*Yes there are spoilers … and walkers … and bloodbaths and mayhem* And so the end has come – well the mid-season end anyway with no new season 4 episodes till February 2014 – giving us two wholly different but emphatic answers to the great thematic question of this 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!
Poster me this #5: Muppets Most Wanted, Wolf of Wall Street, Paddington, The Invisible Woman,The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ah the end of the year. So many movies, so little time (yes even with holidays at our disposal, there seems to be more cinematic temptations on offer than there are hours available to spend sitting in darkened theatres, popcorn in hand)! Working out just what to watch is Continue Reading
ABBA’s Ring Ring Deluxe Edition (history of the album + review)
After over 40 years in the public spotlight, it is easy enough to assume that ABBA were always ABBA, four talented Swedes who somehow emerged from the womb as a joint entity, their fates already intertwined, their birthright already sealed as the creators and purveyors of some of the Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art 11: The relentlessly cheerful art of James Hance
I love those random moments in life when you decide to do one thing instead of the other – for the record I was supposed to starting the next module of my online Photoshop course and chose to graze down my Facebook timeline instead; best procrastinating ever! – and Continue Reading
Play God. Pay the price: the new extended Helix trailer
Helix, the latest show from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), is increasingly looking like another chillingly salutary lesson in what happens when humanity gets delusions of grandeur and overextends itself, with unforeseen devastating consequences the nightmarish result. What starts out a routine operation to a remote privately-run arctic research facility Continue Reading
My 5 favourite Pixar short films
Pixar, which began life as the Graphics Group, part of LucasFilm, back in 1979, producing high end computer imaging hardware, and was once owned by Steve Jobs until sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion, is generally regarded as the preeminent purveyor of modern computer animation. Films like Toy Continue Reading
A multiplicity of trailers for Orphan Black season 2 (2014)
SEASON 2 SNAPSHOT Season two of the series hits the ground running with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day, Parks and Recreation) in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler, Carrie). Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone, Rachel (Maslany), dividing and imperiling all Continue Reading
Girls (and guys) just wanna have a watch of the Girls season 3 trailer
They’re back! And as blissfully unaware, emotionally screwed up and hilarious as ever. Yes, Hannah (Lena Dunham, who is also the creator and executive producer of the show), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet) are back for a third serving of twenty-something angst and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Dead Weight” (S4, E7 review)
*DIRTY, NASTY, LEADER-CULLING SPOILERS AHEAD* If you, like me, bought last episode’s version of the Governor (David Morrissey), all boxed up in his shiny, new family man guise, complete with all new added tenderness and endless kindness or your money back, you may want to ask for a refund Continue Reading
Birthday movie review: Filth
Irvine Welsh, the immeasurably talented author of the 1998 book on which Filth, the story of corrupt Scott copper Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) who is rapidly lose his already tenuous hold on reality, is based, has quite accurately described this much-delayed movie adaptation as “an ultra-dark, head-fucking film.” It Continue Reading