(courtesy IMP awards) ——————– SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!!!!!!! ——————– AppleTV+ is showing a brilliant inclination for commissioning thoughtful, epic sci-fi television (Foundation, Silo, Invasion), and Constellation, created and written by Peter Harness, based on concept by Sean Jablonski, is yet another feather in an already considerable cap. This slow-burning story of 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!
Book review: The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Growing isn’t easy at the best of times, but it becomes even darkly and challengingly problematic when the person doing the growing up is doing in the very late 1970s in northeast England at a time when the Yorkshire Ripper is terrorising a fearful populace with Continue Reading
“Overflowing with handcrafted charm…” … Robot Dreams drops a beautiful first full trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTDog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day after seeing a commercial on television, he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, Continue Reading
Movie review: Damage
(courtesy IMDb) Taglines on film posters are often quite pithy, one sentence sneak peeks into what a film has to offer, and while they often do that job briefly and intriguingly well, you’d be hard pressed, most of time to attribute any real weight to them. They are disposable marketing Continue Reading
Book review: The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
(courtesy Ultimo Press) Diving into any book comes with certain expectations – there will be a beginning and an end, a middle that connects them both in ways that are emotionally fulfilling and intellectually satisfying, and there will be characters you come to care deeply about, people (and not; this Continue Reading
Mini-mass of marvellous trailers: Renegade Nell, Boy Kills World + Damsel
(via Shutterstock) So much to see, so little time! But are we daunted? No! Well, maybe a little bit – I mean who’s got the time to see everything? None of us, really but that doesn’t mean we won’t give it a red hot go and fire up a streaming Continue Reading
Streaming review: A lot can happen in just One Day
(courtesy IMP Awards) We’re well used to romantic comedies that offer us epic love, sweeping heartstopping moments and happy-ever-after moments in abundance. If real life does intrude, it’s all but tangential and near accidental, and so, as reality swoops relentlessly and often disappointingly ordinary in its scope and effect around Continue Reading
It’s time for one last dance with Star Trek: Discovery season 5’s official trailer
(courtesy IMDb (c) Paramount+) SNAPSHOTThe final installment of [Star Trek: Discovery] sees “Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But Continue Reading
Movie review: The Mattachine Family #MGFF24
(courtesy IMP Awards) Working out what we want from life is one of the greatest challenges we’ll ever face. In theory, it all sounds delightful and empowering, a chance to really know yourself, to set your existential sails off in pursuit of things you are passionate about and to live Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #102: Pet Shop Boys, Heartaches + Golden Vessel, Tourist, Gold Fang + Justice … and Eurovision 2024 update
(via Shutterstock) Be in the moment. Be swept out of the moment. Whatever you need, and whatever you’re feeling, these five artists can deliver it, with each of their songs reaching into the very heart of what it means to be human, to be alive and to be present and Continue Reading