Disa (Maria Sid) is one very disappointed woman. Disappointed by life, by the way a resolute playing by the rules – husband TICK! Kids TICK! Job TICK! Compliant acquiescing to everything expected of her TICK! – seems to be have yielded her nothing but dashed hopes and dreams. Though 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!
Blood red sky: Edvard Munch’s “Scream” comes to life in this brilliant short animated film
SNAPSHOT I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my Continue Reading
Book review: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Grief is often an all-consuming state. No matter how we try to lift ourselves out of it, it pulls us back in, unwilling to let us go from the misery, pain and agony of things lost, never to be regained. Or at least, regained in the form in which we Continue Reading
Norman Reedus fights for breath in Robert Kirkman’s Air (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Air follows two caretakers of a facility specifically set-up to deal with the fact Earth atmosphere is all but destroyed. They’re humanity’s last hope as they release cryogenically frozen personnel from the underground bunker to test out what they believe to be the last habitable place on the Continue Reading
Crossovers! When TV show worlds collide
You can never get too much of a good thing right? Of course not! It’s an ethos that has fuelled many an all-night party, a weekend-long TV watching binge on Netflix and crossover episodes, where “two or more TV shows [are revealed] to exist in the same fictional universe” (according Continue Reading
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Oh yes it is, it really, really is!
If you’re anything like me, and you may or may not regret wondering if you are, then it’s probably never have occurred to you to mash up Max Max Fury Road, the latest critically and commercially successful entry in the venerable apocalyptic franchise, and 1963’s road trip comedies to Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hunger Pains” (S5, E2 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND SKITTERS … AND MORE SKITTERS AHEAD * So there goes dinner … Starving and insanely short on good old edibles after an unexpected suicide Skitter attack, one of many waves of seemingly feral Skitter attacks to plague the 2nd Mass. Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pancakes shaped as pop culture characters? Yum yum chomp!
I never fail to be amazed at the way true artists like TigerTomato manage to take my favourite breakfast food ever, the humble though delicious pancake – yeah sorry Sultana Bran but you’re not even in the running – and turn it into visually-delighting works of art. Because, my Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Mercy
In the best of all possible worlds, biopics should be the most personal and affecting of film genres. After all, they tell the story, either whole or in part, of some extraordinary person’s life – their highs and lows, triumphs and defeats, an exemplar of humanity writ large for us to Continue Reading
Now this is music #52: Myami, FMLYBND, Joywave, Dive In, KLOË
There’s just one thing to say with this latest selection of songs – DANCE! Seriously cast aside the woes and travails of the week, get up on the dancefloor and lose yourself in the music. That doesn’t mean though that you have to put your brain in neutral. All five of Continue Reading