Rather ironically for an age in which difference has rapidly become villified by far too many people looking for a quick, greasy populist win, pop culture is more obsessed with the Other of all stripes than ever before. The creative arts have often celebrated and held up those who differ 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!
A mass of movie trailers: Romantic Comedy, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Room, Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss, The High Note
INTRO ROMANTIC COMEDY NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS THE ROOM SEVEN STAGES TO ETERNAL BLISS SNAPSHOTSeven Stages stars Sam Huntington and Kate Micucci as a couple who think they’ve hit the jackpot when they find a cheap apartment in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, there’s a problem: the apartment was previously inhabited by Continue Reading
Movie review: Honey Boy
Whoever coined the empty, almost universally quoted retort to bullies “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” was clearly lacked in some form of meaningful self-awareness. The truth is that while our bodies can usually repair themselves physically in fairly short order, the damage Continue Reading
Uh-oh robots! Is it really time to get Connected?
SNAPSHOTWhen Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet ‘her people’ at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond Continue Reading
Book review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
If you read enough dystopian or apocalyptic literature, and this reviewer most certainly does, you will quickly come to appreciate how many possible ways there are in which humanity could, as a species, shuffle off this mortal coil. Numerous they may be but none are likely as poetic in their Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #23: Celeste, Jack Garratt, LOVER, Bearcubs, Joe Hertz + Eurovision 2020 update
It’s Friday! (Yes, I know you know this, but for the sake of a snappy intro, let’s just pretend you’re oblivious to the fact.) After a frantic, crazily-busy week in which you likely haven’t stopped or really haven’t had a moment to yourself, it’s not a bad idea to sit Continue Reading
It’s a whole new World Beyond out there … but this is The Walking Dead so don’t expect a singing princess
SNAPSHOTThe third series in a franchise that includes global hit series The Walking Dead and original spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
Book reading is, by and large, a blessedly passive activity. Not so for the members of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club of Montreal, the heartbeat and narrative core of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon, who see the appreciation of all literature as Continue Reading
Orogonia: A timelapse journey through the majesty and beauty of Europe’s mountain ranges
SNAPSHOTOrogonia is an award-winning timelapse film by Spanish filmmaker Enrique Pacheco that takes a wondrous journey through the mountains of the European highlands while contemplating their long history. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Encompassing the stunning scenery of seven countries, Orogonia by Spanish filmmaker Enrique Pacheco not only look stunningly beautiful Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Stardust City Rag” and “The Impossible Box” (S1, E5 & E6)
One of the things that really strikes you as you watch the grittily-grounded storytelling of Star Trek: Picard is how it is, like Star Trek: Discovery before it, willing to admit that the future may not be as squeaky clean shiny as we’d like to believe. It makes sense – Continue Reading