INTRO ALADDIN SNAPSHOT The Aladdin cast includes: Two-time Oscar® nominee Will Smith (Ali, Men in Black) as the Genie who has the power to grant three wishes to whoever possesses his magic lamp; Mena Massoud (Amazon’s Jack Ryan) as Aladdin, the hapless but lovable street rat who is smitten with 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!
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Behind-the-scenes look at the creation of virus Double Dan
How do you make a truly unlikeable antagonist somewhat likeable while still keeping an air of menace to them? Most particularly, how do you do this when you’re making a reasonably-cute Disney animated feature – really, is there any other kind? – which is meant to represent the fun as Continue Reading
Movie review: Giant Little Ones
Life, as you’ve likely noticed by now, is not a straightforward undertaking. While many people of a religious or even secular persuasion may choose to argue otherwise, clinging to their black-and-white dogma like its is truth incarnate, the reality is what we think will happen or who we think we’ll Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #2: SOAK, Dido, Beirut, Dodie, The Japanese House + Eurovision update
Life is a many-complicated thing. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s supposed to be “splendoured” but really sometimes, it doesn’t feel so much wondrous as complicated, a mix of the god and the bad, the lovely and the not-so-much and moments rich with potential but ripe with disappointment. Sure, we all Continue Reading
Do you want to watch a sequel? Frozen 2 has a trailer and a poster
SNAPSHOT We still don’t know all that much about the sequel’s plot, other than that it’ll see Anna, Elsa and co go on an adventure. Co-director Chris Buck has said that the new film will see the next evolution in the lives of the series’ stars Anna, Kristoff and Olaf, Continue Reading
Book review: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman #ValentinesDay
It needs to be said right from the start that I have fallen hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) over the course of reading their delightfully-candid and hilariously funny book The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. So you can Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An Ode to Love – one man, an island and some sticks
An Ode To Love, written and directed by Matthew Darragh and produced by Suzie Belton & Danielle Considine with music by Stefan French, and made with the generous support of Filmbase and RTE, tells the story of a man on a desert island who falls in love with a stick. Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “An Obol for Charon” (S2, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED “IS IT GOOD OR IS IT BAD?” STAR TREK-ING … Damn those multi-phasic stasis shields! Just when you’re zipping through the Alpha Quadrant at speed, warp speed, hot on the heels of Spock’s (Ethan Peck) warp signature – thanks to Number 1 (Rebecca Continue Reading
Book review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
While current events might suggest otherwise, most people are inclined to a romantic optimism when it comes to love and belonging, preferring to err on the side of eternal hope rather perpetually-smouldering pessimism. Part of this buoyant outlook on life, one that is enshrined in innumerable fairytales and thus Disney Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day with Friends: Ross, Rachel and love worth waiting for
Ah, love sweet sitcom-engineered love. Ross and Rachel were the emotional will-they-won’t they centrepiece of the Friends sitcom, which ran from 1994 to 2004. While you could argue that theirs was a wholly unhealthy dynamic, those of us with a more romantic view of the world, including hosts Debra Minoff Continue Reading