SNAPSHOT“The zombie, they say, is the soulless human corpse still dead but taken from the grave and endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life. The zombies of Haitian folklore are controlled by a sorcerer called a bokor who uses them for his own ends often for menial work 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!
Weekend movie poster art: Harley Quinn emancipates herself with cheeky chutzpah in Birds of Prey
SNAPSHOTMargot Robbie will be reprising her Suicide Squad role of Harley Quinn in the film, which also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor as the villain Black Mask, Chris Messina as Victor Zsasz and Rosie Perez as Continue Reading
Book review: Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee
For most people, the death of a loved one is a mostly private affair; granted there is a funeral and often a wake, all very public by their very nature, but for the most part, it’s an intensely-traumatic personal thing. Not so for Dawn Murray, wife of Tom who, in Continue Reading
What’s hiding in the most solitary place on Earth? Deep Sea has the answer … and it’s not Ariel
SNAPSHOTThe water pressure here is 1,086 bar. Taking a swim here is like having to balance 1,800 elephants on top of you. But even here, life has found a way to thrive. Next to sea cucumbers, white and light pink amphipods wiggle their way through the water. Their size is Continue Reading
Comics review: Heartstopper (Volumes 1 & 2) by Alice Oseman
One of the best parts of growing up, or the worst if you are someone more at ease with well-etched certainty, is discovering how different life actually is to what you thought it would be. For many of us this realisation comes to bear in our teenage years, a time Continue Reading
The Matrix: Exposition in action (video essay)
SNAPSHOTThe Matrix utilizes [sic] so many great filmmaking techniques that it’s hard to focus on any specific one, but I’m continually impressed by how they establish an entire world filled with complex rules in a way that feels effortless. In this video, we look at how The Matrix manages to Continue Reading
Book review: Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
Falling in love with a book’s protagonist is pretty much for the course when you read a good book. That’s largely because well-written books, almost by definition, come with winningly-articulated characters who propel the page-turning narrative, rather than the other way around, and spending all that time with them, you Continue Reading
We’re not in Hawkins anymore: Creepy af Stranger Things 4 teaser video
The Upside Down is creepy as hell. Seriously, nervy, nasty, awful creepy and not the kind of place in which you’d want to any kind of sustained time. (Right Will? Will? Oh he’s gone and who can blame him?) And yet, get your demagorgon spray ready, it looks like that’s Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “End of the Line” (S5, E16 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HORSES AND COWBOYS AND WATERSLIDING ZOMBIES … Life, huh? One minute you’re riding high-ish … the next? Well, let’s just say whatever the opposite of high is, go there and then keep digging. In the case of the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Martha the Monster learns to embrace her otherness
SNAPSHOTIn a world where humans live alongside monsters, Martha finds herself stuck with a major identity crisis. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) There is something intoxicatingly powerful about the freedom to be completely and utterly yourself. I don’t mean in some kind of antisocial, douchebag kind of way; rather, being unapologetically Continue Reading