You could be forgiven for being surprised that Ross Marquand, who plays beleaguered survivor Aaron on AMC’s The Walking Dead (to be fair every single last person on the show is beleaguered), is a man of 1001 celebrity impressions. But he is, and damn good ones at that, and the 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!
Let’s talk about Sex Education baby
Love is, for all its Hallmark-tinged, Valentine’s Day-enabled, rose-tinted loveliness, a very messy business in the real world. Just how messy becomes clear in Netflix’s new eight-part show Sex Education in which the students at a British private school, Moreland, as typical a hotbed of hormones and unbridled lust as Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Artists draw their greatest fears, inspired by Bird Box
It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in his first inaugural speech in 1933, famously said, “the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself.” And while that may well be true, the fact is there are a great many other things to fear as Netflix’s recent hit film, Bird Box, Continue Reading
Movie review: Aquaman
(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
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