* SPOILERS … AND A RATHER NASTY DOSE OF REALITY LIE AHEAD * Life, especially life in the apocalypse, doesn’t really play fair does it? There you are, all happy and content, playing happy families behind tall, strong walls, making like life is as it’s always been when, 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!
Dev has a lot of questions: Aziz Ansari stars in Master of None
SNAPSHOT Master of None follows the personal and professional lives of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and both sweeping in scope and intensely personal, Dev’s Continue Reading
“Demented” reading: Kids books get a pop culture makeover courtesy of Joey Spiotto
One of my wondrous parts of my childhood was sitting down with all my Little Golden Books and reading the afternoon away. There was something so enticing about the iconic book line, with its glittering gold spine and array of storytelling possibilities, that had me hooked from the word Continue Reading
A melting pot of marvel: New stills and cast info for Zootopia
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading
Love isn’t just for the movies: The enduring creative romance of Harold and Lillian
It can be tempting to think, at times, that love, true love, is an elusive concept; an overly optimistic idea whose true home is not in the rough-and-tumble of real life, but in the movies, TV, popular art. Anywhere it seems but in the rubber-hits-the-road realness of day to Continue Reading
Poster me this! Star Wars: The Force Awakens character posters
Unless you are stuck on a rock, or under it, floating somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy, you’d have no doubt heard there’s a new Star Wars movie in the offing. Oh hell, I’m sure that even in the remotest parts of the Outer Rim Territories moviegoers Continue Reading
Book review: Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson
It’s a rare life indeed that isn’t without some kind of drama or another. But to listen to Howard York, the ebullient, charming, larger-than-life owner of the Hotel Alpha on London’s Euston Road, you would swear that life is simply a series of slightly annoying obstacles easily overcome with Continue Reading
Tumbling every which way in Alice Through the Looking Glass (teaser trailers)
SNAPSHOT Mia Wasikowska is joined by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, as well as franchise newbies Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time. Tim Burton returns in a Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Here’s Not Here” (S6, E4 review)
* SPOILERS, AND THE PATH TO SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT LIE AHEAD * “Here’s Not Here” was a remarkable episode in many ways. It wasn’t simply that it followed last week’s action-packed, high-adrenaline episode “Thank You” in which – SPOILER! – Glenn died/did not die/got way too close to a dumpster for Continue Reading
Simon’s Cat is Off to the Vet … and he ain’t happy about it
SNAPSHOT In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. The book shares its theme with the first ever full colour Simon’s Cat 12 minute longer format film (to Continue Reading