There are many things I enjoyed about 2013 (and some I did including losing my job: yeah, no, still don’t know where I put it! Boom! Tish!), and prime among them was Alfonso Cuarón’s mesmerising film Gravity, starring my favourite actor in the world (and in this case, orbiting above 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!
Intrigued to see: Maladies
SNAPSHOT A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, Maladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star in 1960s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with Continue Reading
Hello Sauron! Looking down at Middle Earth from space
If you watched in awe as a certain company of dwarves and one initially out of his depth Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins rode atop an impressive flock of Thorondor’s Giant Eagles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wishing you too could sit aloft these might birds and see Middle Continue Reading
Now this is music 23: Låpsley, The Golden Pony, Neneh Cherry + Four Tet, Rae Morris, Solander
It’s Friday! (Pretty sure you’ve worked that too.) And while it’s always good to let your hair down and dance up a storm, it can also be good to sit back, chill and take in lovely meandering tunes that feed the soul and ease away the stress. So this Continue Reading
The end is nigh: Warehouse 13 unveils first trailer for fifth and final season
Warehouse 13 is one of those rare shows that I fell in love almost from the word go. There was something about it’s distinctly postmodern mix of the supernatural, the mythological and the downright fantastical, and a cast of passionate but thoroughly whimsical characters that grabbed me minutes into Continue Reading
Holy bloopers LEGO Batman! Hilarious LEGO movie outtakes
I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading
Movie review: Inside Llewyn Davis
“Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Inmates” (S4, E10)
*Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading
Going above and beyond: New Transcendence trailer and poster
SNAPSHOT Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading
Even more Under The Skin (full trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, and scored by Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes fame, Under The Skin follows Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien. She’s been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers. As the official synopsis puts it: “Part road movie, Continue Reading