There is a time, a heady and seemingly limitless time, when you are on the cusp of adulthood where everything seems possible. Everything’s on the table, you have all the time in the world (so you think) to pick them up and put them where you will at your leisure 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 pop art: What if the The Mandalorian had been released in the 1970s?
The Mandalorian is one of a slate recent breakout streaming hits which has benefited no doubt from the fact that it is part of the Star Wars universe but also because it is some damn fine storytelling, beautifully presented. Parts of its appeal is a Western-style narrative that feature a Continue Reading
Book review: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
If you exercise it properly, the imagination is a vast and wondrous place. It can also be thrillingly dangerous and intensely emotionally resonant in the most visceral and cuttingly real of ways as Marlon James makes vibrantly and chillingly clear in Black Leopard, Red Wolf, a book which brings together Continue Reading
Altered Carbon has been re-sleeved! Welcome to the season 2 teaser trailer
SNAPSHOTSeason 2 of the sophisticated and compelling sci-fi drama finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries-old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself Continue Reading
Rise up together: Thoughts on Grace and Frank S6
The challenge for any series that manages to make it past the first few seasons, when cancellation lurks like some sort of televisual predator (yes, even for streaming shows) is balancing the twin competing demands of delivering up characters and situations that audiences have come to love while still forging Continue Reading
What was life like for Bo Peep before Toy Story 4? Lamp Life fills us in
When we come across someone we haven’t seen in a while, we intellectually know they’ve likely done a LOT of living since we saw them; it stands to reason unless they spent the intervening period between meet-ups sitting in a dark room humming manically to themselves. (It’s not as much Continue Reading
Movie review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
If there are two things that define us, in the best way possible, as humans it is the need to belong and to feel as if and what we do matter. The two are often though not always inextricably linked with the simple but profound fact of finding our “why” Continue Reading
Everyone’s saying “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die” … no, really
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” As iconic movie lines go, these immortal words of vengeance and loss from The Princess Bride are right up there among the best. How iconic exactly? So famous and suffused through the pop culture consciousness of humanity that Continue Reading
Book review: Star-crossed by Minnie Darke
Are our lives governed by fate or free choice? It’s a weighty question, one that pops up in religious and philosophical reasoning far more than it doesn’t and for good reason – a great many of us want to know whether we are responsible for our actions or can happily Continue Reading
Success or exile: Warrior Yenni faces unyielding options in Given by Nandi Taylor
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