(courtesy IMDb) It’s all too easy to fall into ruts in life. What seems like the perpetuation of something good and rewarding, the sustaining of ritual and performance which has worked for so many years, suddenly becomes a weight around your neck, or more accurately around the necks of those 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!
Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier
(via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading
Book review: Viewer Discretion Advised by Angus Stevens
(courtesy Shawline Publishing Group) For something so hyped and lauded and revered, life certainly fails to deliver much of the time on its great promise. We all enter it expecting the absolute best and on an epic scale that defies imagination and hands over the keys to all the good Continue Reading
“They’re coming to get me.” Humanity fights for its existence against future AI in final trailer for The Creator
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“This is a fight for our very existence.” Amid a future sci-fi war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect Continue Reading
Christmas preview book review: The Gingerbread House at Mistletoe Gardens by Jaimie Admans
(courtesy Rakuten Kobo) By their very nature, books set around Christmas are supposed to be extra specially magical and joyful, a sizeable step away from the grim sheen of reality, festooned with sparkling lights, awash in mulled wine and festive-coloured candy with the air filled with the expressively happy tones Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The playfully meaningful animation of Train Project
(courtesy Homework Radio (c) Luhan Wang) What a magical world is woven in the few all-too-short minutes of Train Project, the thesis film submitted by Luhan Wang for Sheridan College Bachelor of Animation 2022. Vivaciously colourful and exhibiting near-instant but fulsome worldbuilding, this gem of an animated short film gives Continue Reading
Book review: The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
(courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing) Is it ever too late to turn your life around? All too often we think it is, figuring far too much water has flowed under the bridge and we haven’t got a hope of diverting it or purifying it and that who we are now is whom Continue Reading
Sci-fi double: Star Trek – Lower Decks (S4, E1-2) and Invasion (S2, E3)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek Lower Decks season 4, episode 1: “Twovix”Lower Decks is back, ready to fill the Star Trek-sized hole left in our viewing hearts by the end of Strange New Worlds‘ diversely creative second season. And what a return it is. Pivoting on the love the show’s Continue Reading
Never underestimate a Dublin woman with a guitar: The transformative power of music comes to the fore in Flora and Son
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSingle mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #92: Scandinavian highlights – Violet Days, Nea, Grandi, Jonathan Floyd + KIDDO x Rxseboy + new Kylie single
(via Shutterstock) I have loved Scandinavian everything. Perhaps it’s because there’s likely Swedish blood flowing in these veins from away back or perhaps it’s all that ABBA I listened to in the ’70s or the Agaton Sax books I devoured from my local library (I still can’t work out how Continue Reading