Turducken for one, anyone? For sure, but only if you’ll “Drink with me/ ’cause I hate my family” … It seems like a fair swap, especially in the midst of the crazy frenetic, brain-melting busyness of the festive season when all the stresses of life seem to be distilled 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!
Who will fight the Robot Overlords? (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “It has been three years since the robot invasion of earth. Sean Flynn has never given up hope that his missing father might still be alive. All humans have been fitted with transmitters to ensure they obey the cardinal rule of the robot empire — that they stay Continue Reading
Festive FUNX3: Jingle Bell Rocks! documentary, Kristen Bell’s “Text Me Merry Christmas” and Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever
I am a Christmas music junkie. Hell I am a Christmas junkie full stop. But one of the things I love most about the season, and which I appreciate many other people hate (especially those in retail who are listening to festive tunes from October onwards), are the Christmas Continue Reading
Playing with stormtroopers: fun riffs on Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer
One of the best ways of working out how big a movie or TV release is these days is seeing if it receives the LEGO treatment and in what kind of timeframe. The quicker the LEGO-isation, and yes that is now a word, the higher your pop culture phenomenon Continue Reading
If only: An art exhibition that showcases posters for movie sequels we wish had been made
Have you noticed something when it comes to the sorts of movies Hollywood produces? They never seem to make sequels of the movies we really want to immerse ourselves in again and churn ones for movies better left alone – Speed 2 anyone? Nah I didn’t think so. Thankfully, Continue Reading
Now this is music #42: POOM, Ghost Loft, MyLyricalMind, Pomplamoose, Misun
The theme of the latest collection of musical riches to grace this series is diversity, reflected not only in the spread of sounds offered by the musicians featured but also in their willingness to play around with said sounds, to push and squeeze and cajole into all manner of sonically-pleasiong Continue Reading
Movie review: Nightcrawler
When you first see Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the sociopathic protagonist of Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (Gilroy both wrote and directed the film), you are struck by his haggard, gaunt, sunken-eyes appearance, as if his body has long fled, leaving behind only a husk of a man. And in many ways Continue Reading
I am STILL Groot: The breakout star of Guardians of the Galaxy
SNAPSHOT Guardians of the Galaxy is directed by James Gunn (Slither, Super). Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Coda” (S5, E8 mid-season finale review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SCHOOL FULL OF APPLE-LESS ZOMBIES … SO MUCH FOR THE TEACHER’S FRUIT BREAK * You have to hand it to creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple, and the entire The Walking Dead team, in this case writer Angela Kang and director Ernest Dickerson. With Continue Reading
“That’s so gorgant!” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s first 2015 Golden Globes promo
Yes “gorgant” (pron. gorj-ant) is a word! Especially if the originators of said word, which naturally denotes, class, style and awards show fabulousness are none other than comedy legends, Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), who are back for their third (and sadly, final), no doubt Continue Reading