Since 2011 when EA’s Stars Wars: The Old Republic was released, players in this Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game, and according to MAXIM, it is massive indeed, have been able to imagine themselves in the roles of Jedi Knight, Sith Lord, Bounty and Smuggler with the added bonus of being 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!
Weekend pop art: Doctor Who meets Mr Men in new book series
What does a Dalek’s tickle feel like? That may sound like an odd question to ask since the monstrous creations of Davros are more likely to exterminate than engage in mirth-filled jocularity, but it’s a play on the question asked by Adam Hargreaves back in 1971 (“What does a Continue Reading
Now this is music #78: Petite Meller, Bastille, Attlas, How to Dress Well, Oliver
Love is a complicated beast. We love it , we hate it, we want it, we have it, we hope someone will love us, we despair when they don’t. All those freewheeling, cartwheeling possibilities, love’s inherent contradictions, joys, possibilities and soul-crushing disappointments provide a rich well from which a Continue Reading
Well hello Star-Lord! Guardians of the Galaxy 2 has a teaser trailer and the universe rejoices
SNAPSHOT Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage. Continue Reading
Movie review: The Girl on the Train
It’s early on in Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Paula Hawkins, that you realise how supremely broken Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) has been left by recent events in her life. Riding to and from New York each Continue Reading
Welcome to Coal Hill Academy where Class is most definitely in!
SNAPSHOT What if your planet was massacred and you were the sole survivor? What if a legendary figure out of space and time found you a place to hide? But what if the things that want to kill you have tracked you down? And worst of all, what if you Continue Reading
First impressions: Flaked
There’s something oddly compelling about antiheroes. While they’re not as perfectly put-together as the Prince Charmings of this world, who take more than their fair share of damsels in distress and live happily ever after more often than not, they do have very important relatable quality – they are Continue Reading
Little Sister: Coming home is never easy
SNAPSHOT It’s October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and Continue Reading
Indoorsy: What hilariously happens when 3 agoraphobics open a spa in their apartment
Life as an agoraphobic isn’t easy. And while our ever-diversifying digital age offers all kinds of opportunities for the housebound, or in the case of a new web series, Indoorsy about three agoraphobic friends who open a day spa in their home, the apartment-bound to have amazing careers, run Continue Reading
Movie review: The Fundamentals of Caring
There is a thread of storytelling that runs through many a tale that posits that all you need to rediscover the many and myriad joys of being alive is to have just the right person come into your life and shake things up just so at, naturally enough, just Continue Reading