All of us come to a point in our lives where a decision is made, often a bad one, where life is never even remotely the same again. In his recently-released book, Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn captures with poetic truthfulness what it is like in 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: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Life can be tough so it makes sense that there comes a time when we want to hide from it, push it away and create a haven, as much as that is possible, that feels safer, kinder and less reflective of our past. But as Kitty Hawke, the protagonist of Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Nepenthe” and “Broken Pieces” (S1, E7 & E8)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A HEADY MIX OF NOSTALGIA AND THE FUTURE … JUST LEAVE YOUR SYNTH AT HOME OKAY? Your mobile phone is a threat to the galaxy. Well, that’s not strictly speaking true but if it were to suddenly to develop sentience and start talking back to you Continue Reading
Still feeling Insecure? Of course you are! (season 4 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOTAside from the seemingly inevitable conflict between Issa and Condola, Issa and Molly’s relationship could be put to the test in Season 4. Never have the two really dated men from the same circle, and they’ve both kept those parts of their lives relatively separate from their friendship with each Continue Reading
Book review: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry
If you’re an inveterate reader, you will be well acquainted with the inestimable pleasure of losing yourself for hour upon hour in a good book. But what if instead of you diving headlong into it, the book, particularly the characters cane rushing out to meet you? That’s exactly what happens Continue Reading
That Was Your Life: The Good Place final season review
SNAPSHOTThe series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a deceased young woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is welcomed by Michael (Ted Danson) to the “Good Place” in reward for her righteous life; however, she eventually discovers that Michael’s “Good Place” is a hoax, and she is actually in the “Bad Place”, Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Uncorked, Lost Transmissions, Jungle Cruise
We live in exceedingly weird times. With COVID-19 cutting a swathe of disruption across the globe, the issue for many cinemagoers right now, quite apart from whether you should go to a pplace of public gathering such as a cinema at all, is whether you will actually get to see Continue Reading
Movie review: A Friendly Tale (Le bonheur des uns…) #FFF2020
If a good friend of yours quietly told you that they had written a novel and were excited by this new found burst of creativity and that no less than France’s most famous writer, impressed by their talent, had encouraged them via Facebook to pursue their dream, you would be Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The anatomically correct fun of “Cartoon Fossils”
You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading
Book review: This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
Celebrity is a curious thing. While the near-omnipresence of a famous person suggests we know them intimately and well, know everything about them in fact, the truth is that we really only know what they and their publicity team choose to reveal. It’s a carefully-constructed facade that, if you dig Continue Reading