In a perfect, idealised world, every love story would have a happy ending, the kind that consumes your heart, sweeps you of your feet and convinces you in the very depths of your being that you are valued, loved and belong. But life, lovely though it is at times, is Continue Reading
aussiemoose
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!
What’s it like being Doctor Who-level famous? David Tennant tells
We have all heard the stories of fame being as much of an albatross around the neck as it is a bright and shiny Christmas bauble, normally couched in the context of a bio pic morality tale where someone realises their dreams of fame and fortune only to find the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The End of Everything” (S5, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BEER, ZOMBIE LANDSIDES AND SOME KISSING RATHER THAN KILLING BY THE RIVERSIDE … What do you value more – your loved ones or your vocation, the thing that drives you to get out of bed in the morning and go charging into the day? If Hallmark Continue Reading
Book review: 84K by Claire North
Dystopian novels are, by their very nature, meant to be disturbing. They are intended to prompt us to question whether we’re headed as a society, which may or may not manifest as the novel details, is something we want, awakening us to the “boiling frog” of slow, seemingly innocuous trends Continue Reading
Sea of Stars: A tale of space dolphins and strange powers with a Miyazaki meets Neverending Story vibe
SNAPSHOTBeing a space trucker sounds like a cool job, but in reality, it can be boring as hell. So when recently widowed Gil gets a long-haul gig across the universe, he figures it’s safe enough to bring his young son Kadyn along for the ride—that is, until their “big rig” Continue Reading
Retro movie review: When Harry Met Sally
They say love is forever. But is a movie about love forever? Can a romantic comedy, no matter how beautifully written and superbly well-acted, truly last as well as the object of its narrative affections? If it’s When Harry Met Sally, and it’s written by the incomparably-talented Nora Ephron and Continue Reading
More than just toys: How Toy Story beautifully explores issues of abandonment (video essay)
No one likes to be abandoned or neglected. It cuts to the very core of our self-worth and lovability and the even the prospect of it, quite understandably, leaves us quaking in our existential boots. The same goes for the toys of Pixar’s Toy Story series, says Isaac of The Continue Reading
Comics review: Check, Please! (Book #1: #Hockey) by Ngozi Ukazu
If you have even one romantic bone in your body, and I’m guessing there must be than one unless your heart is concrete and your soul solid granite, put aside any notions that you have looking at the cover of Check, Please! (Book #1: #Hockey) by the supremely-talented Ngozi Ukazu. Continue Reading
A mass of movie trailers: Ad Astra, After the Wedding, Plus One, Trolls World Tour, Under the Silver Lake
Movies! Movies! Movies! Fortunately for a cinephile like myself, they never stop but keeping up with the neverending cascade of trailers can take a lot of time and effort, and were I to put them all on the blog, more site real estate than I could afford, and frankly that Continue Reading
Book review: While You Were Reading by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
Have you ever made a titanically bad life decision, the kind for which there is no reasonable response, other than to run for the hills and tried to pretend that barn burner of a life-changing incident never happened? Beatrix Babbage has; after an accidental confession lays her best friend Cassandra’s Continue Reading