SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY MORE HUMANITY (AND WAY LESS OXYGEN) THAN YOUR AVERAGE PIECE OF APOCALYPTIC STORYTELLING … The thing that has been most compelling about Fear the Walking Dead from the word go has been its willingness to wear its humanity on its sleeve. While its parent 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!
Ruinworld and the trouble that comes with stealing cursed chests
SNAPSHOT RuinWorld is a fantasy adventure comic about treasure a couple of hunters that find themselves in a heap of trouble after stealing a cursed chest. (official synopsis via Ruinworld/Tapas) If you’re ever tempted to steal a cursed chest in a land replete with fantasy and adventure, and some Continue Reading
Puppets from socks! Jim Henson’s 1969 inventive masterclass on an age-old artform
SNAPSHOT Jim Henson and Muppeteers show kids how to make puppets from simple things like socks. This video aired on Public Television in 1969, prior to Sesame Street, on Iowa Public Television’s Volume See kids’ show. (source: Laughing Squid) I have long loved the work of Jim Henson. A Continue Reading
First impressions: Atypical (Netflix)
There’s no such thing as normal. That’s the refreshing message from Atypical, a new(ish) Netflix series created by Robia Rashid, about one charming young man on the autism spectrum, which ends up beautifully exploring the idea that none of us are really as normal as we’d like to think Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Famous movie clothing in itsy-bitsy window displays
It has long been said, in one form or another, that “clothes maketh the man (or woman)”. What is not as commonly remarked, but is no less true, is that clothes, or in this case, costumes, maketh the movie. One person who recognises that to the very core of Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
There are a great many books I remember fondly from my childhood – the rest of the Rip’d from the Pages of My Childhood series is testament to that – but there is one series in particular that I adore to this day because I fell in love with Continue Reading
Pretty as a deer: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh. After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a Continue Reading
Book review: The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Life is a complicated thing. Anyone who has reached adulthood with life, limbs and psyche relatively intact will attest to the fact that for all its capacity for magical delight and soul-consuming wonder, life also comes with some fairly onerous demands. It’s a hard enough ask for anyone Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 memory-rich songs
Songs, like smells, have the ability to instantly take us to places and times that played a formative, or in some cases, memorably incidental, role in our lives. It can take only a bar or two and suddenly the memories are flooding back, immersing us once again in that Continue Reading
Getting adorable in a galaxy far, far away: New-ish Star Wars Blips
There is no such thing as too much Star Wars – unless you’re a diehard Star Trek fan in which case maybe but still c’mon you can love both can’t you? – and so I bequeath these three new-ish Star Wars Blips videos which were released last month. Given Continue Reading