Oh, this film is a whimsical joy! Based on a classic children’s poem by Jacques Prévert entitled “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement (Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral)”, this short film, Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off), by Romain Segaud 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!
Book review: The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Alex Woods is a quirky guy. A very quirky guy. But then that’s what makes the protagonist of The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence such an endearing, affecting delight. Struck by a 2kg meteorite at the age of 10 when it comes hurtling, rather destructively, through the Continue Reading
The Weatherman: The Future’s Only Hope … Has A Zero Percent Chance
Memories are fallible things. We forget where we put the keys. What day our niece’s birthday falls. Where we hid that present that would be perfect for Aunty Jean? But being responsible for genocide? Yeah, no, that, THAT, is something you’d definitely remember. Unless you’re Martian weatherman, Nathan Bright, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Another Day in the Diamond” (S4, E2 review)
SPOILERS, MUCH LIKE ZOMBIES, ABOUND … Do zombies like to meditate? Likely not, what with all that constant rambling and shambling and stumbling aimlessly going on; but Fear the Walking Dead? Oh, it likes it a great deal. After a worrying first episode, where the main cast of Fear were Continue Reading
What do dogs see on TV? Not what you think they’re seeing!
SNAPSHOT …regardless of breed, what dogs see on the screen is definitely not what we see. Dogs’ visual systems are much more sensitive to flickering, which helps them perceive movement more efficiently. …what might look to you like a vibrant, colorful image could be pretty “meh” for your dog….Instead Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 6 – San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Ukraine
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Fast bullets and a really serious bad guy: Deadpool 2 drops its final trailer
SHAPSHOT Deadpool forming a team of mercenaries and mutants to protect a mysterious kid (Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison) from the arrival of a hardass cyborg from the future, Thanos. (synopsis (c) io9) Ladies and gentleman behold – the Merc With the Mouth aka Wade Wilson aka Deadpool Continue Reading
Telltale signs: You know it’s a Wes Anderson film if …
SNAPSHOT You know you’re watching a Wes Anderson film if there’s a rich micro world with a focus on art direction. Wes Anderson’s films have become synonymous with unique and idiosyncratic production design that makes us feel we’ve entered inside a human dollhouse. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I have Continue Reading
Book review: Scales of Empire (Dragon Empire Trilogy #1) by Kylie Chan
First Contact in science fiction storytelling is normally an eminently serious undertaking, with the meeting of alien and human usually presaging some great generation-defining moment that may be good or bad but is never less than gravely portentous. In Kylie Chan’s Scales of Empire, a sci-fi novel and the Continue Reading
Big risks and taxi fares: John Boyega interviewed on The Feed
Go hard or go home is a mantra beloved by many, a rallying cry to give something everything you’ve got or not bother at all. Pretty inspiring stuff right? Well yes, but as John Boyega, star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Pacific Rim: Uprising explains with down Continue Reading