Life is never as easy as it seems, an unsettling truism that is grappled with in different but sometimes overlapping ways by the three central characters in Lynn Shelton’s film Outside In. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017, this hauntingly low-key and engagingly-nuanced film looks 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!
Off he goes! All the times Rick went rogue #RickandMorty
SNAPSHOT Part of what makes Rick who he is, is by doing whatever he wants when he wants. Here are all the times Rick went rogue in Rick and Morty! (synopsis (c) GameSpot Universe) Let’s face it – apart from the clever writing, outrageously imaginative stories, gobsmackingly creative world-building and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Laura” (S4, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOVE IN A TIME OF APOCALYPSE … Forget your rom-coms with their “meet cutes”, their getting-to-know-you montages and their misunderstandings resolved at the airport. Or your romantic poets like Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. Your songs of fidelity, enrapturement and eternal devotion. Or your Harlequin romances Continue Reading
All Aboard! Eurovision 2018 – who won, who lost and who’s sweeping up the glitter?
Hard to believe after all the build-up, the song reviews, the minute breakdown of national selection results, and the general buzz of excitement but the Eurovision Song Contest is over for another year. But is it really ever over? We’ll be listening to the songs from this year’s contest Continue Reading
First impressions: The Rain (episodes 1-4)
There is a point as an avid watcher of apocalyptic dramas, and lordy there are so many in our increasingly despairingly cynical world which seems to be practically begging for the end to come, where you begin to wander if there is anything fresh to say about the great Continue Reading
Notes on a scene: Actor/director John Krasinski breaks down the lantern scene from A Quiet Place
There’s no escaping the fact that A Quiet Place is one hell of a tense, absolutely brilliant movie-going experience. Premised on the idea that humanity has been driven to near-extinction by vicious, possibly alien, creatures who are blind but possessed of a razor sharp, pindrop accurate hearing, it exists Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The disquietening strangeness of Hyperlight
SNAPSHOT Jeananne Goossen (Michelle on The Walking Dead) stars as Emiliana Newton, an astronaut dealing with strange circumstances when her and her partner’s (Peter Shinkoda, aka Nobu of the Hand on Netflix’s Daredevil) cryopods are ejected from the main ship. In the tense opening minutes that bring to mind Continue Reading
#Eurovision movie review: Love.com (Amor.com)
While this is not strictly-speaking a Portuguese movie, it is a Portuguese-language one (made in Brazil) and so fit the criteria to be crowned this year’s #Eurovision film. Love, they say, is a many-splendoured thing; it is, and here the romantics of the mysterious “they” are studiously silent, also Continue Reading
Jabberjaw and Aquaman together fighting dystopian nightmares? You better believe it!
You have to hand to DC Comics – they may not have had much success with their foray into moviedom, save for the stellar success of Wonder Woman, but they sure know they’re away around comic book adaptations of old, beloved Hanna-Barbera characters. Following hot on the heels of Continue Reading
Book review: The Space Between the Stars by Anne Corlett
Once again the worlds have come to an end. No, that is not a typo – I do indeed mean multiple worlds; for in Anne Corlett’s impressive debut novel The Space Between the Stars – the title is a reference to hearing the voice of “god”, however you interpret Continue Reading