Cinema, for all the nuance it brings to some of its storytelling, loves extremes. Especially when it comes to love where we are either treated to the glories and wonders of love true love in all its candy-coloured euphoria or the very darkest, bleakest end of times where the once 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!
Book review: The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
Grief does strange things to a person’s life. Often without warnin, all the old certainties are upended and you are plunnged into a chaos borne of sadness, loss, pain and a sense that everything good you have ever known is gone. In reality, it’s not extreme of course but such Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “The End is the Beginning” and “Absolute Candor” (S1, E3 & E4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A FAKE VINEYARD AND NOT SO FAKE XENOPHOBIA AND LINGERING REGRET … In the normal course of things, humanity in general, and Star Trek in particular like their heroes to be bright, shiny and above reproach. It fits nicely with the idea that, all evidence to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The truth of who we are in My Body
SNAPSHOTA teenage girl is staring at herself in a mirror. She doesn’t like what she sees; fat, skinny, ugly, she looks like a monster. Maybe she should just take a step back and realize she’s not that monstrous. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Seeing ourselves as we really are is never Continue Reading
Book review: Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
Missy Carmichael needs saving. Though at the time we meet her, at the start of Beth Morrey’s delightfully warm and insightful debut novel, Saving Missy, she would no doubt disagree with any assessment that she needs any kind of help at all. A 78-year-old English woman whose 79th birthday is Continue Reading
Billie Eilish unleashes atmospheric theme song for new Bond film No Time to Die
Bond songs are, for the most part, exercises in euphoric or profoundly-troubled bombast. They are not subtle but then are they are not lacking in elegance either, something brought beautifully to life by Billie Eilish, fresh from winning a swag of Grammy Awards, who invests a whole lot of angst Continue Reading
Trio of TV trailers: Run, Stranger Things 4 and Altered Carbon 2
Two favourites and one new show to add to the TV viewing pile! What could be better? (Apart from, you know, a year off work, a pile of books, your unwatched Netflix list and a stack of calorie-free cheesecakes.) In these cool trailers we get to catch up with an Continue Reading
Book review: Oasis by Katya de Beccera
Do you think you’re a good person? That might seem like a strangely invasive question to begin a book review with but the truth it is wholly germaine to the salient ideas that fill Katya de Becerra’s illuminatingly creepy (in all the best ways) new novel, Oasis. For while on Continue Reading
The wonder of books and dreaming: New documentary The Booksellers
SNAPSHOTAntiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers doc takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of Continue Reading
Book review: Jane in Love by Rachel Givney #ValentinesDay
You might imagine that when it comes to a writer of Jane Austen’s towering and enduring fame that there must be almost nothing we don’t know about her. But in fact, thanks to the destruction of letters between Austen and her sister Cassandra, for reasons unknown, and no doubt history’s Continue Reading