We all had imaginary friends growing up. And then suddenly we didn’t as the years advanced and the characters that so filled our childhood years with delight, colour and wonder, were no longer needed, consigned to some soon-to-be-forgotten part of our memories that only the most sentimental of us 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!
Great Scott! It’s Back to the Future day!
SNAPSHOT In this zany sequel, time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty’s future son from disaster, only to discover their own time transformed. In this nightmarish version of Hill Valley, Marty’s father has been murdered and Biff Tannen, Marty’s Continue Reading
The French undead are back: The Returned/Les Revenants season 2 (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT “The second season picks up six months after the deceased disappeared into the mountains with Simon, Camille, her mother, Claire, Julie and the mysterious youngster Victor. Since then, nothing has been heard of them. Now, Adèle is about to give birth to Simon’s child, part of the town Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “JSS” (S6, E2 review)
* SPOILERS … AND WAR AND PEACE AND CASSEROLES AHEAD * “JSS” was the episode where all the blinders came off for pretty much everyone. The good people of Alexandria, those left behind anyway while Rick (Andrew Lincoln) led the more capable fighting members off to steer the zombie Continue Reading
Pixar makes history again: Sanjay’s Super Team
Quite apart from their exquisitely-rendered, emotionally-touching movies, Pixar has also shown itself adept at crafting memorable animated shorts that often say as much in 5 to 8 minutes as their longer brethren. Far from being the unwanted support act to the latest Pixar feature-length masterpiece, the shorts such as Continue Reading
Wisdom from a Ladybird: Children’s books now come with adult life lessons
One of the great pleasures of my childhood was sitting down with my mother or father and reading through a book or three hundred (I was quite the prodigious book consumer, both as a listener, and later, once literate, as a reader). There were many books that passed through Continue Reading
Movie review: Learning to Drive
Modern life is so big, fast-paced and noisy that it’s easy to forget that the transformative experiences that define us, for good or ill, tend to take place unexpectedly in small, quiet, almost unnoticeable ways. It’s a lesson that two quite different people in New York City learn one Continue Reading
Ho Ho Netflix Ho! A new trailer for A Very Murray Christmas
SNAPSHOT Written by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray and Mitch Glazer and directed by Sofia Coppola, ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ is an homage to the classic variety show featuring Bill Murray playing himself, as he worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snow Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Peanuts gang channel their inner Indiana Jones characters
I have always thought there is nothing that the Peanuts gang cannot do. Flying Sopwith Camels in dog fights with the Red Baron, waiting all night in a pumpkin field for the Great Pumpkin to arrive, and god bless you Charlie Brown, chasing after The Little Red-Haired Girl, and Continue Reading
Kick some undead ass! The well-dressed trailer for Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
Purists, particularly those of the Austin persuasion, avert your unsullied eyes now! For the rest of us, who enjoy a jolly good mash-up of Jane Austen social commentary and some very zeitgeisty undead-ness, gaze upon the relatively all-new trailer – I held it over for Halloween itself; the trailer Continue Reading