One of the great sacred rites of my childhood, which all my family observed with suitable pomp, ceremony and gleeful delight, but alas without wearing clothes made from hideously-ugly curtains, was sitting down to watch the annual screening on our sole commercial TV station – yes the barbarism of limited 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!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious goes death metal: Mary Poppins as you’ve never heard her before
It will come as no surprise to anyone that movies often significantly depart from the books upon which they are based. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are a diminished form of the story; simply different. Some authors, however such as J. D. Salinger and Roald Dahl, most certainly thought the movie adaptations Continue Reading
Movie review: Queens and Cowboys #mgff2015
Food, water and shelter aside, one of the most basic needs a person can have is the one to belong. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or even admit to its existence, all of us are looking for a group of likeminded people we can call family, Continue Reading
Velociraptors on motorcycles! This Jurassic Park parody video is pre-hysterically funny
I have no doubt that the upcoming Jurassic World film, which features Chris Pratt as velociraptor-wrangling, Indian Jones-arua emitting, dinosaur DNA-fiddling averse hero-in-the-making Owen Grady will be a tour deforce of edge-of-your-seat prehistoric thrill-making. And I am also fully convinced that the dinosaurs that will fill the film, from said Continue Reading
You know we can’t Let It Go: new short Frozen Fever gets a trailer worth holding on to
As you may have noticed if you haven’t been trapped under an ice floe for the past 15 months or so (and possibly still even then), Frozen, Disney’s music-filled, visually-stunning, heartwarming take on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Snow Queen”, is a BIG DEAL. I mean, grossed $1.2bn [insert Dr. Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Félix And Meira (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT In Maxime Giroux’s latest feature, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal’s Mile End district who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and Continue Reading
The smart sounds and bright colours of Faded Paper Figures
It seems to have been a recurring pattern in my music-appreciating life that the bands I fall for most heavily and with the most passion are the ones that seemingly come out of nowhere. It’s been the case with artists as diverse as Bombay Bicycle Club, who I came Continue Reading
Movie review: A Most Violent Year
The clock is ticking, ticking loud and fast in J. C. Chandor’s slow-burning tale of one man’s pursuit of the American Dream, A Most Violent Year. It is 1981, statistically one of the most violent in New York’s history, and aspiring businessman, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is intent on Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: The Distance (S5, E11 review)
*** THERE BE SPOILERS … AND ROAMERS/WALKERS/ROTTERS AND LOVE SWEET LOVE AHEAD *** Heaven, I’m in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek (as sung by Frank Continue Reading
Big Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Orange Pants): Sesame Street’s delightful parody of Oscar winner Birdman
Birdman is a remarkably brilliant movie. And Sesame Street, 45 years old and going strong, is remarkably well-versed in the art of both educating children and parodying occupiers of the pop culture zeitgeist. Together they have created the remarkably delightful parody video of Big Birdman, that plays off one of the Continue Reading