*** THERE BE SPOILERS … AND ROAMERS/WALKERS/ROTTERS AND LOVE SWEET LOVE AHEAD *** Heaven, I’m in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek (as sung by Frank 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!
Big Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Orange Pants): Sesame Street’s delightful parody of Oscar winner Birdman
Birdman is a remarkably brilliant movie. And Sesame Street, 45 years old and going strong, is remarkably well-versed in the art of both educating children and parodying occupiers of the pop culture zeitgeist. Together they have created the remarkably delightful parody video of Big Birdman, that plays off one of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Lilting #queerscreen
Anyone who has ever experienced any form of profound loss will know all too well that grief is a peculiar, never ending lament with a thousand different reminders everywhere you turn. The truth of this painful reality is authentically conveyed in starkly moving, intimate terms in Hong Khaou’s largely assured Continue Reading
Giddy up! The Wyld Stallyns ride again in the comic book Bill and Ted’s Triumphant Return
SNAPSHOT Following the time-traveling historic epic of Excellent Adventure and the turbulent life and death of Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted must now fulfill their destiny as the inspiration for galactic harmony! How can someone hate the Wyld Stallyns as much as the evil Chuck De Nomolos? With the Continue Reading
Movie review: Trash #StGeorgeOpenAir
If you’ve even so much as vaguely read any of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five novels or perused an old and tattered copy of Boys’ Own magazine, you might be tempted to think that life for young boys is a gripping mash-up of dodging buffoonish anti-heroes, getting into trouble that resolves Continue Reading
“You are my home now”: Jamie pours out his heart to Claire in Outlander’s swoon-worthy new trailer
SNAPSHOT he “Outlander” series spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history, and adventure in one epic tale. It follows Claire Randall as she navigates the hidden dangers of 18th century Scotland, an unknown world where her freedom and very life are at risk. When she is forced to Continue Reading
Play Ariana Grande or eat a carrot with Funny or Die’s Billy Eichner, Michelle Obama and Big Bird
Despite their prevalence on early evening TV network schedules, I can frankly take or leave quiz shows. Usually leave, but if you tied me to a chair in a head hold that forced to look straight ahead at a TV screen and only at the TV screen with the Continue Reading
“I’m not your property … or your toy … or …”: Orphan Black drops intense season 3 teaser trailers
With just two months until BBC America sends in the clones all over again (pun quite clearly intended and happily revelled in), the New World offshoot of the UK’s national broadcaster has unveiled, one-by-one via Instagram, a series of dramatically-intense, defiant new teaser trailers profiling each of the female Continue Reading
Now this is music #45: Hunny, Steve Aoki and Moxie, Violet Skies, Royal, Anna O
No one ever said being a member of the human race was an undertaking for the fainthearted. Possessed of emotions richly-diverse and maddeningly contradictory, we rarely take the straightforward path through life, seesawing between happy and sad, angry and calm, content and agitated, often all at once. That’s why Continue Reading
Movie review: Selma
History is a crowded place, littered more often than not with recurrent and egregious examples of man’s inhumanity to man. But it is also, thankfully, marked by the brave examples of men and women, in great numbers and starkly alone, who, rather than remain complicit in a system that Continue Reading