It goes without saying that if you want to teach a lesson well, it must involve a piranha. It’s an educational truth so self-evident that it’s a wonder every learning institution in the world isn’t equipped with a school of the cannibalistically-feisty Amazonian creatures. Sesame Street, now in its 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!
Outlander: “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” (S1, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD AND ALL MANNER OF FAERIE FOLK* Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us. Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches? Peasant 1: Burn them. Sir Bedevere: And what do you Continue Reading
Didn’t see that coming: Netflix’s Grace and Frankie deal with big changes in their lives
SNAPSHOT In Grace and Frankie, Jane Fonda (Grace) and Lily Tomlin (Frankie) star as two women whose lives are suddenly turned upside down when their husbands reveal they are gay and leave them for each other. Both sparring partners and partners-in-crime, they form an unlikely bond to face an Continue Reading
Movie review: Appropriate Behaviour
Ah, the gently insidious weight of doing what’s expected. Writer and director Desiree Akhavan convincingly captures the pressure in British film Appropriate Behaviour that many people, but particularly those from migrant families, feel as they struggle to simultaneously fit within both the traditional cultures of their parents and that of their adopted home. Akhavan, herself Continue Reading
Love sweet droid love: R2-D2 searches for a soulmate in short film Artoo in Love
SNAPSHOT Artoo In Love is a short film that follows our intrepid, droid-hero R2-D2 as he tries to find love in this galaxy. Artoo is joined by an adorable cast of his droid friends, as well as some of his enemies … (synopsis via Artoo in Love) Even droids want to Continue Reading
Brick by prehistoric brick: LEGO Jurassic World Game gets a trailer
It seems that everything these days is turning to LEGO. This is not, of course, even remotely a bad thing and merely confirms what I instinctively knew to the core of my being at the age of five, that the world would be a far better place of everything Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Modern TV shows and movie get a retro ’80s VHS cover makeover
We’ve all heard the old adage “everything old is new again”, a wry commentary on the idea that everything from fashion to fads to old toys comes back around again eventually, but what about “everything new is old again”? It may not as common an axiom but in the Continue Reading
The joy and pain of letting someone in: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Up until senior year, Greg (Thomas Mann) has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl (Ronald Cyler II), and together they spend their time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers— making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg Continue Reading
Grover Bluejoy is coming (eventually) in Sesame Street’s Game of Chairs (Game of Thrones parody)
If you’ve watched any episodes of HBO’s megahit Game of Thrones, which returns to our screens on April 12, you will have noticed that becoming the king or queen of Westeros and sitting upon its imposing Iron Throne involves quite a bit of Machiavellian manoeuvring, a dragon or three, Continue Reading
Now this is music 48: Heems, Katelyn Tarver, Peach Kelli Pop, Coleman Hell, Lena Fayre
Life is a real mixed bag isn’t it? Regardless of whether you approach it from a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty position, it rarely stays in one emotional place for too long. Hence we have great ups and downs, ins and outs, steps forward and lurches back, all of it providing Continue Reading