The inspiration to this anthology appears to be the author inserting himself into his favourite films such as: "Dirty Dancing", "The Exorcist", "The Bodyguard" and "The Sound of Music". Film and television series references are liberally scattered throughout the text.

Cho's offerings are frequently short and punchy, running for only two or three pages, making the anthology easy to read if you're time-poor. His observations can be quite amusing, and this seems to be more his style in a collection of "Dinner with" writings. "Dinner With My Brother" seems to be a set up for a joke, while "Dinner With Auntie Ling and Uncle Wang" with Auntie Ling's observation that when she wants escapism she watches Star Trek films and when she wants reality she watches National Lampoon films, was, in my opinion, one of the best pieces of humour in the piece. By comparison, Cock Rock - at over thirty pages the longest piece of writing in the collection - seemed to be nothing more than a young man's self-indulgent sexual fantasy.

While all writers draw their inspiration from somewhere, I was disturbed that Cho drew so heavily on well known movies as points of reference in his writing. Why couldn't he draw more on his own imagination? The blur between apparent fact and fiction left me feeling disoriented; I was happy to be entertained, but as the reader, had I become the butt of the joke?

Tom Cho, who was on the cover of Polare 72, is a widely published writer whose most recent work is Look Who's Morphing, part of which was published in Polare 72. Tom is an F.T.M. activist based in Melbourne. Edwina Harvey is a Sydney-based writer and editor who edits Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and whose first children's book (The Whale's Tale) was published in October 2009.

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