This post first appeared on inclassicstyle.com Summer is not kind to TV-watchers, my friends … not kind at all. In fact, it’s downright cruel (which reminds me of a quite apropos mid tempo Bananarama song from my youth but I digress). For while others are chowing down on hotdogs 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!
A marvelous massing of TIFF movie trailers #4: Kill Your Darlings, The Double, Can a Song Save Your Life?, The F Word, August: Osage County
Thanks to the recently staged Toronto Film Festival, at which there were more than 300, count ’em people, 300 films screened, there is a lot on offer out there in Trailer Land (no, not a place but it should be right?). If I am ever graced with more money Continue Reading
Hilariously hapless in love: Stephen Merchant’s Hello Ladies (trailer)
Finding love can be a challenge at the best of times. But even more so when you’re Stuart, a single guy at the heart of HBO’s new eight part series Hello Ladies. He’s a lonely, insecure Englishman labouring under the delusion that the fantasy life he imagines himself leading Continue Reading
Now this is music #15: Julian Maverick, Glasser, Fallulah, BANKS, Swimwear
What – more wonderful tunes just a week after the last lot of luscious ear candy?! Why yes I say (well type really but there’s music to listen to; let’s not get hung up on semantics shall we?). So many tunes are tickling my ear worm that there was Continue Reading
Arrrr! Hit the high seas with Black Sails on Talk Like a Pirate Day
It’s still International Talk Like a Pirate Day in some parts of the world me hearties and so it’s still entirely fitting that I post this wonderful tribute to this most unique of days (a high holiday for adherents of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster I’m told) Continue Reading
The Day They Came: aliens invade Nigeria in science fiction short film
You know how it is. You step outside for a quick smoke on what looks like a beautifully sunny day, thinking of nothing in particular, simply happy to be outside. Then you, or in this case a character played by actor Tony Doe, hears a noise, turns around and Continue Reading
TV review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S1, pilot episode)
It is a rare thing indeed when a new sitcom comes out straight out of the box fully formed, quips ready, characters fleshed out, and a believable situation in which they actually can quip and relate without fear of laugh track hypocrisy, in place and good to go. But Continue Reading
To heebie-jeebies and beyond! Pixar’s Toy Story of Terror debuts ahead of Halloween
SNAPSHOT What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that Continue Reading
TV review: Sleepy Hollow (S1, pilot episode)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts Continue Reading
Rover Red Charlie: It’s the end of the world as dogs know it (comic)
I am a sucker for any and all animal stories. From the books that cram my bookshelf – Nop’s Trials by Donald McCaig, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Duncton Wood (and series) by William Horwood and yes even Dewey by Vicki Myron, and Marley & Me by John Grogan Continue Reading