SNAPSHOT Still reeling from her recent divorce, Mackenzie is ready for a fresh start. She is running things on her own for the first time and scrambling to keep the cash-strapped Little Otter from going under. She considers a buyout offer from Roger Shepard (Rodger Corser, Underbelly), the arrogant 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!
TV review: “Under the Dome” premiere episode
I am not quite sure when the realisation hit. It could have been when a cow came off second best in the bovine vs dome battle that gruesomely punctuated the arrival of the transparent, impervious to sound curved shield that descended without much warning, bar some earthquake-like shaking and Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #5: “Existence” by David Brin
The object of this series, which I am running in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s about based solely Continue Reading
A magical look at the before and after VFX of “The Great Gatsby”
Whatever your views on the merits or otherwise of Baz Luhrmann’s much-ballyhooed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic, era-defining novel The Great Gatsby – just for the record I am a fan – one thing is for sure – the man knows his way around sumptuous visuals. His lavish Continue Reading
Coming to a TV near you: 5 promising new season dramas #1 – Sleepy Hollow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Almost Human, The Blacklist, Believe
It’s that time of the year again! The current TV season is coming to a close and as the shows we know and love wrap it up for another year, some of them never to be seen again, a jostling crop of hopefuls is waiting in the wings ready Continue Reading
“Falling Skies” review: ‘Badlands’ (episode 3, season 3)
*** SPOILERS AHEAD (and possibly aliens … ya never know) *** After the big bang, All aliens! All action! All intrigue! Even a creepy baby! look of the first two season 3 episodes, “On Thin Ice” and Collateral Damage”, Falling Skies took a giant narrative chill pill for episode three Continue Reading
Time to slip … or not … “Under the Dome” (new trailer)
The apocalypse is upon us once again and this time there isn’t an alien, zombie or electricity-sucking nanite to be seen. No, this time the enemy is a transparent, practically-invisible impervious dome-shaped membrane that drops without warning, and a great deal of bloodshed and severed limbs, over the small Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “We’re the Millers”
SNAPSHOT David Burke (Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Agaton Sax by Nils-Olof Franzén
The Agaton Sax series by Nils-Olof Franzén was one of the major literary touchstones of my childhood. Yet another Scandinavian author who reeled me in hook, line and quirky sinker, Franzén crafted a protagonist in the short, round Swedish detective I grew to love, who was intelligent, resourceful and just quirky Continue Reading
Movie review: “World War Z”
On your marks … Get set … RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! That may sound like a flippant way to commence a review of one of the most terrifyingly-realistic, taut zombo-apocalyptic thrillers I have ever seen, but it is essentially the imperative that drives this relentlessly full speed ahead heart-constantly-in-mouth Continue Reading