One of the most arresting scenes in the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, based on the magically-imaginative books of prolific author L. Frank Baum, is when Toto, Dorothy’s plucky terrier, pulls back the curtain shielding the titular wizard from view and exposing his intimidating spectacle as nothing more 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!
Movie review: Rocketman
If your expectations of a biopic of John Elton include a healthy dose of bright, colourful theatrics and orchestral indulgence set to to epic, then Rocketman, written by Lee Hall and directed by David Fletcher, will not even come close to disappointing. Inventive and imaginative to degrees that delight and Continue Reading
Grab a phone! What would a 2019 iteration of Friends look like?
We know things have changed since Friends finished its 10-season run back on 6 May, 2004 but, wondered Nerdist, just how different would be the show be if I debuted today? What would change? What would be the same? Would the changes be so dramatic that the show would be Continue Reading
Book review: Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
The interior is a place that most of us know only too well. Whether it’s mental health issues, loss and grief, regrets, hope and dreams, or simply dismay at the way a colleague or family member has treated us, our natural inclination seems to be to tuck them far away Continue Reading
Comics review: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
One of the great delights of a being an omnivorous reader is the delight you experience when a piece of work that initially presents as one thing turns out to be quite another. Or both, all at once. Nimona is one of those delightful surprises, the work of Noelle Stevenson, Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The Secret Life of Pets 2
SNAPSHOTThe Secret Life of Pets 2 will follow summer 2016’s blockbuster about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy will produce the sequel to the comedy that had the best opening Continue Reading
Movie review: Someone Great
Is it possible to be both light and frothy and say something about the human condition? Especially if you’re a romantic comedy, a genre known for its romantic froth-and-bubble but not great existential musings on life, the universe and everything? Someone Great, part of the ever-increasing cascade of films from Continue Reading
Broke but not broken: New animated series Bless the Harts
“Bless the Harts follows a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke, and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich, in friends, family and laughter.” (synopsis via Coming Soon) There’s something about animation that gets me Continue Reading
Hell is other people: Thoughts on … After Life
The thing about grief, which hangs over After Life like an omnipresent dark cloud, is that it doesn’t play out the way you think it will when it’s simply an abstract concept. In other words, when you’ve yet to lose someone. But when that kind of life-altering, world-shattering loss strikes, Continue Reading
Dream over or just begun? Eurovision 2019 – who won, who lost and who’s sweeping up the glitter?
One of the fun things to do as you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, and trust me “fun” is a relative concept in this instance, is to try and divine which songs Europe will, and just as importantly, won’t like, and thus which will progress from the two semi finals Continue Reading