When there are teddy bears involved, going out in the woods today, or any day for that matter, sounds like an altogether delightful undertaking. Not so though if you’re Hayden Bellatrix Holland, possessor of a kickass creative middle name, a distinct lack of warm-and-fuzzy teddies, a fabulously cool housemate 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!
Trust us, and Busy Philipps – This Will Only Hurt a Little
I am not quite sure how I managed, given her luminously fun and comedically-intelligent personality, to miss Busy Philipps bright and shining presence in our world before I encountered her on Cougar Town, but miss her I did. Not really being into Freaks and Greeks during its brief run Continue Reading
Now this is music #115: Aurora, Jodie Abacus, Pool, Rebecca & Fiona, Amanda Tenfjord
Life, love and all those less than ideal messy bits in-between. We all live them, struggle or dance through them and come to our own accommodation with them but sometimes it can feel like we’re the only ones caught in the midst of all the emotional back-and-forth. Not so, Continue Reading
Don’t look now: Bird Box charts a chillingly-blind path through the apocalypse
SNAPSHOT When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The NeverEnding Story
The imagination is a powerful thing. It can take us take us to places we would never otherwise see, either beyond they simply don’t exist or are beyond our reach, conjure us beings and worlds without measure and limit, and send us journeys that never have to end. Every Continue Reading
Read me a vivid picture: Books as arrestingly beautiful art
There is a poetry and beauty to books and bookreading – every single novel you dive into is a journey into new worlds, a meeting with new people and a rush into hitherto-unheard stories, all shaped by the artistry of the author’s words. “Bookstagrammer” Elizabeth Sagan, has given this Continue Reading
Book review: Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Which came first? The book or the film? It might look like the easiest of questions to answer since the book almost always precedes the movie (except in major franchise tie-ins but that is a different kettle of promotional and artistic fish entirely); but as with the much-discussed chicken Continue Reading
The Doctor Puppet: Solar flares, cracks in the universe and a helpful extravagance of Doctor Whos
SNAPSHOT In “The Twelfth Planet“, the final episode of Alisa Stern‘s wonderful stop-motion Doctor Who puppet series “Doctor Puppet“, the twelfth iteration of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi), alone on a littered planet, finds himself at the mercy of a perfectly aligned solar flare that causes a crack in the universe. As the crack grows Continue Reading
Eurovision update: Bulgaria in, Australia decides … and more
It’s just 7 months to the middle of Eurovision – yes my number of days to … work could do with a little finessing – and while that may seem like a lifetime away, if history is any guide, we’ll be having glitter and glamour and fabulous tunes rained Continue Reading
Could In the Flesh rise again? The series creator says possibly
As zombies series, the BBC’s In the Flesh was a cut above the usual stalk-em-and-terrify-em run of the mill. Thoughtfully examining what might happen if a cure could be found for the zombie virus reverting any affected people back to normal and able, in theory at least, back into Continue Reading