Way back in the dim, dark days of my youth – which actually weren’t that dark actually since we did have, you know, fire and such – I spent many a happy hour playing Monopoly with my family, usually during end of year summer holidays when we’d decamp to 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!
5 things I love about The Crazy Ones
I know it isn’t fashionable to say in some quarters but I really like The Crazy Ones. Nay, LOVE it. It’s one of my favourite shows of the new fall season on US TV, full to the brim with whippet smart writing, finely tuned comic performances and a situation Continue Reading
It’s wine o’clock again! Just 2 months till Cougar Town returns to our screens
One of my favourite shows on television, the greatly underrated and woefully under-appreciated comedy gem Cougar Town is going to back on our screens soon and very soon! With an appearance by star Courtney Cox’s old Friends co-star Matthew Perry (following Cox’s stint on Perry’s now defunct sitcom Go On) and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Live Bait” (S4, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers … and an emotional catharsis …redemption … and more walkers)* “When my girls were born, that’s when I figured out what it was to be a man. You know, a real man. You protect ’em, keep ’em safe, you just try to make them stronger Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #6: Noah, Maleficent, Some Velvet Morning, Stalingrad, Charlie Countryman
It’s full speed ahead in cinema-land right now with a tsunami of amazing movies coming our way thanks to the studios’ desperate need to get as many movies out before the end of the year so they qualify for the awards season in early 2014. With all those amazing Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Night of the Doctor webisode
It’s hard to know how to react when you hear that one of the defining TV shows of your childhood/youth is being brought to life after a reasonably lengthy period out of production. Part of you sings with the angels, thrilled that you’ll be able to see characters you Continue Reading
Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman’s mo’ is the star of a Flashdance-soundtracked show
Proving once again that he is not just a ruggedly handsome face, although he is that and more, Nick Offerman has joined up with mademan.com to record a Public Service Announcement for Movember, a month long celebration of all things upper lip hirsute to raise funds in support of Continue Reading
Picture this Community fans: Season 5 photos aplenty
Much like Bigfoot, alien abductions and the idea of substantial news coverage from a commercial network that doesn’t include diet tips or reports on insurance scams, you might have begun to wonder if season 5 of Community actually existed, or would find a place in NBC’s schedule. Well wonder Continue Reading
Gather the children: What Does the Fox Say is going to be a kids book
Not content with their accidental novelty song “What Does the Fox Say?” clocking up 215 million views on YouTube, making it the biggest pop phenomenon on the planet since Psy’s über-popular “Gangnam Style”, and inspiring a host of affectionate parodies in the process such as the delightful one between Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #9: Minimalist movie posters for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, Pulp Fiction
You might have noticed that I have an inordinate fondness for people who take the accepted form of something and turn it, ever so slightly or with envelope-tearing joie de vivre, on its head. Such is the minimalist but exquisitely colourful work of Polish artist Michal Krasnopolski who I discovered Continue Reading