings to her son Jacob, resulting in meals that are not only vibrantly healthy but striking in their evocation of a vitally-imaginary host of pop culture characters. The delight of Continue Reading