(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have had the hushed, if terrifying, pleasure of sitting through either A Quiet Place or A Quiet Place 2, you will be well aware that this is a franchise with one eye very much on the humanity of what it means to be plunged into 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!
UPCOMING READ: Cover reveal for The Relentless Legion (a novel of The Divide) by J. S. Dewes
(courtesy J. S. Dewes / Macmillan Publishers) SNAPSHOTJ. S. Dewes is back with her acclaimed and action packed Divide series (The Last Watch, The Exiled Fleet) where The Expanse meets the Night’s Watch. The Sentinels have rallied under the leadership of Adequin Rake, and Cavalon Mercer has uncovered the horrifying Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #108: Orla Gartland, Elderbrook, Foster the People, Orville Peck and Florrie + ABBA’s Summer Night City is given a bright new video clip sheen
(via Shutterstock) You need an end of the week musical pick-me-up? Of course you do, and these five artists, all of whom have married great lyrics with compulsively listenable music, are serving up songs that not only make you want to get up and dance but also feel #allthethings and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Paper Girls 5 & 6 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
(courtesy Image Comics) On the face of it, time travel seems like one of the most fun idea out there. What’s not to like about the chance to zap anywhere in history and see dinosaurs or kill Hitler or see what the Earth looks like in 1.2 billion years? But Continue Reading
Christmas preview: Hilariously merry and snarkily bright trailer lands for kidnapped Santa caper film Red One
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter Santa Claus (starring J.K. Simmons as the Big Man) – Code Name: RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas. Red Continue Reading
Life, love, longing and laughter: Thoughts on Trying (seasons 1 and 2)
(courtesy IMP awards) Season 1If you have met the love of your life, and here’s hoping that’s the case, you will be well acquainted with that delicious feeling you had way back when when they were chattering away and you knew, you just KNEW, that they were The One for Continue Reading
Book review: Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
(courtesy Macmillan Publishers) As a general rule, when you think of things that are fun, you usually don’t think of murder. But the solving of these murders? Ah, that is a another gloriously immersive thing indeed! That’s been quite clear since the early days of crime-solving models and got a Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Friendship takes flight in Wings
(courtesy YouTube (c) Gothfrog) SNAPSHOTIn this story of kindness, friendship, and the fear of being left behind, a friendship takes flight as a mouse that wants to fly and an injured bird cross paths. [This is the] final film [by Gothfrog] from the School of Visual Arts (SVA); they directed, Continue Reading
Book review: The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
(courtesy Hachette Australia) When a novel starts with four young friends accidentally steal a spaceship on a near-future earth stumbling towards environmental and societal collapse, you know you’re in for something rippling with verve and imagination. But then, when said novel throws in a big, deep mystery – just where Continue Reading
The mystery deepens: Review of Star Wars: The Acolyte E3 “Destiny” and E4 “Day”
(courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 3 “Destiny” WHAT HAPPENEDForce witches everyone! In this episode, Star Wars, which has always embraced the light and dark of its supernatural underpinnings gave grading and nuance to this duality, introducing Force practitioners, all women, who are not evil and have a strict, if spookily expressed, Continue Reading