If you’ve ever been a recipient of Cupid’s mostly-accurate arrow, you would be among the first to admit there is rarely anything “old” or boring above love. But the movie genre that celebrates this most delectable, transportive and logic-scrambling of life events? Ah well, that is another thing entirely. Romantic comedies 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: Disney princes imagined as handsome real men by Jirka Väätäinen
You’ve got to admit that when it comes to time in the Disney sun, the Disney princesses get pretty much all the attention. But what about the poor Disney princes? Well fret no more for Finnish-born, Australia-resident Jirka Väätäinen has more than made sure than the likes of Prince Eric Continue Reading
All Hayao Miyazaki, all the time: Short film celebrates the master animator’s much-loved creations
Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) is rightly regarded as one of the master animators of the modern era. A gifted storyteller with an enthralling ability to conjure up evocative characters and the beguiling, unique worlds they inhabit, he examines and celebrates the human condition in ways few other animators, besides Pixar, Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Pope Breaks Bad” (S5, E4 review)
*THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … SPOILERS I TELL YOU! AND A BALD POPE (NO, NOT THAT ONE)* Let’s us all agree here and now shall we that Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) would make a lousy therapist? Possessed of the emotional tact of a phalanx of tanks rolling across a Continue Reading
“Let’s blow stuff up!”: Guardians of the Galaxy gets even more animated (teaser trailer)
You might be thinking, and if you are, well congratulations you for not letting those neurons sparkly idly for no reason, that Guardians of the Galaxy, one of my favourite movies from 2014, is already plenty animated enough. After all, save for a few touching, heartfelt scenes, one of Continue Reading
Love & Mercy: what Brian Wilson’s story tells us about genius and music (curated article)
by Liam Viney, The University of Queensland Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see – Arthur Schopenhauer Love & Mercy (2015), currently in cinemas, is a non-fictional recreation of two important and contrasting periods in the life of the Beach Continue Reading
To vocal infinity and beyond! Brock Baker serves up 24 Pixar voices in 5 fun-filled minutes
There is an art to inspired mimicry. It’s not enough to sound like the character you’re impersonating, you must embody their mannerisms and personality too. Effectively, you have to become that character. It’s clearly not a lesson Brock Baker needs to learn. A talented impressionist, who bring a host Continue Reading
Everyone knows She’s Funny That Way (Poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT From renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, “She’s Funny That Way” is a screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production. When established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots) in a new play to star Continue Reading
What Pet Should I Get? Dr Seuss has a new book worth a look!
This has surely got to rank as one of the best news stories of the year. 24 years after his death in 1991, Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, has not one but three new books ready to be published, discovered, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in Continue Reading
Attaboy, there’s a Good Dinosaur … trailer
There is no such thing as too many Pixar movies in one year. Especially after a year (2014) where there were no movies from the rightly acclaimed animation powerhouse at all. Hot, relative again to last year’s Pixar drought on the heels of the beyond superlative Inside Out, comes Continue Reading