Once the things that pretty much everyone loves about Doctor Who is how human he/she is, a pretty impressive achievement for a Galifreyan with two hearts who may be a sworn protector of humanity and their home planet Earth but who most certainly doesn’t come from there. But what if, 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!
Video essay: Technique not design defined early Disney animation
SNAPSHOT The real Disney style isn’t in design but in technique. Techniques that are universal and style agnostic, which is why when budgets were tight, Disney was notorious for repurposing animation from its archive to save time and they were able to recycle that work between two completely different characters Continue Reading
Book review: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
The apocalypse is once again upon us. Not so good if you like running water, mobile phone service or law and order and human civility; but great if you, like me, are looking for a fresh take on the end of the world. With Peng Shepherd’s richly-intimate, vibrantly-magical The Book Continue Reading
Cinema bricks: The films of 2018 get LEGO’d
All hail end of year lists! Everyone loves to do them, including yours truly, and at their best, they provide great insight into what a particular thought was the best, and yes, worst, of the year. You might not always agree with them but it makes you reflect on how Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A family repaired in If You Fall
SNAPSHOT In the wonderfully heartwarming animation “If You Fall” by Tisha Deb Pallai, a little girl named Lila is learning how to ride a bicycle, but is not yet ready to ride alone. As this is happening, Lila’s parents, he a struggling artist and she a television news reporter, are finding Continue Reading
ZZZZ Lucas the Spider is tired — but where can he nap?
It’s summer holidays time in Australia which means lots of food, lots of reading (for me, anyway) and lots of naps. After all, when else can you catch up on that lost sleep from throughout the year? Lucas the Spider, created by Joshua Slice, knows just what I’m talking about Continue Reading
Book review: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
For all the existential car crashes it has left in its wake, humanity remains a curiously-upbeat species. It must be an evolutionary quirk that enables us to stare disaster and loss, much of it of our own creation, in the face and still believe, all evidence to the contrary, that Continue Reading
One summer can change everything: Stranger Things season 3
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
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