*SOME SPOOKY SPOILERS AHEAD* Tree changers of the world beware. Any romanticised ideas you might have about leaving the big bad city behind for a simpler, idyllic life amongst the trees and towering snowcapped mountains will soon be put to rest by Fox’s new series Wayward Pines. Based on 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!
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt meet Mad Max Fury Road … You’re welcome
Hollywood, and the entertainment industry in general, has a generally lamentable record when it comes to representing “women’s complex and interesting lives” as GrrlScientist described in a 2010 The Guardian article, in their films and TV shows. More often than not they fail The Bechdel Test, which originated with Alison Bechdel’s Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Mountain King learns a giant-sized lesson
Humanity takes a while to learn its lessons and learn them well. If history has taught us anything, and it’s quite true that those who ignore it are doomed to repeat it to their detriment, it’s that we often misunderstand the fundamental of things like power, wealth and leadership. Continue Reading
22 is the new age 80: Netflix redefines “old” in the trailer for Between
SNAPSHOT Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 22 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend Continue Reading
“In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle”: Listen to A. A. Milne read from When We Were Very Young in this rare recording
Winnie the Pooh, and by obvious extension the man who brought his remarkable adventures to life in The Hundred Acre Wood, Alan Alexander Milne or A. A. Milne, were an integral part of my childhood. For those of us who delight in reading still about the “Bear of Very Continue Reading
After Avengers: Age of Ultron, we really don’t need another hero [curated opinion piece]
Avengers: Age of Ultron is the biggest movie in the world right now and like it or not – I quite liked it though I felt I had seen it all before – Alastair Blanshard from The University of Queensland raises some interesting points in this article from The Conversation about why we love superheroes Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Iconic Star Wars moments come alive in Cut Scene exhibition
Now here’s something fantastically creative, firmly of the zeitgeist and worthy of your time and your money. Talented London-based Kirigami artist, Marc Hagan-Guirey aka Paper Dandy is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for an exhibition featuring iconic scenes from Star Wars rendered from a single piece of paper. While Continue Reading
RIP Forever: 5 wonderful things I loved about the show
I am heartbroken once again. Yes, in a pattern that repeats itself over and over when I fall headlong in love with a TV series, and not enough other people do, another TV I had come to really, really love, in contravention of all expectations (I thought I was Continue Reading
True love never dies (but you wish it would) in Burying the Ex (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The film follows Max (Anton Yelchin) and Evelyn (Ashley Greene) as their relationship takes a nose dive once they move in together. Max discovers how controlling and manipulative Evelyn is but he’s too scared to break up with her. When fate steps in and Evelyn dies in a Continue Reading
Movie review: Spy
If you were looking for a quick and easy way to describe director Paul Feig’s latest comedy blockbuster, Spy, and who doesn’t like a pithy tagline, you could do worse than calling it a reverse Get Smart. Embodying much of the spirit of Mel Brooks’ 1960s sitcom satirisation of Continue Reading