I have often wished that I could have a big bold The Truman Show-esque soundtrack playing through my life, a musical accompaniment that helps to make my life feel more spectacular, emotionally uplifted and just feel plain cool. But alas that isn’t possible, at least not in the notes flying 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!
Small screen, big stories, much bingeing: My 20 favourite TV shows of 2019
Peak TV done got me again. Just when I thought I had all my televisual options under control and more than achievable, along come yet another streaming platform or two – hello Amazon Prime and Disney + ! – and suddenly all my best laid plans of sitting in front Continue Reading
Lost in a sea of beautiful words: My 20 favourite books of 2019
Books have always been my happy place. From when I was a kid at school, battling bullies and the loneliness of having no friends – who wants to be friends with the object of the bullying? NO ONE – through to this year when I nursed my mother through the Continue Reading
Movie review: Fisherman’s Friends
The world is ridiculously cruel and unfair at times. We all know it, and while we do our best to navigate our way through and past life, there are times when you wish everything would end as happily as it does in fairytales. Cue Fisherman’s Friends, a film that stares Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a goodnight!
Merry Christmas from the 25th Century … and also from me! Thanks for a wonderful year of pop culture goodness and here’s to an even better year of books, movies, TV, graphic novels and songs in 2020! But wait … this is the most wonderful time of the year so Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: Let It Snow
There is something particularly charged about certain times of the year when, despite all rational sensibilities to the contrary, people are seized by a need to act on things long dormant. Christmas is just such a time (along, of course, with its week-away calendar companion, New Year’s), and in Let Continue Reading
Rudolph stages the 80s montage-iest of comebacks in RED #Christmas
SNAPSHOTRed had the word at his hoofs, the most famous and talented reindeer on the sleigh. But fame, money, Does and his playboy lifestyle got the better of him. His fall from grace was epic, the party lifestyle getting out of hand, and eventually, he hung up his harness and Continue Reading
The best Christmas tree he can be: The festive adventures of Albert
Christmas television is usually pretty inspirational stuff. It makes sense – if you’re going to set a story at the most, magical time of the year, it’s almost impossible for it not to be uplifting in some fashion. Comes with the territory right? So it stands to reason that Nickelodeon’s Continue Reading
Settle in and get cosy – it’s time for A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
As cultural shadows go, they don’t come much bigger than that cast by Charles Dickens and his classic festive novel A Christmas Carol, which has been interpreted, in one form or another, by just about TV show and movie that has existed. And why not? The themes of loss, selfishness, Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I watched “The Hard Luck Kid I” (That Girl) and “The Hard Luck Kid II” (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
We are by nature a communal nature a communal species and never more so than at Christmas when the idea of being alone is anathema and we (for the most part anyway) seek out friends and family for some festive communal togetherness. That’s not always the case with some people, Continue Reading