SNAPSHOT Captain Malcolm Reynolds finds himself in a dangerous situation after being kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats. (synopsis via EW) If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of Firefly devotees wailing and gnashing their teeth, and bemoaning, once again, the fact the series was 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!
Movie review: Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Grindelwald
Quite possibly one of the loveliest things that good fantasy or magically real films do is transport their audiences to a world far away from their own. While you are technically still sitting in a cinema, every other part of you, the dreaming, yearning, imaginatively-expansive parts of you are Continue Reading
Up, up and away: Dumbo gains cinematic altitude with new poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure “Dumbo” expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Continue Reading
Book review: Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
I just had the loveliest time sitting down and talking with Kimmy Schmidt. Having devoured every available episode of her, naturally, autobiographical, post-being trapped inside a bunker by a pedophilic cult leader sitcom – yep, that’s the premise and it works like a charm, an hilarious mix of quirky Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to sing … 5 favourite Sesame Street musical moments
Sesame Street does so many things right. From its brilliantly-imaginative teaching of the ABCs and 123s to its hilarious parodies of pop culture touchstones through to its life lessons, it is the gold standard in education for kids (and more than a few adults too). To that illustrious list. Continue Reading
Celebrate the weird and let your freak flag fly: Ugly Dolls trailer + posters
SNAPSHOT In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weird is celebrated, strange is special and beauty is embraced as more than simply meets the eye. Here, the free-spirited Moxy and her UglyDolls friends live every day in a whirlwind of bliss, letting their freak flags fly in a celebration Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Visitor and the majesty of landscape
SNAPSHOT Armed with a camera drone, I travelled to Utah to capture the alienesque landscape of the desert on film. …Like many people, I’ve always wanted to visit Mars. But, it’s so far away. Last month I did the next best thing: I traveled to the deserts of Southern Continue Reading
Bright eyes return: New Watership Down animated series
As a kid, I read a lot of books. A LOT OF BOOKS. Despite the vast number, quite a few of them made a real impact on me including Richard Adam’s 1972 novel Watership Down about a burrow of rabbits struggling to survive as their beloved habitat faces destruction. Continue Reading
Book review: The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
One of the curiously unexpected aspects of deep and prolonged grief is an unnerving sense of becoming unmoored from your life. One minute all the touchstones are in place, the things that give your life a sense of time, place and meaning, and the next? One crucial piece is Continue Reading
Some gifts are more than just a gift: This year’s John Lewis Christmas ad
SNAPSHOT Titled The Boy & The Piano, the 12th version of the department store’s iconic ad … tells the true story of how a Christmas gift – a piano belonging to Elton’s grandmother – went on to inspire the music icon’s life, working backwards chronologically from the present day Continue Reading