It’s been a while coming but now we have a poster for Stranger Things season 3, an ominous tagline, a teaser date annoucement video (complete with a hidden message in all its cryptic glory) and a release date! What we don’t know is why Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looks so 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!
Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book’s tone (curated article)
by Ryna Ordynat, Monash University It’s 150 years since Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published and in the time since, the book has never been out of print. The story of the March sisters struck a chord with readers – especially young girls – early on, and Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Wreck-It Ralph
It’s easy, through the divorced-from-childhood eyes of adulthood, to assume that cartoons- all bright colours, manic movements and quippy oneliners – are lacking in any kind of real substance. After all, we’ve been trained to see cartoons as childish bits of frippery and live action as suitably adult, a demarcation Continue Reading
The tonality of it: Actor Domhnall Gleeson and the art of learning accents
SNAPSHOT It’s funny, Southern American is definitely easier than a more general American or something from either coast. The southern thing I don’t know. I think because of the way that the sentences work and the open down of the tonality of it you can hear it you can, grab Continue Reading
Happy pop culture new year everyone!
Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs: Puppet Master reveals the challenges of creating believability
SNAPSHOT It was a huge challenge – a huge challenge and I think probably the most ambitious stop-motion film certainly I’ve ever worked on. There’s always a lot of detail. Stop-motion sort of thrives on that you know. You’re creating miniatures, so when you create miniatures they have to Continue Reading
I need more popcorn and candy stat! My 20 favourite films of 2018
So much was the same and yet so much was different this year when it came to sampling the seemingly endless cinematic delights on offer. While I still made it to a significant number of films in actual cinemas, consuming in the process far more lollies (candy) that is Continue Reading
Movie review: Ralph Breaks the Internet – Wreck-It Ralph 2
The tempting thing with anyone considering a sequel to any successful film, animated or otherwise, is to stay with what worked the first time, build on it just enough to make it seem fresh and new(ish) but not deviate from it so much that it feels too new and too Continue Reading
Download. Play. Dance. Sing. My 17 favourite songs of 2018
I cannot imagine a life without music. It is the transportive soundtrack to my commutes, my 5 am morning exercise sessions, those moments when I am out amongst the crush of Sydney crowds and want to carve out a world of my own and a thousand other times big and Continue Reading
Take One Small Step … and watch your dreams come true (animated short)
(image via Laughing Squid (c) Taiko Studios) SNAPSHOT In the very touching short animation “One Small Step” by Taiko Studios, a little girl named Luna dreams of becoming an astronaut when she grows up. By Luna’s side is her Continue Reading