Cole Porter knew that everyone was into love, declaring in his iconic song, “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)” … Birds do it, bees do itEven educated fleas do itLet’s do it, let’s fall in love. Someone else who knows about the universality of love and romance is PJ Continue Reading
Book review: Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
It’s a rare thing indeed for great life changes to arrive without any trauma. In fact, many times, the sense of disruption and loss can be profound and while we usually emerge out the other side, we are changed, making a return to business as usual, which no longer exists Continue Reading
Movie review: A Guide to Second Date Sex
Ryan (George MacKay) and Laura (Alexandra Roach) like each other. They really, REALLY like each other. Having only a met a week earlier in a noisy nightclub when they standing awkwardly side-by-side and, ignored by the bartender, had no real choice but to try and talk to each other. What Continue Reading
Australia Decides for #Eurovision 2020: Which of 10 songs will be the country’s official entry? + Eurovision update
Australia is, once again, going to Eurovision! To make sure we make quite a splash and make the most of our time in the Eurovision musical sun – we are in the contest until 2023 at this stage – Australia Decides has been created to select the artist who will Continue Reading
Book review: Mix Tape by Lisa Sanderson
Life is messy. We all know this deep down and yet time and again, we seek ways short and long term, consciously and subconciously to bring order where there palpably is none and where, if we’re honest, we know there can never be. And yet we keep trying, shoving down Continue Reading
Terrific trio of movie trailers: Holly Slept Over, Premature, Irresistible
Off to the cinema we go again! It’s a brilliantly mixed bad this time around with some fantastical relationship issues given a refresher, a young woman negotiating love and all its complexities and a political drama that makes a series of salient points while having fun doing it. Enjoy … Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Remembrance” and “Maps and Legends” (S1, E1 & E2)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A NICE SPOT OF RED TOO, IF YOU’RE LUCKY Twenty years is a long time. It may not always feel like it, so rapid is the passage of time, but it is long enough for one Jean-Luc Picard, late of Starfleet and now the overseer of Continue Reading
Movie review: 1917
War is by any measure one of the most evil and nightmarish of things that humanity has ever inflicted on itself. For most of us, those fortunate enough to have been spared the bloody pointlessness of armed conflict, it is a universally acknowledged truth and nothing more; it is only Continue Reading
Book review: The Last by Hanna Jameson
Where would you want to be at end of the world? With your loved ones or good friends? Favourite bar? The restaurant that serves your steaks just so? Most people, understandably would choose the first option if for no other reason than when everything is at its apocalyptically worst, you Continue Reading
Living big in a tiny house: One couple turns a WW2 rail car into a cosy magical home
In an age where houses seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and the blocks on which they sit, like an adult trying to squeeze onto a kindergartner’s seat, smaller and smaller, it’s refreshing to see a host of varied people bucking the trend. This can be for a variety Continue Reading