SNAPSHOT Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa 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!
It’s better up there … new thrilling extended “Elysium” trailer hits orbit
SNAPSHOT In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration Continue Reading
On your marks … Brad Pitt races from the zombies in new clip from “World War Z”
SNAPSHOT “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade Continue Reading
Music review: “Ice on the Dune” – Empire of the Sun
Oh the glorious sounds of shiny, happy, synth-washed musical excess. Sounding like the aural equivalent of a deep dive into a candy shop full of bright stripy candy canes, sugar0dusted jubes, and luminously colourful boiled lollies, Empire of the Sun’s Ice on the Dune summons the kind of joyful Continue Reading
TV review: Season 3 premiere of “Falling Skies” – ‘On Thin Ice’/’Collateral Damage’
* Spoilers ahead * “That’s President Tom Mason to you young man!” To be fear that is probably the last thing you will ever hear a very self-effacing Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) ever say, but the fact remains that in the seven, highly eventful months since last we saw Continue Reading
Zoom away with the “Man of Steel”
I will be honest. I have never been a massive fan of Superman. To be fair, I have not exactly been a card-carrying flag-waving (should that be cape-waving?) member of the Superhero Fanclub. As a child I read British comics such as Cheeky, Buster, and Whizzer and Chips instead Continue Reading
On the up and up: “300 – Rise of an Empire” (poster + trailer)
SYNOPSIS Based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300 this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) attempts to unite all of Greece by leading Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The East”
SNAPSHOT A covert female operative infiltrates an anarchist faction that stages clandestine attacks on major corporations, and finds her mission compromised when she falls for the group’s charismatic leader in this tense and topical thriller from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij — the creative duo behind the indie hit Continue Reading
Movie review: “Prince Avalanche” (#SydFilmFest)
Alvin (Paul Rudd) is a man of a very firm ideas. Silence is good for you. Learning languages, particularly German, is vital (especially if you want to converse easily with “the natives”). And taking an entire summer out to manually paint bright yellow lines on remote roads that twist Continue Reading
Miranda Hart as Doctor Who? Such fun!
No sooner had Matt Smith announced his intention to leave the role of Doctor Who after this year’s 50th Anniversary special, which airs in November and also features his predecessor as the lone remaining time lord, David Tennant, that speculation about who would replace him zoomed straight into hyperdrive. Continue Reading