I believe it was that great musical philosopher Annie who once opined in song that “You’re never fully dressed without a smile.” In which case, in this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, mysteriously titled “Them” (there are a couple of contenders), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Daryl (Norman 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!
There is nowhere else to go: Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror masterpiece Crimson Peak (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “Legendary Pictures’ Crimson Peak, a co-production with Universal Pictures, is a haunting gothic horror story directed by the master of dark fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy series, Pacific Rim), written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins and starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Continue Reading
Book review: Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
New beginnings, truly new beginnings, are a rare thing in life. Either they are not looked for at all by people caught in the slothful yet iron grip of the devil-they-know, or if time and circumstances do demand their provision, not granted by whatever mysterious powers in the universe Continue Reading
You want 20 TV theme songs in two minutes? Daniel Koren can help you with that!
I stand impressed. It is one thing to create a medley mashup of TV theme songs with each segueing reasonably neatly into the other and make them sound like they kind of sort of belong together. But talented New York musician Daniel Koren has managed to not just weave Continue Reading
Santa Claus in Ethiopia: The fantastically quirky apocalyptic world of Crumbs (trailer)
Much like the apocalyptic world in which its off-kilter quirky story takes place, Crumbs by director Miguel Llanso, a Spain/Ethiopian/Finland co-production that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year, appears to have been blasted so far out of “the box” that it occupies a realm few other sci-fi Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The beauty of the crystallised cast of The Walking Dead
Life isn’t easy in an apocalyptic environment. What with megalomaniacal, sociopathic Governors, endless herds of walkers, cannibals, deceitful fake scientists and the constant threat of starvation/injury/rabid squirrels (there is such a thing and yes you should be concerned, thank you), it doesn’t take much, as we’ve seen often among Continue Reading
My Fandom Valentine: Find out what your favourite pop culture characters think about love sweet love
You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading
It’s a case of true love interrupting life in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Trainwreck is directed by Judd Apatow from a script he co-wrote with comedian Amy Schumer. The film follows a complete basket case (Schumer) trying to rebuild her life with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader) best friend and parent in tow. The cast also includes Brie Larson, Mike Birbigla, Continue Reading
Movie review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
Depending on how you look at it, we live either in a cynical age stripped bare of boundless unquestioning faith in pretty much anything, or one in which everything is gloriously fair game, a postmodern scrambling of all that has gone before in which nothing can be viewed except through Continue Reading
‘Cause I’m happy! Well … HAPPY-ish (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT “Coogan stars in the lead role of Thom Payne, a 44-year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25-year-old “wunderkind” boss arrives, saying things like “digital”, “social” and “viral”. Is he in need of a “rebranding”, or does he just have a “low joy ceiling?” Maybe Continue Reading