A sense of belonging is an intrinsic part of the human experience. Not everyone wants to admit it of course with many people, for a variety of reasons, doing their best to keep the rest of humanity at bay by fair means and foul. One such person, Rex (Michael 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: Muppets get their superhero apocalyptic vibe on thanks to JoopaDoops
As a life long Muppets fan, I am most definitely of the opinion that there is very little on this planet that can’t be improved by their presence. Among these many and varied things, are superhero and apocalyptic road movies, two themes that a very talented artist called Justin Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hatchlings” (S5, E3 review)
*SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND LAST DITCH OVERLORDS AHEAD* There’s nothing like a walk in the countryside is there? All that fresh, bracing air, the inspiring views, the sense that you are away from everyone and everything … well, that is, unless, of course you’re Rage Tom Continue Reading
Little Golden Books go to a galaxy far, far away with their new Star Wars editions
Behold a most perfect together of pop culture wonderfulness! It has been announced, no doubt from an orbiting battle cruiser somewhere high above Tattoine that Little Golden Books, that bastion of imaginative childrens’ storytelling in very small packaging, will be soon be journeying to a galaxy far, far away, Continue Reading
Movie review: Hallå hallå
Disa (Maria Sid) is one very disappointed woman. Disappointed by life, by the way a resolute playing by the rules – husband TICK! Kids TICK! Job TICK! Compliant acquiescing to everything expected of her TICK! – seems to be have yielded her nothing but dashed hopes and dreams. Though Continue Reading
Blood red sky: Edvard Munch’s “Scream” comes to life in this brilliant short animated film
SNAPSHOT I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my Continue Reading
Book review: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Grief is often an all-consuming state. No matter how we try to lift ourselves out of it, it pulls us back in, unwilling to let us go from the misery, pain and agony of things lost, never to be regained. Or at least, regained in the form in which we Continue Reading
Norman Reedus fights for breath in Robert Kirkman’s Air (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Air follows two caretakers of a facility specifically set-up to deal with the fact Earth atmosphere is all but destroyed. They’re humanity’s last hope as they release cryogenically frozen personnel from the underground bunker to test out what they believe to be the last habitable place on the Continue Reading
Crossovers! When TV show worlds collide
You can never get too much of a good thing right? Of course not! It’s an ethos that has fuelled many an all-night party, a weekend-long TV watching binge on Netflix and crossover episodes, where “two or more TV shows [are revealed] to exist in the same fictional universe” (according Continue Reading
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Oh yes it is, it really, really is!
If you’re anything like me, and you may or may not regret wondering if you are, then it’s probably never have occurred to you to mash up Max Max Fury Road, the latest critically and commercially successful entry in the venerable apocalyptic franchise, and 1963’s road trip comedies to Continue Reading