Happy 45th season Sesame Street! Why it seems just like yesterday that I was a 4 1/2 year old kid, freshly returned from Bangladesh in 1970, discovering the delights of television and specifically the enduring delights of a program barely a year old itself – Sesame Street. Premiering on 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!
Now this is music #34: Marz Leon, VÉRITÉ, Ibeyi, Zola Jesus, Moxie Raia
Let’s hear it for the thrill of new music! But not just any old “new” music, grabbed just because it happens to be close and within downloadable reach. Rather as we throw out the old, the tired and the has-been, purging our iPods of songs that have had their Continue Reading
When Peter met Homer: Family Guy and Simpsons join together for an hilarious crossover episode
Crossovers are curious creatures. While it is always a pleasure to see two shows you might love come together – this is not always the case of course with many people usually being a fan of one or other of the two shows; Den of Geek does a superlative Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: The water-starved dystopian drama of Young Ones
SNAPSHOT Directed by Jake Paltrow, the dystopian Young Ones takes place in a future that’s almost totally devoid of water, which makes farming a difficult task for hardened frontiersman Michael Shannon and his two children, played Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Once Fanning’s boyfriend Nicholas Hoult sets his sights Continue Reading
When trouble strikes friends stack together: The Boxtrolls enchantingly detailed new poster
SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading
(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: Hilary Thomas, author of the novelette “Knave”
This is the third in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. The publication of Hilary Thomas’s evocative novelette “Knave” Continue Reading
Yes, Zach, there is Life After Beth …
SNAPSHOT Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Continue Reading
Dan Wagstaff has it covered: The art of books on books
I know the anonymous sages have told us time and again that we should never judge a book by its cover. And while there is a certain truth to this well-invoked adage, it is also true that that is how many people, myself included, buy their books. It’s not, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if your favourite Disney princesses ended up in Orange is the New Black?
Once again the highly imaginative TV gods have smiled upon us. This time, it comes courtesy of designer Maria Bayley from Barbados, who entered and won a DesignCrowd contest which asked contestants to replace the inmates of Litchfield with famous women, and who chose to replace Piper and co. Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Mind Wars” (S4, E5 review)
*Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading