We are just days, mere days, away from eight more episodes of season 5 of The Walking Dead, a show dedicated to survival, zombie-killing and philosophical musings on the nature of humanity and whether you can return to the person you were before you did what was necessary to 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!
Can’t wait to see: Like Sunday, Like Rain (post #1500)
SNAPSHOT Surrounded by wealth and living with abundant resources in Manhattan, 12-year-old cello prodigy and all around genius Reggie (Julian Shatkin), lives a solitary, bookish life lacking only frequently absent parents and friends. Estranged from family, having slacker boyfriend troubles, and fired from her waitressing job, sometimes musician 23-year-old Continue Reading
We are all made of water: The apocalypse continues anew with Surface Tension (New comic book series trailer)
My lord humanity you really can’t catch a break now can you? If it’s not virulent pandemics, or zombie hordes, alien invasions or ecological catastrophe, it’s something else. In the case in the new apocalyptic comic series from Titan Comics, Surface Tension which is written and drawn by rising star Jay Continue Reading
I am Mr Tickle (d) pink! Mr Men and Little Miss to get a big screen adaptation
I have always love the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters of Roger Hargreaves (now drawn by his son Adam). Created in 1971 by the British author, whose first character Mr Tickle, my personal favourite, was inspired by his son asking him what a tickle would look like – Continue Reading
Now this is music #44: Young Ejecta, Oh Wonder, Aurora, salute feat. Vanessa Elisha, Electric Wire Hustle
Life is a curiously complex thing. Euphorically up one moment, desperately down the next, and a confused hot mess in-between, it is never less than utterly unpredictable even when it feels like it’s stuck in some sort of bland sameness. These five artists, who hail from quite divergent parts Continue Reading
Chomp! Jurassic World gets a giant dinosaur-sized new trailer
Ah humanity! No matter how many “bombs” explode in our face, or how often the darker angels of our nature rise up to shake us with their fury, we somehow fail to see the great big elephant of hubris standing in the room, the one that warns us time Continue Reading
Movie review: Into the Woods
If you think postmodern tinkering with the classics is simply a 21st century internet-accelerated phenomenon, then Into the Woods, both musical and now big screen adaptation, is proof positive that the mixing of old style storytelling and modern telling-it-like-really-is moralistic sensibilities goes back a lot further than that. In Continue Reading
“Ted, do you believe you have a soul?” Yes, and a poster and trailer too.
ted is not for everyone, I will grant you that. Sprung forth from the creative loins of Seth McFarlane, the man who gave us Family Guy and American Dad, all packed to the gasp-inducing rafters with more weird journeys into the twisted parts of his imaginative psyche than we actually knew Continue Reading
“What if there was a place where nothing was impossible?”: New Tomorrowland trailer
SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to Continue Reading
Book review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
For a place and time that humanity is yet to reach, the future dystopian era certainly bears all the hallmarks of a road well travelled. In fact, so well depicted have been its tropes of ruin and decay, its harbingers of humanity’s demise and whirlwind-reaping that you could be Continue Reading