A protagonist with extraordinary powers or perceptive abilities is hardly a rarity in popular fiction. Movies, TV shows, and books are full to the brim with men and women possessing superhuman strength, metamorphic talents or sensory abilities that allow them to see the dead, fight supernatural creatures and powers, fight battles beyond 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!
Weekend pop art: From thrift store paintings comes pop culture gold
I think it would be fair to say that most of us don’t immediately thinking of heading to our local thrift store – in Australia, they’re known as “op shops” short for “opportunity shops” – to procure some art for our homes. After all, while the art there is Continue Reading
Poster me this! The pun-tastic posters of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
SNAPSHOT [Night at the Mueum: Secret of the Tomb] starts at the original home, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, where the vibrant exhibits were discovered after closing time in 2006’s Night at the Museum (2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took place in Washington, D.C.). Continue Reading
Pixar FUNX3: Inside Out (new posters + trailers), Toy Story Time Forgot (new trailer) + what the voice actors really look like
SNAPSHOT “From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley. Growing up Continue Reading
Fresh ink: brilliant new artwork by Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
It’s a rare day indeed that new artwork surfaces from one of the great masters of the comic artform, Bill Watterson, the man who gave us Calvin and Hobbes, one of the greatest comic strips to ever grace newspaper pages. He has only emerged from his self-imposed retirement on two Continue Reading
Now this is music 41: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Banoffee, Vanic X K. Flay, Dream Police, A Rainmaker
The year may be screaming to a close – well not so much screaming as lushly and compellingly flowing fast if you take this wonderful collection of five artists and their amazing songs into account – but there is music, so much music to listen to, which truth be Continue Reading
Movie review: God Help the Girl
It was Maria von Trapp herself, the woman whose life story inspired the musical The Sound of Music and who is featured in passing as a sweet visual joke in God Help the Girl, who remarked that “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart Continue Reading
“Do you want to build a meth lab?” Frozen meets Breaking Bad
* IF YOU HAVEN’T BINGE-WATCHED BREAKING BAD YET THEN … SPOILERS! * Awww Breaking Bad finally has a theme song people and it’s wonderful! It’s all thanks to Frozen, which truth be told, is not the first thing you would associate with Walter White and his ultimately corrupting plan Continue Reading
Good grief Charlie Brown you have new movie images! AND a full-length trailer!
My affection for Peanuts runs long and deep. I can’t, in all honesty, think of a time in my life when Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the whole Peanuts gang weren’t an integral part of my life. The comic strip, which next year turns 65 – I will Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Consumed” (S5, E6 review)
* BEWARE OF SPOILERS … AND ZOMBIES … AND THINGS FALLING (EVEN IF YOU MAKE GOOD TIME) * The Walking Dead has remarked more than once on the transformative effects of the zombie apocalypse, siding usually with the fact that it is NOT a Good Thing. This stands Continue Reading