Video clips are a brilliant way to promote a song. If the artist can’t be where you are, and let’s face it that’s more often the case than not given the burdensome constraints of corporeality, they are the perfect means of bringing the artist to you. Not at all video 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!
Movie review: David Attenborough – A Life On Our Planet
For a species that has been around for a good 300,000 years or so in various evolutionary iterations, humanity has an astonishingly short attention span and an almost alarming inability to see beyond the immediate. You could argue that entirely the opposite is the case, using as your examples the Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: If all the fictional world was Polly Pocket
SNAPSHOTNowadays kids have iPads, Netflix, and the Internet to keep them entertained. But back in the 90s, there were few things more exciting than getting hold of the latest Polly Pocket. To recreate that feeling for 2020, our team has imagined what would happen if Polly Pocket decided to ‘do Continue Reading
Movie review: The Broken Hearts Gallery
The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com! As genres go, romantic comedies have been deemed to have lost all signs of life more times than a heartsick man or woman has rushed to the airport at the last minute in a blind, desperate panic, eager to tell their one Continue Reading
Book review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
As 2020 has demonstrated with almost devilish glee, life is a LOT. While it can be gloriously uplifting and fulfilling and loving and rich with endless possibility, it can also feel like the entire weight of the world upon you, a disappointment so raw and gargantuan that coping with it Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes
It is a rare and wonderful thing indeed to walk away from a film feeling as if the world is a little brighter for having seen it. But that is precisely what happens to you as take in the convention-busting delights of Enola Holmes, newly-arrived on Netflix and based on Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Over the Moon, Ghabe, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
A mixed bag this time, with an animated feature, a thoughtful indie drama and a documentary from an icon of the natural world on the slate. If you look closer, all of them share one very important quality – the need and longing for a better world, something that all Continue Reading
Book review: The End of the World is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell
By its very nature, writing lends itself to great, vaulting leaps of imagination. Stories vary greatly and may take you to worlds magical or thoughtful, startling or reflective, whimsical or gravely serious; but whatever their tone or intent, every last one of them is underpinned by a surfeit of expansively, Continue Reading
G’day! Travels With My Father (S4) finds its ways grumpily and amusingly Down Under
SNAPSHOTJack and Michael Whitehall return with Season 4 of Travels With My Father, and this time they’re going down under. Join the duo as they tackle wild Emus, visit the Sydney Opera House and attempt Drag. (synopsis via YouTube (c) Netflix) This will surprise absolutely no one but travel is Continue Reading
Book review: The Morbids by Ewa Ramsey
For a species laying careless waste to the planet and appallingly skilled in the messily chaotic art of death, destruction and war, humanity has a prevailing passion for neat and tidy recovery from trauma and grief. Pop culture celebrates triumphant comebacks from breakdowns and mental setbacks, inspirational speakers spruik the Continue Reading