“They want to go where Walkers won’t eat their brains.” One of the appealing things about Cheers, which ran for 11 years from 1982-1993 and centred on a group of regulars at a Boston bar, was that everybody knew your name. You belonged, and had to a place to rest 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: Even Bugs Bunny gets wrinkles in Andrew Tarusov’s cartoon reimaginings
Time isn’t kind to us is it? Birthdays come screaming by faster than a Formula 1 car taking a corner, there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done, and to top it all off, even if we slather on the moisturiser and Botox till the Continue Reading
Now this is music #56: TRACE, Okay Kaya, Swim Good, Wales, HONNE
We all want to be moved, to feel something that matters don’t we? In our hustle-and-bustle-filled, all too easily distracted by digital baubles-and-trinkets 21st century world, it’s all too easy to miss the fact that while we’re taking in a lot, we’re not necessarily really hearing it, or feeling it. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The touching ghoulishness of Tombes & Manèges (Tombs and Rides)
With Halloween approaching, we’re reminded that the world can often be a dark and scary place. But as this charming short film, Tombes & Manèges (Tombs and Rides), made by the students of Isart Digital School in Paris, makes gloriously clear, it is also full of wonder, love and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Martian
There are many things that Hollywood loves, but chief among them surely must be an inspirational story about a brave and capable hero who takes on impossible odds and succeeds. It’s a theme that crops up again and again in a myriad of film genres, and generally garners the Continue Reading
Poster me this! The Flash (season 2), Sisters, Zootopia
I am a poster addict, a lover of visual promotion to an insanely devoted degree. There’s something so evocative about the messages conveyed by beautifully-crafted posters, and yes their sheer beauty. I could look at them all day long but of course that would defeat the purpose of the posters Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Good Man” (S1, E6 review)
*SPOILERS … AND ZOMBIES … AND DEATH ALL AROUND AHEAD* One of the most searing lesson from the near universally-well realised first season of Fear the Walking Dead aka When the World Went to Undead Sh*t has been how tenuous civilisation and all the ethics and conventions of upstanding, Continue Reading
This is not a simulation: The intense trailer for sci fi thriller 400 Days
SNAPSHOT Four astronauts sent on a simulated mission to a distant planet to test the psychological effects of deep space travel. Locked away for 400 days, the crew’s mental state begins to deteriorate when they lose all communication with the outside world. Forced to exit the ship, they discover Continue Reading
The Visit and other “accidental” horror films by Ari Mattes (curated article)
The Visit (2015), directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is one of the best of the “found footage” / mockumentary horror films that have proliferated in popular cinema in recent years (including Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, to be released October 22). Shyamalan is, regardless of the general banality of Continue Reading
Mickey Mouse battles his car in new fun-filled cartoon, “Shifting Gears”
Mickey Mouse, the pioneer and the pride of Disney’s animation powerhouse, is back in the short form cartoon business and the results are nothing less than marvellous. A pleasing mix of cutting edge animation and retro look and feel, the cartoons have been playing on The Disney Channel as 3 Continue Reading