Getting older, as with most things in life, is a double-edged sword. For all the wisdom accrued and knowledge secreted away there are aches without number and ailments without number; every longstanding friendship is matched with the disappointment and loss of a relationship lost to enmity or mortality, every 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!
Mary Poppins Returns is almost here! Watch 73 questions with star Emily Blunt
I know Vogue’s 73 Questions series is simply part of a big publicity push for a film, an actor and yes, the magazine itself, but they are so much fun and done so very well, that I just can’t help loving them. For a start, while they make excellent Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: Babes in Toyland (1961)
At first glance, Babes in Toyland, Disney’s 1961 aspirational attempt to create a movie as magically transportive and musically-rich as The Wizard of Oz – they didn’t but that was a pretty tall order anyway – doesn’t come across as a Christmas film of any stripe. (The festive angle Continue Reading
Trauma and healing in Welcome to Marwen
SNAPSHOT Welcome to Marwen tells the miraculous true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit. When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Carell) and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and Continue Reading
Cartoon bloopers? Rick and Morty has them and they’re, of course, HILARIOUS
SNAPSHOT This (NSFW language) blooper from Adult Swim animates Roiland continuously breaking during Rick’s explanation to his family about how and why he turned himself into a pickle. Every time Roiland gets to the obviously silly, obviously not sincere line about how Rick “understands Morty’s suspicion” because he has Continue Reading
Happy Christmas from Gilmore Girls: “Santa’s Secret Stuff” (S7, E11)
Spending any kind of time with Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is always, without exception, a delight. Even more so when it’s Christmas, a time so wonderfully magical, even when delayed (more on that later), that it transcends the fact that season 7 of Gilmore Girls Continue Reading
Still delightfully charming … meet the real John Lewis
SNAPSHOT Every year, the British retailer John Lewis runs a wonderfully heartwarming holiday advert that perks up interest in holiday shopping. While the company is indeed on Twitter as JLandPartners, a Blacksburg, Virginia man, who also goes by the name John Lewis, is the actual the owner of the Continue Reading
Being human and being hurt are the same thing: The Kominsky Method (season 1 review)
Let’s be honest – growing old doesn’t look like a whole heap of fun. Sure you have the wisdom of all those hopefully-happily accumulated years, a nice line in public transport discounts and the time to shop for all those bargains that evade the more time-pressed of us. But Continue Reading
You’re off and running with Scandinavian whimsicality with Moomin’ Move!
My oh my but doesn’t augmented reality stir up a hornet’s nest of reactions! On the surface, they’re fun electronic games that have “escaped” into the real world, giving people the chase to go on the hunt for characters and treasures, alone or together, and get some exercise in Continue Reading
Book review: The Witch Who Courted Death by Maria Lewis
Diving into a book by Australian author Maria Lewis is a guarantee that you will be plunged, with well-researched vigour, emotional resonance and palpable love and familiarity with the supernatural, into a world vary different from the everyday world we encounter. Each of her books to date, which incorporate Continue Reading