Awww, ain’t love edible? Wait, what? You mean “grand” don’t you? Not if you’re a female praying mantis, no. As Love Bites, a delightful 2014 short film by Agaki Bautista, Aram Davern, Michael De Caria, and Jonathon Iskov (then students at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment Sydney), with music by Peter 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!
Michael Keaton stars in the captivating true story Spotlight
SNAPSHOT Spotlight stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, and Stanley Tucci. It tells the riveting true story of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team who uncovered a scandal that would rock the city and shock the world. For years, whispers of the Boston Archdiocese’s cover up Continue Reading
A trio of TV trailers: Colony, The Expanse, The Shannara Chronicles
Back in 1979, Rupert Holmes released a song called “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” which mused that all you really needed was a shared love of Piña Coladas, getting caught in the rain, and making love in the dunes at midnight to effectively get away from the banality of the Continue Reading
Franklin, it’s going to be a great movie! New The Peanuts Movie TV spot
SNAPSHOT In the film, Snoopy, the world’s most lovable beagle – and flying ace – embarks upon his greatest mission as he takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis The Red Baron, while his best pal, Charlie Brown, begins his own epic quest. The Peanuts Movie is being Continue Reading
Movie review: Trainwreck
If you’ve ever been a recipient of Cupid’s mostly-accurate arrow, you would be among the first to admit there is rarely anything “old” or boring above love. But the movie genre that celebrates this most delectable, transportive and logic-scrambling of life events? Ah well, that is another thing entirely. Romantic comedies Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Disney princes imagined as handsome real men by Jirka Väätäinen
You’ve got to admit that when it comes to time in the Disney sun, the Disney princesses get pretty much all the attention. But what about the poor Disney princes? Well fret no more for Finnish-born, Australia-resident Jirka Väätäinen has more than made sure than the likes of Prince Eric Continue Reading
All Hayao Miyazaki, all the time: Short film celebrates the master animator’s much-loved creations
Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) is rightly regarded as one of the master animators of the modern era. A gifted storyteller with an enthralling ability to conjure up evocative characters and the beguiling, unique worlds they inhabit, he examines and celebrates the human condition in ways few other animators, besides Pixar, Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Pope Breaks Bad” (S5, E4 review)
*THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … SPOILERS I TELL YOU! AND A BALD POPE (NO, NOT THAT ONE)* Let’s us all agree here and now shall we that Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) would make a lousy therapist? Possessed of the emotional tact of a phalanx of tanks rolling across a Continue Reading
“Let’s blow stuff up!”: Guardians of the Galaxy gets even more animated (teaser trailer)
You might be thinking, and if you are, well congratulations you for not letting those neurons sparkly idly for no reason, that Guardians of the Galaxy, one of my favourite movies from 2014, is already plenty animated enough. After all, save for a few touching, heartfelt scenes, one of Continue Reading
Love & Mercy: what Brian Wilson’s story tells us about genius and music (curated article)
by Liam Viney, The University of Queensland Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see – Arthur Schopenhauer Love & Mercy (2015), currently in cinemas, is a non-fictional recreation of two important and contrasting periods in the life of the Beach Continue Reading