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Backstage with the stars of TV (1)

Posted on September 30, 2012October 12, 2012 by aussiemoose

  One of the biggest revolutions of late has been the way that social media has totally transformed the way stars of any stripe interact with their fans. Avid followers of everyone from pop singers to movie stars to sports gods can now tweet or send a message via Facebook Continue Reading

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Music review: “Human Again” – Ingrid Michaelson

Posted on September 29, 2012September 28, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Love is a complicated, messy, sometimes elevating, often troubling thing. At least that’s the impression you get from Ingrid Michaelson whose new album, Human Again, is filled with songs that tell of love’s power to trap, beguile, empower, and hurt in equal measure. But lest you think it another Continue Reading

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Movie review: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Posted on September 27, 2012November 17, 2019 by aussiemoose

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantastical celebration of the interconnectedness of all things. But while that fact is acknowledged almost from the first frame in this magical movie from first time director, Benh Zeitlin, who also wrote the screenplay with Lucy Alibar (adapted from her play Juicy and Continue Reading

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“Primeval” heads to Canada

Posted on September 26, 2012September 26, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Primeval is one of those clever British shows that imagines a modern world where portals or “temporal anomalies” open randomly through which all manner of creatures, ancient, and futuristic can come wandering through and create havoc. And create havoc they do, their unchecked rampaging only stopped by the fearless Continue Reading

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“Clone” and the marriage of TV and comics

Posted on September 26, 2012October 3, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It’s hardly a secret that AMC’s breakout hit of the decade, The Walking Dead, is based on a monthly comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman, and artist Tony Moore, which was launched in 2003. What may not be as well known, and something I hadn’t really thought Continue Reading

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“Modern Family” and “Homeland” dominate Emmys 2012

Posted on September 25, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Well the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, held Sunday US time at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles have been and gone and left a lot of people, including me, scratching their heads. It’s not an unusual reaction to the Emmys, indeed any awards show, who sometimes award the right Continue Reading

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“The Hobbit” trailer now comes with five endings!

Posted on September 24, 2012 by aussiemoose

  News is coming thick and fast on Peter Jackson’s epic imagining of Tolkien’s 300 or so page novel, The Hobbit, the synopsis of which the official site beautifully summarises thus: “The Hobbit follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the Continue Reading

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My unexpected love affair with “Pop Asia”

Posted on September 23, 2012October 2, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It all started one otherwise uneventful Sunday morning a few weeks ago. Wanting something to watch after Insiders (a national political program on Australia’s government-funded ABC network that features a moderator and three journalist discussing the week in federal politics) had run its course, and I was waiting for Continue Reading

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“Community”, “New Girl” and “30 Rock” all counting down to new seasons …

Posted on September 21, 2012September 25, 2012 by aussiemoose

  The US Fall TV Season is upon us, inspiring delight – hooray new shows and episodes of established shows we adore! – and panic – I am still watching the last season of more shows than I can count … sorry Glee! – but it is here nonetheless, and Continue Reading

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Can’t wait! To see these movies 2

Posted on September 20, 2012 by aussiemoose

LIFE OF PI     Movies based on books are always fraught. They come loaded with so many expectations about whether they will match the tone and feel of the book – which is unfair since books and movies are two wholly different storytelling mediums and hence a movie must Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Continue Reading
  • Book review: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes
    (courtesy Harper Collins Booksellers Australia) There’s always been a lot to like about the gloriously flawed but found family-prioritising protagonists at the heart of the Chilling Effect series of playfully intense novels by Valerie Valdes but chief among them must surely be the fact the fact that here are saviours-of-the-day Continue Reading
  • A meet-cute snippet of Elemental … and some fun international character posters too
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. [Elemental] features the voice talents of Leah Lewis as Ember; Mamoudou Athie as Wade; Continue Reading
  • New dinosaurs. New habitats. New season. Thoughts on Prehistoric Planet S2
    (courtesy IMP awards) Dinosaurs, and indeed any kind of prehistoric life, have long held a fascination for many people including this reviewer who, like many kids his age, loved playing ancient animal games with toys of T-rex, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Reading about the latest discoveries and absorbing how weirdly wonderful Continue Reading
  • Loved ones, addiction and the struggle to Stay Awake
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTIn the debut feature, STAY AWAKE, by writer-director Jamie Sisley, brothers Ethan (Wyatt Oleff) and Derek (Fin Argus) try their best to navigate the pressures of teenage life while tending to their mother’s (Chrissy Metz) debilitating prescription drug addiction. Based on the filmmaker’s adolescence in small-town America, Stay Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) There are those books that you read that are beautifully written, lovely and sweet, full of great characters and a pleasingly wrought plot that leave nary a mark upon you emotionally; and then there are novels like The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer which Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: The Day After Tomorrow
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It turns out that the old adage that you get different things out of a film depending on in which stage of life you watch it is actually quite true. It makes sense since time does tend to change perspective and thoughtful consideration and even emotional response Continue Reading
  • Dance the (choreographed) night away! Barbie drops a weirdly wonderful new trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBarbie is an upcoming romantic comedy film based on the eponymous fashion doll line by Mattel and directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. It serves as the franchise’s first live-action film adaptation after a number of computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming TV films Continue Reading
  • Sitcom round-up! The Big Door Prize, (S1, E8-10) Ted Lasso (S3, E7-10), Not Dead Yet (S1, E11-13) + Schimgadoon! (Schmicago – S2, E6)
    THE BIG DOOR PRIZE (S1, E8-10) We all want our lives to mean something. Go on, admit it, of course you do; no one wants to just bumble through life and do the barely noticed minimum but everything from life circumstances over which we have no control to a necessary Continue Reading
  • Comic strip review: MUTT’s Walking Home by Patrick McDonnell
    (courtesy Andrews McMeel Books) One of the reasons you read a well-written and beautifully drawn comic strip is to spend time with characters you love. Sure, it helps if they look appealing and they’re funny and the world they inhabit is one you wouldn’t mind being a part of too, Continue Reading
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