(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the 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!
Movie review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1
(courtesy IMP Awards) Blockbusters, at least the big, loud, sprawling modern variant that take up gigantic screen but leave little lasting impression in their wake, aren’t supposed to have any emotional impact on you. They are supposed to come in , wow you with spectacle writ large, impress with breakneck Continue Reading
Documentary review: Experience life’s extraordinary journeys with Our Planet II (narrated by David Attenborough)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Back in a far more innocent time, watching nature documentaries was simply a matter of sitting back and letting the splendour of the natural world wash over you. Not a mention was made, and honestly maybe it should have been, of the fact that humanity was trashing Continue Reading
Book review: Judas Blossom (Book 1 of The Nightingale and the Falcon) by Stephen Aryan
(courtesy Angry Robot Books) If you are history buff, you will be used to the fact that in recounting events from the near or distant past facts should take precedence over almost anything else, which is right and just and precisely what good history telling should do (this comes with Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly book review: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Preview copy provided via NetGalley; Wreck the Halls releases 3 October 2023. If you have even a passing familiarity with the deluge of festive storytelling that comes our way each and every Christmas season, you will be patently aware of the fact that redemption and Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly movie review redux: The Grinch
(courtesy IMP Awards) For a film that’s ostensibly about a person who hates Christmas with such a ferociously ill-tempered passion that he steals it away from everyone else, The Grinch wears its Christmas-loving heart very much on its tinseled sleeve. Which really makes perfect sense since at heart The Grinch, Continue Reading
Movie review: Alcarràs #SpanishFilmFestival
(courtesy IMP Awards) Having your world blown apart is never an easy thing to handle, especially when that world has been formed over decades and generations and occupies a place in your heart and family lore that is woven into the fabric of who you are so deeply, strongly and Continue Reading
Are you ready for one last lesson of Sex Education? Season 4 drops a fun teaser trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTFollowing the closure of Moordale Secondary, Otis and Eric now face a new frontier – their first day at Cavendish Sixth Form College. Otis is nervous about setting up his new clinic, whilst Eric is praying they won’t be losers again. But Cavendish is a culture Continue Reading
The chaos and humanity of High Desert: Thoughts on the AppleTV+ series
(courtesy AppleTV+ via IMDb) Streaming platforms of late have developed a rather severe case of BroadcastTV-itis, a terrible disease that compels those who commission programs to cancel them after one season, or sometimes not even that, if they don’t attract 100 million eyeballs in the first ten minutes or so. Continue Reading
Book review: The Balloon Hunter (A found novel) by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor
(courtesy hughhowey.com) There are a great many horrible things about being caught in an apocalypse – any kind; take your pick – zombie, aline, viral, political – but what really strikes you as you watch or read stories about the end of the world is how lonely it must be. Continue Reading