Top of the Lake Top of the Lake is a fantastic mini-series co-produced by BBC Two and UKTV in Australia and New Zealand.  It casts a host of talented actors from all three countries and pits them in a wonderfully weird and ethereal thriller. Elisabeth Moss plays Robin Griffin, a Sydney based detective who returns to her hometown in New ...

I first began reading Roger Ebert’s memoir, Life Itself, a couple of months ago.  In a sad but not entirely unexpected development, Ebert passed away from his long battle with cancer before I had a chance to finish the book.  Being a man with an impeccable and unnerving sense of timing, Ebert publicly blogged his retirement from full time film ...

Chef Eric Ripert’s French seafood cuisine at Le Bernardin is some of the most highly decorated in the world.  Most recently, it was recognized as the 19th Best Restaurant In The World, in Restaurant Magazine‘s annual awards.  It has upheld a standard of excellence for an unprecedented thirty six years since it first opened in 1976 and is a permanent ...

New York New York Cityyyy!!! We had high hopes and a million plans for New York.  It was the longest leg of our American holiday and it was our most anticipated destination.  We planned and we crammed our itinerary with so many things to do.  I certainly enjoyed my trip to America enough to want to revisit the country in ...

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How much is a video game worth? I pondered that question exactly two years ago when I speculated on the fortunes of game publishers and how they might approach the new generation of traditional consoles – Playstation4, Xbox 720, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita. It was a short and sweet piece in which I naively surmised that to ...

I spent my Saturday in the office working as an extra in a tv commercial.  It was a bit of fun.  I played the role of Interested Client #2. I expect my Screen Actor’s Guild membership will arrive in the mail in four to six weeks.

As many of you will know, New Zealand legalized gay marriage last week.  One of the most memorable moments during the discussion of the bill was Maurice Williamson’s ‘Big Gay Rainbow’ speech which I’ve posted in it’s entirety. What’s surprising is that Williamson represents a conversative party in New Zealand.  Watching this video, I’m pretty sure he’s more left-leaning and ...

Western Sydney Wanderers 0 Central Coast Mariners 2 Central Coast Mariners’ coach Graham Arnold never won a title as a player.  His club Sydney United once made the finals in the old NSL football competition but were defeated in the knockout stages.  He later went on to manage the Socceroos but could not lead them to World Cup qualification in ...

Glee – 0418 – “Shooting Star” I haven’t watched Glee since the first season of the show but I jump in for a once off viewing of the Sandy Hook school shooting inspired episode “Shooting Star“.  As a child of the Eighties I remember when television shows seldom tackled mature subject matter like drug use or gun violence and if ...