Going into space is not for the fainthearted. I am not saying that from personal experience of course since (a) I am not Neil Armstrong or any of the other 23 men who ventured to the moon during NASA’s golden age of lunar exploration, (b) Laika, a dog 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!
Scorpion: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
Scorpion is, on paper at least – and let’s face it, none of the characters, save for possibly veteran FBI special Agent Gabe Callo (Robert Patrick), would be seen dead around anything so physical and antiquated – a bundle of well-used network formula drama tropes that have been gathered together from various police Continue Reading
Movie review: The Little Death
Australian cinema is nothing if not brave and brutally frank, a reflection of a national psyche that is, by and large, willing to tackle an issue rather than leave it happily unattended. And while this narrative embracing of the elephant in the room often pays dividends, it can also result Continue Reading
Bring on the bloopers: The light side of Star Trek Into Darkness
SNAPSHOT Director J.J. Abrams’ global sensations Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness set a course for the ultimate home entertainment package in STAR TREK: THE COMPENDIUM, arriving September 9, 2014 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The set includes four Blu-ray Discs with both films in sparkling high definition Continue Reading
Undead LOLZ: The Walking Dead S4 gets the Bad-Lip Reading treatment
There isn’t much to laugh about in the deadly serious world of The Walking Dead. After all, a mysterious virus has long since turned the vast majority of the world’s population into slavering, flesh-craving undead beings, left those people who remain alive fighting day by day, inch by inch Continue Reading
Lena Dunham wants you to know she’s Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham is an impressively talented young lady. Along with creating, writing and starring in the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular HBO show Girls, about the lives of four flawed but earnest twenty something women in New York, and heading up projects via her production company such as the documentary Three Suits Continue Reading
Movie review: The Maze Runner
It would be easy to assume, given the recent deluge of movies adapted form red-hot popular YA novels,that there is a large factory hidden out the back of Hollywood in which pale and drawn authors, shackled to their typewriters (for they are far more evocative than PCs), are writing dystopian Continue Reading
Good times and bad guys: The dimly-lit world of Moonbeam City’s Dazzle Novak
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1980s, with the color palate to match, [Rob] Lowe plays Dazzle Novak, a not-so-bright undercover cop who is always in search of a good time (when in fact he should be hunting down the bad guys). Banks co-stars as Novak’s hard-ass boss, while [Kate] Mara Continue Reading
No one told you it was going to be this way: Happy 20th anniversary to everybody’s favourite Friends!
Happy 20th anniversary Friends! Yes, everyone, you are officially allowed to feel ridiculously, insanely old as you realise – rather quickly unfortunately thanks to the totally unambiguous declarative sentence that opens this anniversary tribute – that the first episode of Friends, a seminal sitcom that defined what life was life Continue Reading
Now this is music #38: The Knocks, Team Me, J Tropic, Fickle Friends, PROM
It doesn’t take much for life to get crazy busy does it? One extra project at work here, an unexpected errand there, and suddenly your calm and well-planned day goes spiralling out of control and with it your peace of mind and low blood pleasure. Which is why we’re lucky Continue Reading