Women on the 6th Floor is a movie obsessed with class, race, money and power. But wait, it’s not as grim as that sentence makes it seem. In fact, the movie is a delight focusing on the great changes that many Western societies saw take place in the early 1960s, Continue Reading
"Hugo" (movie review)
Hugo, by famed director Martin Scorsese, is first and foremost a creation of great beauty. Filmed in 3D, which is used to great effect to draw us into the magical world of 1920s Paris, and specifically the Gare Montparnasse, where an orphan Hugo (Asa Butterfield) scurries around, sight unseen fixing Continue Reading
"The Muppets" (Review)
“Wacka Wacka!”“Kermieeeee….”“Mee mee mee…” I have had Muppet voices talking in my head for over 24 hours and I couldn’t be more delighted. After much too much time apart, I have spent quality time with the delightful icons of my childhood, and it was, without exception, every bit as good Continue Reading
I want to write it big in the movies!
You write a best selling novel that sweeps the world. You are feted and adored as a creative wunderkind, speaking to your generation. The press adores you. Readers hang on your every word. Everyone is beating a path to your door. Including Hollywood. They come a-calling, and buy the rights Continue Reading
"Manhattan in Reverse" – Peter F Hamilton
Britain’s premier writer of grand epic sci-fi has returned with his first collection of short stories since 1998’s A Second Chance at Eden. Of course calling any of the stories ‘short’ isn’t entirely accurate; the first story in the collection, ‘Watching Trees Grow’ goes for almost 90 pages, and the Continue Reading
Albums covers you would rather forget
So I thought this might be a fun way to start the year! I have lots of great ideas for very cool topics, and while those percolate away, in the interim, I thought you’d enjoy checking out album covers of people with unique ideas on how to sell a record.
I love my Scandinavian pop!
It’s 1976, and along with the rest of Australia I had fallen hopelessly, irrevocably (in my case anyway) in love with Swedish superstars ABBA. I loved how they looked, how they talked (with that delightful clipped accent), and most of all, of course, I loved their crisp, bright pop melodies, Continue Reading
Flashing pretty lights! The year in review.
BROWN PAPER KITTENS TIED UP WITH STRING…To finish off a fun year, I’d like to share my favourite pop culture moments off the year. Since I go to see so many movies, concerts, musicals, and buy so many books and CDs, picking the favourites is a challenge but here, after Continue Reading
Once upon a Time
Once Upon a Time is, quite simply, brilliant. I had high hopes for this show which seemed to promise LOST-like intrigue with a postmodern take on fairytales, and it has delivered in spades. It bounces back and forth between the fairy tale characters as we know and love them, and Continue Reading
Aspirational writing: one day I will write
Like so many things that fall victim to our modern action-packed lifestyles, writing can all too easily be consigned to the wish list of life. Though I live to write, and I am practically super glued to my blogs and the novel I am working on, I have been guilty Continue Reading