SNAPSHOT The series, which revolves around the ace fighter pilots of Leia Organa’s burgeoning Resistance, follows a young pilot named Kazuda Xiono (voiced by Days of Our Lives’ Christopher Sean), recruited by the rebel group to conduct secretive spying missions on the growing reach of the villainous First Order. 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: Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993)
Childhood is supposed to be a safe, idyllic, untroubled place. Yet for a million different reasons that are as diverse as the various failings of the human race, it fails to be the fairytale dream it’s supposed to be, overwhelming young growing minds with the kinds of challenges and Continue Reading
Avengers Infinity War: How should it have ended?
Avengers: Infinity War is grim, people, GRIM with the kind of ending that has you leaving the theatre with a desperate, impelling need to eat your body weight in junky comfort food (which as luck would have it, cinemas have in abundance; true, it will bankrupt you ten times Continue Reading
Movie review: The Wife
There is a brittleness that permeates the entire length of the Björn Runge directed, Jane Anderson-scripted film The Wife (based on the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer) which has nothing to do with the snowy wintry setting of Stockholm where much of the story takes place. The Continue Reading
Jurassic Park: Using theme to craft character (video essay)
Michael from Lessons from the Screenplay – you can sponsor him on Patreon and you should, you really should – creates breathtakingly detailed but beautifully-accessible video essays. In one of his latest instalments, he explores how a big, bombastic blockbuster, Jurassic Park, used it riveting storyline and finely-etched characters Continue Reading
Now this is music #110: NONONO, Kirsten Ludwig, Alison Wonderland, Robyn, Miss Eaves + RIP Aretha Franklin
We all love music that lifts up, lightens the soul, stirs up the joyous and the good, stills the anxious and the bad. That kind of music is all the better when it’s accompanied by lyrics that speak to the human condition in authentic, accessible, profoundly touching ways. Too Continue Reading
Welcome to Dreamland: Meet the characters of Disenchantment
SNAPSHOT In Disenchantment, viewers will be whisked away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci. Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “People Like Us” (S4, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIES WHO ARE BLOWING IN THE WIND … THEY’RE BLOWING IN THE WIND MY FRIEND Things got more than a little Z Nation in the opening episode, “People Like Us”, of the second half of the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead. The undead, Continue Reading
What They Had: Sometimes going home brings us closer to where we belong
SNAPSHOT The film centers on a family in crisis. Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with her mother’s (Blythe Danner) Alzheimer’s and her father’s (Robert Forster) reluctance to let go of their life together. (synopsis via Coming Soon) Life, for Continue Reading
Book review: The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris
Jasper Wishart is a remarkable 13-year-old boy. A child on the autism spectrum, he also has synaesthesia, a condition which joins one or more senses together, meaning that where we might just hear someone speaking, someone like Jasper both hears them and sees what they are seeing in various Continue Reading