(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Working out who you are is a full-time, lifelong job. But it gets going in earnest when we’re teenagers when life goes from idle, childlike curiosity to something chaotically emotional and emotional with a thousand competing questions buzzing for contemplative airtime in our head. It’s a 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!
All suspects aboard: Thoughts on Death and Other Details (S1, E1-2)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Murder is a very serious thing. As is the investigation to solve it which inevitably uncovers all kinds of nefarious intent, impulsive violent action and dreadfully dark consequence. And yet, somehow, when a murder mystery finds its way to the movies, or in the case of Death Continue Reading
Book review: After the Forest by Kell Woods
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) When stories are well and truly seared into the popular consciousness, as is the case for many fairytales, it can devilishly hard, and yes, that descriptive word has been used quite deliberately, to take another run at them and give Continue Reading
Movie review: The Holdovers
(courtesy IMP Awards) You only have to be alive and in the thick of life for a very short time to realise that at any given time, our lives balance on a wafer thin ledge between bracing hope and searing reality. We obviously want to believe we will tip over Continue Reading
Book review: The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) There is something redemptive about the act of reading. That may seem like an artful overstatement to some, but the truth is, when you open a book and lose yourself in the story within, a lot of the pain and Continue Reading
Rise from the fall: Halo season two debuts action-packed full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTMaster Chief John-117 (Pablo Schreiber) leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant. In the wake of a shocking event on a desolate planet, John cannot shake the feeling that his war is about to change. John risks everything to prove Continue Reading
Movie review: Chicken Run – Dawn of the Nugget
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s not enough whimsicality in the world. To be fair, past and current events don’t really allow much time for quirky playfulness to do its thing but as you watch Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which does its share of dark and scary moments, you appreciate Continue Reading
Book review: Translation State by Ann Leckie
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) We often associate identity with what are on the surface reasonably superficial things – name, dress style, choice phrases, interests and hobbies; they all matter, of course, because they express who we are but they pale in comparison with the Continue Reading
Movie review: Good Grief
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is a perfect world that exists within our own, one where all arguments are settled with a few choice words and a hug, where lovers reunite or unite for the first time despite massive gulfs that might exist between them, and where sadness, grief and loss Continue Reading
Doctor Who specials 2023 review: “The Star Beast”, “Wild Blue Yonder”, and “The Giggle” + Christmas special “The Church on Ruby Road”
(courtesy BBC) To commemorate Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary – the show premiered on 23 November 1963 with William Hartnell in the role of the eponymous Time Lord – the BBC released three specials in late 2023. These specials, “The Star Beast”, “Wild Blue Yonder”, and “The Giggle”, not only brought Continue Reading