Boy howdy but isn’t the zombie apocalypse a regular hoot-a-freaking-minute? Actually it’s not, something well evident in The Walking Dead‘s current season, which features yet another battle between relative good and evil, and the just-concluded fifth season of Fear the Walking Dead, but you can’t blame a guy for dreaming 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!
I ain’t afraid of no Ghostbusters #Halloween light display!
Who ya gonna call?! If you’ve got ghosts, it’s no contest but if you want a brilliantly-calibrated, all-in immersive light display, give a shout out to Tom BetGeorge of Magical Light Shows who decorates his home in Tracy, California every year in absolutely spectacular fashion. He’s assembled a chorus of Continue Reading
Comics review: Self/Made – The Inciting Incident
What does it mean to be human? To be self aware? To have a sense of self? If you think it’s too heavy a topic for anything but a deep dive into French philosophy, think again; Self/Made: An Inciting Incident by Australian writer Mat Groom with art by Marcelo Costa Continue Reading
Falling in love at zero degrees: Let It Snow
SNAPSHOTFor those who haven’t read the book, Let It Snow, the novel, is essentially three holiday-themed romantic YA short stories that eventually intertwine together. The first story, written by Johnson, is about a young girl named Jubilee (Merced) whose train breaks down in a snowstorm. Luckily, she meets a cute Continue Reading
Faux Shows 2: Unreal TV offerings not coming to a platform near you
SNAPSHOTAs you wind down at the end of the day and open a go-to streaming platform, we’re all faced with the difficult task of choosing what we want to watch. Stockbuster previews feature generic genres we’ve all learnt to expect. Stereotypical characters we all love, “originals” and binge-worthy series we’ve Continue Reading
Book review: Love in Small Letters by Francesc Miralles
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if life was like the movies? Not Alien or Zodiac because no one wants that kind of trouble; no, films like Sleepless in Seattle or While You Were Sleeping where there are complications sure but life and love generally end up in the sweet spot of Continue Reading
“The sweetest damn film of the decade”: The heartwarming delights of The Peanut Butter Falcon
SNAPSHOTThe Peanut Butter Falcon is an adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler by attending the wrestling school Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The luminous moving beauty of Fox Fires
SNAPSHOTFox Fires, a moving short from Scottish animator Keilidh, takes its inspiration from the ancient Finnish myth about the Aurora Borealis, which they call Revontulet. That translates to “Fox Fires,” as they believed a magical fox would run across the sky, sweeping the Earth’s snow with his tail, creating the Continue Reading
The saga concludes … final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
SNAPSHOTReturning cast members for The Rise of Skywalker include Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo and Billie Lourd. Joining the cast are Naomi Ackie (Doctor Who), Richard E. Grant (Logan), Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings), and Keri Russell (The Americans), who will Continue Reading
Book review: Five Steps to Happy by Ella Dove
Life is full of surprises. Many are wonderful – unexpected birthday parties, fantastic new job offers, kind words from a total stranger or close friend just when you need it the most. But some are gut-wrenchingly life-changing, the kind that knock you to the ground so profoundly with rug-from-under-you fury Continue Reading