Another year, another PVR up in smoke trying to cope with the insane numbers of programs I ask it to keep track of and record. Seriously it didn’t go up in smoke but it came close, damn close, with a multiplicity of new and old shows competing for my 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!
Re-play the music please maestro: The 10 songs I loved most in 2014
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow once observed that “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Never has that been truer than in the second decade of the 21st century where digital technology has allowed music artists across an ever-splintering multiplicity of genres, whether they be an emerging band in Brooklyn or Continue Reading
Re-heating the popcorn: The 10 movies I loved most in 2014
2014 was a phenomenal year to be a movie lover. It seemed like every time you turned around, taking great care not to spill your oversized jumbo pack of popcorn or smear your choctop onto the blouse of the lady next to you, there was another engaging indie drama, Continue Reading
Deck the halls with pop culture icons: Merry Christmas everyone!
Another year over … Hard to believe another 365 days of movie and TV and song and book-filled wonder has passed and we’re here once again greeting Santa Claus with cookies and milk (and likely a zombie, a twerker and faulty stars too). Given it is almost the end Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with pop culture icons
When I bought my first Christmas tree as an adult in 1992 – I was technically an adult for about a decade before that but it took some money and a mindset change before I got around to acquiring my own tree; for years, in my mind at least, the only Continue Reading
Timely Christmas message: Sir Ian McKellen and Cookie Monster learn how to resist
If ever there was a word with which we all need to be familiar at this time of the year, it’s “Resist”. But like Cookie Monster, who doesn’t quite get the concept, the idea of it evades many of us as we saunter off for another bathtub of eggnog, Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I watched “The Grimm Who Stole Christmas”
* HO HO HO! THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW! ** “I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug.” Christmas is without a doubt a most magical time of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Captive
If there is one thing that can be said for Atom Egoyan’s movies of late, it is that he has not surrendered the immersive visual or narrative style that made his name with movies like Exotica (1994) and The Sweet Hereafter (1997). His latest film, The Captive, starring Ryan Continue Reading
On the 10th day of Christmas … I listened to Idina Menzel’s Holiday Wishes
There’s no doubting the sheer awe-inspiring talent of the voice of Frozen, Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran Idina Menzel. She has a voice straight from the gods, one that combines fearsome power and delicate beauty, the sort of stage presence money cannot buy, and the kind of vibrant personality that has Continue Reading
“What does it all mean?” The trailer for Sundance documentary The Visit
SNAPSHOT An alien encounter. A hypothetical visitor arrives from Outer Space. The authorities are immediately alerted – the military, defence and communication advisors, and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. How to deal with this unprecedented event? How to reassure Earth’s inhabitants, who are prone to panic, Continue Reading