“Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Me neither. But there you go.” And with that pithy, funny, narrative-encapsulating line, Moone Boy, set in late 1980s Ireland and starring Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Girls, Family Tree) as said imaginary 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!
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Rudderless, While We’re Young, The Rewrite, White Bird in a Blizzard, Men Women & Children
I love the end of the year! So many wonderful, rich, intelligent dramas all throwing themselves at audiences, and of course Oscar (he of the Academy Awards) like lustful teenagers at a One Direction concert. I don’t even care that it will mean I never leave the cinema; it will Continue Reading
Thank you for being an incarcerated friend: Orange is the New Black meets The Golden Girls
There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way. But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life Continue Reading
The Big Bang Theory returns with S8! (See what happens behind the scenes)
The Big Bang Theory is back! After three humour-less Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah-Fowler (Mayim Bialik) free months, weeks and weeks where Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) weren’t staring dreamily into each other’s eyes, and nanoseconds without number without Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj Continue Reading
Movie review: Wish I Was Here
Life can be a tough thing to get right. It’s shockingly shorter than we imagined it to be, far more complex and demanding and our attempts to make the most of it come with a raft of unintended consequences which often bear little or no resemblance to the way we thought Continue Reading
Neil Patrick Harris is going to let you Choose Your Own Autobiography (book trailer)
It’s looking like quite the year for informative, creative, fun books from celebrities. Not only do we have books from Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Lena Dunham (Girls) to look forward to but now Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH himself has unveiled his own lifelong retrospective, Choose Your Continue Reading
Why LPs and books aren’t dead as a Dodo just yet
On April 19 this year, as on the third Saturday of every April since 2008, a strange thing happened outside record stores around the world. People lined up, often overnight and around the block, to buy vinyl records. Yes, vinyl records, which by the clearly incorrect reckoning of most of us had Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The adorable MacGuffin-inspired art of LA artist 100% Soft
I love the artwork of LA-based artist 100% Soft. One look at the adorable baby-like characters that populate his work and you know which immensely talented person is responsible for them. He is one of those unique artists who not only has a distinctive style that is all his Continue Reading
Now this is music: What if Shakespeare wrote pop songs?
Think about this. What if Shakespeare had miraculously appeared smack bang in the middle of the modern day pop landscape and begun composing songs for the likes of Lorde, Carly Rae Jepsen, Beyonce Knowles, Icona Pop or even Idina Menzel? Or zipped back – or forward but not as far Continue Reading
A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away: Cookie Monster stars in Star Wars parody “Star S’mores”
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away…Princess Parfaita was taken prisoner by the evil Galactic Empire and had to be saved by a group of unlikely heroes including the young Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie. One of the Continue Reading