Fetch me a kangaroo in spandex! A coterie of bowls-playing grandmothers making scones. A phalanx of surfers atop waves made from pure glitter. Pyrotechnic displays that recall the burning cane fields of Broadwater, New South Wales. And a key change as big as the Australian Bight! Australia, yes Australia, 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!
“What kind of monster puts artisanal butter in the freezer?”: All the fun of the teaser trailer for Silicon Valley season 2
Hands down one of the best TV show premieres of 2014, and I would be so bold as to say the funniest, was HBO’s Silicon Valley, a by all accounts startlingly authentic depiction of life in America’s hot bed of technology development and dreams, centred on a typical startup, Pied Piper, hoping, Continue Reading
Hello Scarlett Overkill: Sandra Bullock gets her own posse of Minions (trailer + photos)
SNAPSHOT The story of Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. After accidentally killing off so many of them—from T. Rex to Napoleon—the Minions find themselves without a master to serve and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What would Disney characters look like in the grim world of The Walking Dead?
We are just days, mere days, away from eight more episodes of season 5 of The Walking Dead, a show dedicated to survival, zombie-killing and philosophical musings on the nature of humanity and whether you can return to the person you were before you did what was necessary to Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Like Sunday, Like Rain (post #1500)
SNAPSHOT Surrounded by wealth and living with abundant resources in Manhattan, 12-year-old cello prodigy and all around genius Reggie (Julian Shatkin), lives a solitary, bookish life lacking only frequently absent parents and friends. Estranged from family, having slacker boyfriend troubles, and fired from her waitressing job, sometimes musician 23-year-old Continue Reading
We are all made of water: The apocalypse continues anew with Surface Tension (New comic book series trailer)
My lord humanity you really can’t catch a break now can you? If it’s not virulent pandemics, or zombie hordes, alien invasions or ecological catastrophe, it’s something else. In the case in the new apocalyptic comic series from Titan Comics, Surface Tension which is written and drawn by rising star Jay Continue Reading
I am Mr Tickle (d) pink! Mr Men and Little Miss to get a big screen adaptation
I have always love the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters of Roger Hargreaves (now drawn by his son Adam). Created in 1971 by the British author, whose first character Mr Tickle, my personal favourite, was inspired by his son asking him what a tickle would look like – Continue Reading
Now this is music #44: Young Ejecta, Oh Wonder, Aurora, salute feat. Vanessa Elisha, Electric Wire Hustle
Life is a curiously complex thing. Euphorically up one moment, desperately down the next, and a confused hot mess in-between, it is never less than utterly unpredictable even when it feels like it’s stuck in some sort of bland sameness. These five artists, who hail from quite divergent parts Continue Reading
Chomp! Jurassic World gets a giant dinosaur-sized new trailer
Ah humanity! No matter how many “bombs” explode in our face, or how often the darker angels of our nature rise up to shake us with their fury, we somehow fail to see the great big elephant of hubris standing in the room, the one that warns us time Continue Reading
Movie review: Into the Woods
If you think postmodern tinkering with the classics is simply a 21st century internet-accelerated phenomenon, then Into the Woods, both musical and now big screen adaptation, is proof positive that the mixing of old style storytelling and modern telling-it-like-really-is moralistic sensibilities goes back a lot further than that. In Continue Reading