(image via IMP Awards) Being a superhero is a pretty serious undertaking. You are, after all, usually the one responsible for not only stopping the bad guy/gal/weird mutant person with delusions of grandeur from ending the world in some of over-complicated and avowedly-cataclysmic fashion, but also coping with a host 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!
Toy Story 4: Little Bo Peep has found her … poster and teaser trailer
SNAPSHOTBo Peep is back! This long-lost friend of Woody, Buzz and the gang always shared a special connection with Woody, but they have not seen each other in years, and Bo has become chipped and faded over time. Bo’s strength and sarcasm always belied her delicate porcelain exterior, and it Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “New Eden” (S2, E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WEIRD SIGNALS AND ALTRUISTIC ALIENS (AND AMISH BUTTER?) No matter how imaginatively-captivating it may be, a premise is only ever as good as its execution. Nowhere is this more evident, this week at least, than with episode two of Star Trek Discovery‘s sophomore season which was a Continue Reading
Mash-up mania: Men in Black meets up with The Blues Brothers
Has it ever occurred to you to mash up Men in Black and The Blues Brothers? No? Me neither. But it did, pop culture gods be praised, occur to French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu who has quite the inventive track record of coming up with mash-up videos that make merry with Continue Reading
Book review: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
There are many predictable, known things in this life but grief, alas, is not one of them. The form it takes is as individual as the person grappling with it, a contrary beast that demands different things of different people, and which is never, ever left behind, though its impact Continue Reading
One long adventure: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
SNAPSHOT Sam Elliott stars as Calvin Barr, an American legend who’s haunted by a secret from his past. Once upon a time, he was the man who managed to get close enough to Hitler during World War II to shoot him dead. Now, decades later, he’s a man of mythic Continue Reading
You love them, you really love them? A montage of this year’s Oscar-nominated films
SNAPSHOT As they’ve done in past years, movie theater chain Cineplex has put together a wonderful montage of celebrated scenes from films, actors and director nominated for an Academy Award in 2019. This year includes The Favourite, BlackKklansman, Roma, Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star Is Born and Vice. (synopsis Continue Reading
Wonder Twins powers … activate! (comic preview)
SNAPSHOT Exiled from their home planet, alien heroes Zan and Jayna must navigate life as teens on Earth at South Metropolis High School, where they’re even bigger outsiders than the typical awkward young adults. Under the watchful eye of Superman, the brother and sister pull monitor duty at the Hall Continue Reading
Can you sing 22 musicals in just 12 minutes? Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and James Corden can!
James Corden, host of, as luck would have naming-wise, The Late Late Show with James Corden, love musicals. And Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are currently starring in a musical at the moment by the name of Mary Poppins Returns (which is a supreme delight, and yes you must see Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Bottersnikes and Gumbles by S. A. Wakefield
(cover image courtesy Penguin Australia) SNAPSHOT Set in the landscape of the Australian bush the stories recount a series of conflicts between the lazy, destructive Bottersnikes and good-natured, hardworking Gumbles. Inspiration for the series came from the emerging environmental movement. The two species were intended to represent opposing attitudes towards Continue Reading