For a man who loves his TV, this year proved to be quite the challenge.As I tried to balance watching lots of movies, reading more books and listening to as many songs as normal, which is a considerable amount, I found keeping up with all my usual TV shows, let 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!
Lessons from the Screenplay: The Devil Wears Prada – The First 10 Pages
SNAPSHOT Andy (Anne Hathaway) is a recent college graduate with big dreams. Upon landing a job at prestigious Runway magazine, she finds herself the assistant to diabolical editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Andy questions her ability to survive her grim tour as Miranda’s whipping girl without getting scorched. (official Continue Reading
Lost in a sea of beautiful words: My 20 favourite books of 2018
I have been a bookworm my entire life. In fact, I can’t recall a single moment in my increasingly-long life where I haven’t found inestimable pleasure in losing myself in the worlds contained within the thousands of books that have kept me company through the good and bad parts Continue Reading
Movie review: Mary Poppins Returns
Attempting a sequel to any well-loved film is a challenge but after 54 years, when time has rendered it near-iconic and placed it atop a nostalgic pedestal of near-unreachable proportions, it is an almost impossible undertaking you might think. Possibly, but clearly this didn’t faze screenwriter David Magee and director Continue Reading
Happy Boxing Day! Celebrate with the Teen Titans Go!’s “Second Christmas”
Let’s hear it for Second Christmas! What, you say? You have barely recovered, lo these few hours hence, from the first one? (I have no idea why I have gone vaguely medieval English but just run with it, and any galloping reindeer you may see). Well, suck it up and Continue Reading
What’s the best way to react to a bad Christmas gift? Let Benedict Cumberbatch show you how
Ah the joy of getting just the right present at Christmas! But what if, pray tell, you are given a less than stellar gift, and being the lovely, sweet, caring person that you are, don’t want offend the giver of said gift? This is where British actor, and all-around acting Continue Reading
Happy pop culture Christmas everyone!
It’s a Golden Books Christmas with Donald Duck, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Winnie the Pooh and Babes in Toyland
So here’s something you may not know – Alaska only became a state of the USA in 1959. Making much of that fact, this lovely tale of Yogi and Boo Boo heading off to spend Christmas with Uncle Northman and Kate Kodiak, and their young cubs Yukon and Klondike, is Continue Reading
Let’s get festively real! Elf gets an Honest Trailer
What’s your preference when it comes to Christmas movies – sweet, funny or weird? Or do you like all three? If you answered as affirmative “Yes, yes, yes” to the question – it sounded like a cute take on “Ho ho ho” in my blog post-writing but now sounds Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I watched The Christmas Chronicles
Good lord but the spirit of Christmas is a fragile and easily-derailed thing. Judging by the sheer exuberantly-colourful preponderance of Christmasness everywhere, you would be reasonably safe to assume that the festive season is a robust and unalterable thing. Not so, counsel endless numbers of Christmas films, with one of Continue Reading