(courtesy Penguin Random House) If you’re going to make a fantastical world feel somewhat believable and authentic, and yes, fantasy needs to feel lived-in and humanly possible in some respects for the conceit to really stick its landing with readers, then you need three key things – taut, compelling and 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!
Higher. Further. Faster. Together. The Marvels has a new trailer and poster
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTCarol Danvers (Brie Larson) aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When she discovers an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers Continue Reading
Boldly going in narratively different directions: Star Trek – Strange New Worlds S2, E 6 (“Lost in Translation”) and E7 (“Those Old Scientists”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the thing I have always loved about Star Trek is its capacity for endlessly diverse and vibrantly creative storytelling. Much like the people and worlds that populate it, the franchise is possessed of the ability to be a searing drama in one episode, indicting a Continue Reading
Movie review: The Land of Short Sentences (meteri sekundet)
(courtesy IMDb) Marie (Sofie Torp) and Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) are in love. Really, really, all-in, in love, the beating of Danish film Meter i sekundet (The Land of Short Sentences). He’s an up-and-coming poet, big on the Copenhagen artistic scene, and she’s a bon vivant city dweller and writer who Continue Reading
Book review: All Wrapped Up by Ally Bunbury
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Christmas tales are, by and large, all about transformation and redemption. At what is styled at the most wonderful time of the year, everything is supposed to be possible and that includes giving a festive glow-up to lives that have languished and sorrowed in the other 11 Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly review redux: Dare to fall in love with Dash & Lily
If you are one of a more romantic persuasion than most, then you will find a great deal to like about a show that combines romantic comedy and Christmas, two genres that together account for much of the swoon-worthy, sigh-worthy, rose-coloured glass wearing wonder that makes the escapist part of Continue Reading
Weekend character poster pop art: The multi-coloured fun and meaning of Barbie
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBarbie is a … romantic comedy film based on the eponymous fashion doll line by Mattel and directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. It serves as the franchise’s first live-action film adaptation after a number of computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming TV films Continue Reading
Book review: The Fancies by Kim Lock
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) A lot of people may feel like they don’t have a narrative bone in their body but the truth is, to one degree or another, we are all storytellers. Not necessarily out loud, although the creative types among most definitely are, but within, with the Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Aporia, Problemista Jules, Love at First Sight and Migration
(via Shutterstock) Cinema is back baby! Fresh from attending a mid-week preview of screening of Barbie which was packed full of men and women in shockingly fabulous shades of luminescent pink, and hearing tales of subsequent sold-out nights of Barbie and Oppenheimer – released on the same day in a Continue Reading
Movie review: Barbie
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s a strangely superficial idea floating in the collective thinkosphere that if something is colourful and confected and fun, it can’t possibly having any weight to it – thematic, emotional or otherwise. And while sure that’s true with some deliberately light and bright things, the collective catch-all Continue Reading