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
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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 Salesman
If you are to believe the extremists of the world, morality is lived in bright well-defined technicolour, with no room for ambiguity or misinterpretation. However, the reality is that while there are core principles that should be observed, much of them possessing a distinct Ten Commandments flavour, life is Continue Reading
Now this is music #85: Bad Wave, Rubblebucket, Deidre & the Dark, Fufanu, Grace Mitchell (+ Eurovision 2017 news)
In those moments when life seems just a little too complicated for its own good, or more pertinently, ours, you might wish that things were a whole lot simpler. And while, yes, there’s a good case to be made for a simple life, there’s a lot to be said Continue Reading
Bogan* : An hilarious parody that shows how washed-up Wolverine actually is
You really have to have watched the trailer for one of this year’s best movies Logan – but by all means watching the whole film which is just superb – to realise that Wolverine aka James Howlett is a mere near non-invincible shadow of his former self. In the Continue Reading
Book review: Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan
If you have ever fallen in love, you will be all too aware of how all-consumingly wonderful it can be, how it overwhelms you in the best possible way, reshaping your reality so profoundly that it becomes well-nigh impossible to remember a time when the object of your fierce Continue Reading
Go way back prehistorically when with Aardman’s Early Man
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug, along with sidekick Hognob unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own game. It Continue Reading
Colony: “Tamam Shud” / “The Garden of Beasts” (S2, E9 & E10 review)
SPOILERS, DRONES AND VINTAGE PLANES, OH MY AHEAD It’s time to dig out all your analogue antiques everyone! While you may love your smartphone, adore your tablet computer and feel joined at the hip to your Netflix subscription, the truth of the matter is that, come the alien apocalypse, all Continue Reading
Can’t an evil Sith Lord get interviewed in peace anymore? (Parody video)
In this fantastically-fast, interconnected digital world of ours, it doesn’t take long for anyone to see the latest viral video sensation nor for people to begin parodying the hilarious hell out of it, mostly to great effect. Such was the case when a video of Professor Robert Kelly being Continue Reading
Movie review: Kong Skull Island
By and large, big, dumb fun monster blockbusters are not exactly known for pushing the envelope. Beholden by their very nature to an A to B narrative – they are, if nothing else, escape from danger movies on an epic scale – with little to no wiggle room, they Continue Reading
Life after un-death is harder than you think: The Burning World book trailer
SNAPSHOT R is recovering from death. He’s learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart – building a new world from the ashes of the old one. And then helicopters appear Continue Reading