SNAPSHOT A ghost (Casey Affleck) silently observes his grieving widow (Rooney Mara) in his beloved home. (official synopsis via Coming Soon) Losing someone you love is gut-wrenchingly, near world-endingly sad. There is simply no way, at least at first, to begin to process the enormity of your loss, how 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!
Movie review: The LEGO Batman Movie
If you are to believe the naysayers, and quite frankly you shouldn’t if you value any sense of fun or inner child-likeness, films like The LEGO Batman Movie are nothing but crass commercial undertakings, barely-disguised toy advertisements that somehow sully the noble art of filmmaking. The truth is, of Continue Reading
It’s one small step for … wait, no, someone said that! Hyper Jump astronaut struggles to be inspirational
Rich in encouragement and emotional resonance though they are, we all too often take inspirational addresses from major figures like Abraham Lincoln, President John F Kennedy, Maya Angelou and others of their calibre for granted. But as one panicking astronaut discovers in Hyper Jump, a short film from UpbeatXProjects about Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 3 – Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden
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
Is she really Unqualified? You’d better ask Anna Faris
When first you hear about Anna Faris’s forthcoming book being called Unqualified, you think “How can that be right? She is quite likely, astrophysicists and medical specialists aside, one of the most qualified people to write a book about, well, almost anything. Except for, you know, astrophysics or medical Continue Reading
Now this is music #86 – Francis and the Lights, NIIA, Emma Sameth, Dyan, For Esme
Today is a hard day for me. It’s my dad’s first birthday since he died on 10 June last year and as with all the first days since someone you loved dearly dies, it has left me feeling deeply reflective, a little sad and lost and not up to Continue Reading
Visit Green Gables: Come meet Anne all over again (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and many challenges, fights for love and acceptance and her place in the world. Set in Prince Edward Island in the late 1890s, the series centers on Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty), a young orphaned girl who, Continue Reading
Movie review: In Bed With Victoria
It pretty much goes without saying but life is a messy, often unpredictable business. While he Tony Robbins and Martha Stewarts of the world would have you believe that the chaotic business of living can be corralled and civilised, the average person knows that it’s not quite that simple. Continue Reading
Just four fingers? How most cartoon characters came to be missing an appendage
SNAPSHOT Cartoon characters have had four fingers for as long as we can remember. Sure, some cartoons have five fingers, but the majority of animation shows characters with only four fingers. How did this become the standard in the animation industry? Will cartoons always only have four fingers? We Continue Reading
Colony: “Lost Boy” / “Seppuku” (S2, E11 & E12)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, RELIGIOUS DISILLUSIONMENT … AND ONE REALL MESSY ROOF* It will surprise no one that humanity is a self-destructively contrary creature, just as apt to heroically sacrifice itself in the pursuit of a pure ideal, as it is to self-sabotage if it thinks that Continue Reading