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
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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!
Boldly go where no carpool has gone before: the cast of Star Trek Discovery find their inner disco queen
Sure, they can face off against bloodythirsty, warmongering Klingons, triumph over bad guys from another dimension and rescue people in the nick of time from planetary into a devouring sun … but can the crew of the Discovery, Star Trek’s latest ship of the line, SING? Or, at least, singalong, Continue Reading
Want to meet a Super. Dysfunctional. Family.? I give you The Umbrella Academy
SNAPSHOT The show’s 10 episodes follow the members of the Umbrella Academy, seven of the 43 babies all born on the same day in 1989 to women who showed no signs of being pregnant the day before. Billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopts these seven kids, all of whom possess extraordinary Continue Reading
Movie review: Io
Pop quiz! The world is ending, yes again – once is understandable, two is just careless and beyond that, well – and you have one last chance to get aboard a ship that will take you out to the moon of Io, orbiting Jupiter, around which sits all that is Continue Reading
Book review: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
There is this overly-romantic idea out there that the moment someone close to you is in some kind of mortal danger that you somehow ascend to a hitherto unglimpsed level of sainthood. It is as if how much you love that person is an inert mass of little to no Continue Reading
Book trailer: The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
SNAPSHOT There is something Poe Blythe, the 17-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous Continue Reading
One team: The breathtaking beauty and inspiring message of Our Planet
SNAPSHOT The groundbreaking, eight-part series will showcase the planet’s most precious species and fragile habitats, revealing amazing sights on Earth in ways they’ve never been seen using the latest in 4k camera technology. Filmed in 50 countries across all the continents of the world, with crew capturing more than three Continue Reading
Purl and the tricky art of fitting in without sacrificing who you are
SNAPSHOTPurl, follows a bright pink ball of yarn who begins work at a homogenous corporate office filled with men who waste no time ostracizing her. The short is written and directed by Kristen Lester and produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan. (synopsis (c) EW) Fitting into a new workplace is never easy Continue Reading
Little Woods: The wrong things for the right reasons
SNAPSHOT Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is a reformed drug runner now living in an economically depressed small town in North Dakota, who was caught coming back from Canada with medicine for her terminally ill mother and has been toeing the line ever since. After her mother dies, Ollie’s sister Deb (Lily Continue Reading
Respect, opportunity and joy: The timeless lessons of 50 years of Sesame Street
Sesame Street is 50 years old this year! That’s a lot of words of the day, pearls of wisdom, Grover-led hilarity and learning opportunities dispensed to the children of the world, especially those in disadvantaged situations, and Sesame Workshop, the organisation behind Sesame Street since 1969 when it all began, Continue Reading