Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you begin an espionage action movie. Particularly one as gloriously over the top, in all the best possible ways, as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the latest instalment in the classic TV show-cum -movie franchise that literally shows no sign of slowing down anytime 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!
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
We are not a patient people any more. Too many words on the page? Not gonna read that. Song goes over three minutes. Off goes the radio. TV program doesn’t have three deaths, an epidemic, alien and zombies by the gigazillion in the first two minutes … well “Hello!” Continue Reading
“We are the (flying) Men in Black”: Air New Zealand’s funky new air safety video
Let’s be honest. Not a lot of us pay attention to the necessarily ubiquitous safety videos that every airlines plays before takeoff. I am one of the very few who actually does it, figuring knowing how survive the “unlikely event of an aircraft crash” – see I have even memorised Continue Reading
Movie review: Holding the Man
History, it has been often be observed, is written by the victors. Or at the very least, by those who manage to outlast everyone else around them. However, in the case of Tim Conigrave (Ryan Corr), the author of posthumously-published iconic memoir Holding the Man, now a deeply-moving film Continue Reading
Risking it all for love: New extended Carol trailer
SNAPSHOT Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novella The Price of Salt, which tells the story of a lesbian romance in the ’50s written by Highsmith under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The rather unprecedented homosexual love story–for the time in which it was written–follows the relationship between two very different Continue Reading
Short and short of it: “I’m Going to Bite Someone” (a shark with a message)
It’s going to come as no surprise to anyone that the natural environment is being trashed at a frighteningly prodigious rate. And while pretty much everyone will agree Something Should Be Done, getting them to listen in detail to the issues at hand can be a challenge. Which is Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street’s Game of Thrones?
You may or may not have noticed that finding the way to Sesame Street is now going to entail a 9 month detour to HBO. In news that surprised many people, but which upon examination is pretty much a win-win for all concerned, Sesame Workshop (previously the Childrens’ Television Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The Moomins get their otherworldly freak on with Ingella Hallberg’s The Moomin Project
One of the loveliest parts of my childhood was spending countless hours immersed in the Moomintroll (Swedish: Mumintroll) books written by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. What was so lovely about the books was the way the very family-minded Moomins ended up including an idiosyncratically-eclectic group of other characters Continue Reading
Book review: The Gospel According to Drew Barrymore by Pippa Wright
Every religion has to start somewhere, and for the Gospel According to Drew Barrymore by Pippa Wright, a system of belief for our celebrity-obsessed age if ever there was one, it’s in the early ’80s in the playroom of 7 year old Esther and younger sister Sophie when a new Continue Reading
Pooping is Logical! A most original Vulcan take on the art of potty training
SNAPSHOT The book is told from the perspective of two very patient Vulcan parents who want to teach their child that not only is pooping is a natural process, but doing it in a toilet instead of a diaper makes much more sense. Vulcans are known for their logic Continue Reading