SNAPSHOT Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget 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!
Retro movie review: Forces of Nature
From pretty much every conceivable angle, getting married is a pretty wonderful thing. There’s all that true love forever after (well until the divorce papers are served; whoops, kinds broke the romantic spell there), committing yourself to that special someone, friends and family looking on, dressing up, dressing down Continue Reading
Is there nothing that Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe can’t do? NO #StarWars
If you saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and seriously if you haven’t why not, you will remember it is one of the darkest, most bloody films in the franchise’s considerable canon. Telling the story of the intrepid band of brave rebels who successfully managed to get the Continue Reading
Musicals review: Muriel’s Wedding
Have you ever wished ABBA could be your life guides, there in the tough times with words of advice, leaping out of your bedroom wardrobe to give you company when you’re all alone, and, of course, singing you into a better frame of mind with songs like “Dancing Queen”, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lustre of Lost Things by Sophie Chen Keller
Walter Lavender Jr is a remarkable young man. Gifted with a preternatural ability to locate missing objects in a dazzlingly wide variety of circumstances the length and breadth of New York City, he lives with his mother Lucy at a bakery where the pastries and desserts come alive with Continue Reading
Movie review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t spend their childhood, in some form or another, wandering through the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and the rest of A. A. Milne’s wonderful coterie of honey-loving friends. There was something, and still Continue Reading
Happy Birthday Bert! (5 months late) #SesameStreet
I love birthdays. My birthday. Other peoples’ birthdays. And pop culture characters birthdays. If it involves cake, friends and a party, real or imagined I am there with figurative bells on (or depending on the party, actual bells). I also don’t restrict these celebrations to the actual day of Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat fun music: Dagny, Isador, Blonde Maze, Saints of Valory, Striking Matches
It’s my birthday! Well. really my birthday eve since the big day is actually tomorrow when I shall be an age that I shall not reveal, but close enough. And of course, being a birthday, that means there must be joy, celebration and some thoughtful rumination on life’s great Continue Reading
Party on! Simon’s Cat’s guide to happy birthdays
Simon’s Cat knows how to party! Decorate like crazy (and play with the balloons naturally while you do!), invite good friends over with whom you spend copious amounts of time, treat yo’self (use Community as your guide), read and respond to all the messages … and presents! It goes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Meyerowitz Stories
As much as we like to believe in the idea of “one big happy family”, the reality is that even the most functional and well-adjusted of families have a stubborn streak of dysfunction running through them. Perhaps it’s the inevitable outcome of flawed humanity, or of an innate predilection Continue Reading