Netta Barzali was a gloriously animated winner of Eurovision this year, bring spark, fun and quirky vivacity to a contest already rich in all three. So it makes perfect sense that YouTube user, known simply as reviewer, would marry up the songs from this year’s crop of artists with 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!
Christmas in July #4: Home alone feeling scrooged? These Christmas movies deserve some love, actually (curated)
Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia The cultural environment in which we watch a film inevitably shapes our response to it. Engaging with the Yuletide ecology by watching Christmas films offers a genuine cinephilic pleasure, be it kitsch, ironic, or sincere. The following taxonomy is by no Continue Reading
A gay and a straight man walk into a press event: Alex Strangelove stars test their LGBTQ+ knowledge
It goes without saying, but hey-ho I’m going to say it anyway, is that there are differences between the gay and straight worlds. Not unbridgeable ones of course, and one of the loveliest most heartwarming things of the modern era (hateful trolls aside) has been to watch the straight Continue Reading
Welcome everybody … to the trailer for The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
SNAPSHOT If you think the countryside is calm and peaceful, then you might want to think again. France’s most unconventional farm plays home to a number of mixed-up animal folk. We are introduced to a fox that thinks he is a chicken, a rabbit that acts like a stork Continue Reading
Movie review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Like most brilliantly-executed pop songs, the songs of ABBA have always possessed a beguilingly lyrical storytelling quality. There is the angst of remembered lost love in “Our Last Summer”, the exuberant romantic victory of “Waterloo” and the warning about players in love in “Angeleyes”, and a thousand other tales Continue Reading
Not everyone was me: Artist captures the poignancy of re-discovering your childhood bullies as an adult
I was bullied ceaselessly and mercilessly as a child. Every day at school was hell and I spent my time trying to maintain as small as profile as possible, a necessary strategy which robbed me of all kinds of academic and sporting activities I would’ve been damn good at. Continue Reading
Now this is music #108 – Sofi Tukker, Mr Kitty, Max Styler & Twerl, Bishop Briggs, Anna Lunoe
There’s something innately compelling about people with a strong sense of self. I’m not talking about arrogant souls who think they’re god’s gift to the universe, but rather people who are comfortable in themselves and at ease with expressing it. The five duos and artists in this post’s selection Continue Reading
Scoops ahoy! Stranger Things 3 releases a mall-avelous teaser trailer
Ah the ’80s! Gaudy, colourful, pastel-hued fun – hypwercolour T-shirts, shoulder pads, Duran Duran … and the rise and rise of the mall. How big a deal were malls in the 1980s? They were BIG and just how big can be seen in the new teaser trailer for Stranger Continue Reading
Book review: Whisper by Lynette Noni
You have to admire any author who plunges into the well-travelled waters of genre literature, particularly when it concerns mutants, often held aloft as humanity’s possible evolutionary future and the subject of many a graphic novel or film series. But Australian author Lynette Noni, who is best known for Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Spell of the West – birds, a cowgirl and the mysterious Ax-Man
Who is the mysterious Ax-Man and what is doing that’s traumatising the non-opposable thumb possessing and capacity for abstract thought-lacking birds that inhabit the cowgirl’s isolated cacti farm? Hint it’s not good and what starts out as three hysterical birds frantically trying to call attention to a serious, ever-growing Continue Reading