Oh, waily, waily. The Shepherd’s Crown (2015) – by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his young witch character, Tiffany Aching – was never going to be an easy read for me. I knew and counted Terry among my friends since 2008, and I watched Alzheimer’s slowly and insidiously strip 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!
Hey, who doesn’t want a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? (poster + promo)
SNAPSHOT Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Robert Jimenez’s amazing art for Firefly the Verse trading cards
Firefly, a show that only last 14 episodes before being cancelled by Fox, in one of the greatest misjudgements in TV history (and so say all of us!), continues to grow from strength to strength. With a passionate fan base known as The Browncoats behind it every step of Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Reunion” (S5, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD AND ALL THE DORNIA GEEWHIZ-NESS YOU COULD WANT * So first things first – the 2nd Mass. is still in Virginia at the rather charmingly-named 14th Stalag Virginia (OK that’s not it’s real name but even with Faux Captain Marshall gone, I think we can all agree that’s Continue Reading
“Well here’s another nice (dancing) mess you’ve gotten me into!” – Laurel and Hardy dance to Morrissey’s “Hairdresser on Fire”
I have long been a fan of classic comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, known of course as Laurel and Hardy, who were popular from the late 1920s through to the mid-1940s. Way back in the dim dark days of the mid-1970s, Australia’s national broadcaster ABC used to broadcast a Continue Reading
Movie review: Dope
Malcolm Adekanbi (Shameik Moore) is a young man who likes to defy expectations. And in writer/director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Malcolm and his geeky besties, Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) certainly have quite a few expectations to defy. For one Continue Reading
Give my regards to Broadway! The history of musical episodes on TV
Ella Fitzgerald once remarked that “the only thing better than singing is more singing” and while it’s sentiment a lot of musicians would quote naturally subscribe to, it’s not been as commonly embraced on TV which has traditionally tended to keep it storytelling reasonably song-free. But as the latest as-always Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “So Close, Yet So Far” (S1, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SCHOOL LOOKING JUST THE WAY YOU FANTASISED IT MIGHT … THE WORLD THOUGH? NOT SO MUCH.* If ever an episode title aptly captured the storyline within, it’s this one. No matter how hard Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Madison (Kim Dickens) tried to bring their Continue Reading
Life is about knowing how to take a hit: Ashby (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “Ed Wallis (Nat Wolff) and his spirited single mom (Sarah Silverman) are new in town. At school, Ed struggles to fit in. He secretly desires to make the football team although the jocks disapprove, and he connects with only one other student, brainy Eloise (Emma Roberts). Given an Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Stalag 14th Virginia” (S5, E8 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD! AND LOTS OF ALIEN-CHASING CARDIO* Well, catch me a giant cod, slap its head on Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) and call him an Espheni Overlord, Falling Skies finally found its gung-ho storytelling mojo in “Stalag 14th Virginia”! Granted it was in the third last episode ever Continue Reading