* Duck! Beamers above you and spoilers ahead of you if you dare* There was a lot of gazing at the moon in this week’s episode of Falling Skies, and in marked contrast to the title which seemed to promise the sort of wholesale death and destruction we’ve become accustomed 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!
Daleks are Danish: Doctor Who S8 trailer gets some LEGO lovin’
The long wait – unless you ARE a Time Lord in which case you have already zipped forward, watched the entire season and posted reviews on all relevant sites (and possibly saved the world several times over) – for season 8 of Doctor Who is almost over! In just Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 songs I discovered while travelling in USA in 1989
1989 was a big year in many ways. Emperor Hirohito died, the USSR left Afghanistan while the Polish Communist regime began talks with the dissident Solidarity organisation, Hungary dismantled 240km of barbed wire along its Iron Curtain border with Austria, President P. W. Both of South Africa met with Continue Reading
Checking in with The Strain: “Runaways” (S1, E5 review)
I will be the first to admit, and here I paraphrase Winnie the Pooh (yes Winnie the Pooh) rather loosely, that I am a horror-watching bear of little courage. While I have acclimated to the zombies of The Walking Dead, and even the frenetically-fast undead of Helix do not Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Two Night Stand
SNAPSHOT A no-strings-attached, online hook-up turns into a morning-after disaster for twenty-something New Yorkers Megan (Analeigh Tipton of Crazy Stupid Love) and Alec (Miles Teller of The Spectacular Now and Whiplash). When a paralyzing blizzard hits the city trapping them in Alec’s cramped Brooklyn apartment, they are forced to Continue Reading
The perils of binge-watching TV: EW brings you a timely PSA
We’ve all seen it happen. Successful friends and contented family members, maybe even ourselves, reduced to unhygienic, mindless, jibber-jabbering shadows of our former TV viewing selves by improper binge watching of TV shows. There’s nothing wrong with binge watching per se of course – everyone is doing it. But as a host Continue Reading
First impressions: Outlander (“Sassenach”, S1, E1)
I believe it was that great pop sage Huey Lewis who once marvelled in song at the curious, saddening, maddening, life-saving “Power of Love”. But I doubt even he could have predicted that love, powerful though it might be, could span centuries, fuel two lifetimes lived simultaneously by one Continue Reading
#CommunityLivesOn: Season 6 teaser trailer
#CommunityLivesOn That’s the inspirational hashtag being used by the Plucky Sitcom That Could’s new home at Yahoo Screen, who stepped in to keep the show alive after NBC cancelled it at the end of it’s fifth season and other would-be saviours/suitors like Hulu passed on taking the show onto their Continue Reading
Movie review: Begin Again
Begin Again, the latest ode to music’s power to change lives from the director of Once, John Carney, is a pleasingly deceptive movie. Taken on surface value alone, it is a sweet and charming story – in the world of the movie musical these are not pejoratives but rather badges of honour, Continue Reading
Jump out of the TARDIS! Doctor Who gets animated
You may have thought watching Tom Baker or David Tennant or Matt Smith in action as the 4th, 10th and 11th Doctors respectively that Doctor Who was already plenty animated enough. And while it’s true that fighting the Cybermen, the Daleks, The Silence and the Weeping Angels is a fairly active pursuit, talented Continue Reading