Think of Disney, which is well on the way to becoming the entire entertainment industry, and you think of sweet, uplifting characters, great morality and an uplifting, often inspiring take on life. Ah but not if you’re French artist Giles Bousquet who has imagined what Disney’s many iconic characters 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!
More Winona face please! Stranger Things gets an Honest Trailer
It would be obvious from even just a cursory glance at this blog that I love Stranger Things. It’s not just the nostalgia factor at work although I do love the myriad influences ranging from Spielberg to Alien, E.T. to Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons; it’s the fully Continue Reading
Oh how movie trailers have changed! A look at their evolution by @granger_willson
SNAPSHOT Movie marketing has always been an art form in and of itself, and movie trailers have now enticed audiences for more than a hundred years. With the passage of time, trailers have evolved from straightforward descriptions of films, to ominously voiced-over montages, to frenetic and spoiler-phobic teasers. Watch Continue Reading
Counterpart asks the intriguing question – what if life was different?
SNAPSHOT Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel Continue Reading
Book review: When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
Dylan Mint, the refreshingly honest protagonist of Brian Conaghan’s debut novel, When Mr Dog Bites, is a typical 16-year-old in many ways. He has a “best bud” named Amir, with whom he texts and discusses girls, life and the things they want to do to make it mean something, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Return of the Monster’s scary deja vu
Nightmares are scary – that much is obvious. But how much scarier are they when they loop over and over again, a ceaseless montage of freaky moments that repeat and repeat until you begin to wonder (a) What the hell was in that pizza I ate last night? and Continue Reading
Movie review: Call Me By Your Name
(image via IMP Awards) There is a heady agony and ecstasy to falling in love that most films fail to capture completely in its all conflicting glory. But Call Me By Your Name, an exquisitely beautiful film about love, longing and unfulfilled possibilities, manages to portray faithfully how love can Continue Reading
Dancing with Disney: James Casey shows us how
There are a lot of wonderful things that Disney does right in its rightly-celebrated animated features. Punchy, fun characters. Delightful catchy songs. Engrossing stories. Learnable morality tales … … and brilliantly inventive dance sequences, the kind so perfectly executed that you’d like to get up and dance right along Continue Reading
Book review: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
The machines are coming to get us. That’s been the consistent message for years now from within the world of science fiction (Terminator et al) and without – surprisingly, one Elon Musk, champion of the future, being the standard bearer for this cause – and to be fair, acclaimed Continue Reading
Jumpy lives to jump! Video game character goes all out to win
I’ll be honest – I have never really played video games. Largely because I am stupendously bad at them – I may have been gifted with the ability to write but that was not accompanied, and frankly why would it be, with deft hand-eye coordination. So video games remain Continue Reading