Sure we’ve often seen R2-D2 helping to save the galaxy from the evils of the Galactic Empire but beneath that blue and silver gleaming squat body and the adorable bleeps and squeals beats the heart of a sweet and sensitive droid. A droid, we might add thanks to Jeffrim Sheroky’s 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!
She’s so rebellious: Jyn Erso gets her parody on in Rogue One parody trailer #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Rogue One, as those who saw the standalone Star Wars film that told the tale of the many brave people who sacrificed a great deal the plans for the first Death Star that was blown to smithereens in A New Hope, it is a grim film. Peppered by some Continue Reading
Wars? No. How about Star Peacefully Resolved Conflicts instead? #MayThe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOT What if the ‘war’ in Star Wars was resolved peacefully? Except if you start smoking in a non-smoking area. If you do that you should prepare for the worst. My little brother asked me to make a Star Wars where Luke Skywalker looked like him. And fortunately he Continue Reading
First impressions: Insecure
Issa Rae is a bright, innately charming, intelligent black woman with grand dreams and nascent expectations of life. She is however, like many of us, unsure about it is she goes about making them those shiny visions of the promised land a reality. Insecure, her Netflix series which winningly Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The moving mother-daughter dynamics of Goblin Queen
SNAPSHOT An overbearing mother struggles to parent her daughter, Amber Lynn, who keeps disappearing to rule a magical land. But when a dangerous creature follows Amber Lynn home, her mother must confront the reality of who her daughter has become. (synopsis via Vimeo) Growing up is not the easiest Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 6 – Norway, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, The Netherlands + Russia
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
Weekend pop art: Exquisitely-rendered models of TV show sets
There are times, many times in fact if you’re a regular devoted viewer of a particular TV show that you feel like you’re living in the show with the characters. Granted some people take this a little too far, getting to the point, where they believe the characters and Continue Reading
Love, business and friendship: Thoughts on Grace and Frankie (season 3, eps 1-4)
One of the great delights of Grace and Frankie from the very start has been the wonderful friendship between the two titular characters that underpins the entire show. In contrast to many other sitcoms that present friendships with all the depth of a shallow Petri dish, with about as much Continue Reading
Cheese Trouble: The glorious fun of Wallace & Gromit meeting the Minions
As fun, whimsical calling cards go, they don’t come much better than director and editor Fabrice Mathieu‘s seamless editing together of Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit, and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions. In his delightful mash-up Cheese Trouble, the Minions forgo their usual food of choice, bananas!, in favour of cheese Continue Reading
Movie review: Voyage to Greenland (Le Voyage au Groenland)
Much as we like to think we can push and pummel life to fit our preconceived notions, the truth is it has an often perverse way of defying our expectations. Try as we might, and many of us try pretty hard, usually in our youth when possibilities seem endless and Continue Reading