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Daniel Craig struts his James Bond stuff in new suited poster for “Skyfall”

Posted on September 18, 2012September 18, 2012 by aussiemoose

  I love Daniel Craig as James Bond because he is as suave and sophisticated as we’ve come to expect this most dapper of spies to always be, but he is always also ruggedly, mischievous with a self-deprecating wit that works a treat in these rather more self aware post Continue Reading

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Music review: “The Spirit Indestructible” – Nelly Furtado

Posted on September 17, 2012 by aussiemoose

  I threw The Spirit Indestructible onto my virtual iPod turntable with the sort of enthusiasm that can only be generated by a six year wait for a follow up to 2006’s chart-smashing Loose. (Yes Mi Plan, her Spanish-langauge album, arrived somewhere in the middle of that interminable wait but Continue Reading

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“New Girl” season 2 promo

Posted on September 17, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Everyone’s favourite New Girl, Jess, is back but it’s not just any same old same old. Shaking off the temptation to simply trot more of what worked so well – once the producers got over their mid debut season quality wobble and found their groove –  the show is Continue Reading

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Is it beginning to look a lot like a Sufjan Stevens Christmas?

Posted on September 16, 2012September 16, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Sufjan Stevens, who once declared he would record an album themed for each of the fifty states of the USA before deciding it was too ambitious a goal for even an artist of his prodigious talent, may, and it’s an italicised may with more hedged bets and caveats than Continue Reading

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“Once Upon a Time” returns: first episode “Broken”

Posted on September 16, 2012September 16, 2012 by aussiemoose

  If you recall, devoted watchers of ABC’s breakout fantasy hit, Once Upon a Time ended season 1 with the surprise undoing of the curse that had transformed all the fairytale characters we know and love into denizens of our gritty every day world where, as the narration ominously intoned, Continue Reading

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Music review: “The Truth About Love” – Pink

Posted on September 14, 2012September 20, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Pink is one ballsy in-your-face rock chick with enough sass and attitude to fuel several small cities. But she’s also warm, earthy, sweet, sentimental and unflinchingly honest in a way that few artists of her calibre are. And it’s the fusion of all those qualities that make her one of Continue Reading

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Movie review: “On the Road”

Posted on September 13, 2012 by aussiemoose

  The universal question that On the Road poses almost from the first frame is this – at what point does a damaged person’s need for self preservation become a narcissism so malignant it becomes poisonous to everyone around them? It is a question worth asking especially in a world Continue Reading

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Anderson Cooper: Discusses coming out on TV

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

  I love Anderson Cooper. Not simply because he is a fine dish of a man; but also because he’s a top notch reporter with the ability to get to the heart of a story, and a versatile enough journalist that he can even host his own day time chat Continue Reading

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Fringe season 5: Teaser video

Posted on September 12, 2012September 11, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It’s been well touted that the final season of Fringe will largely take place in 2036, when the mysterious Observers, who have been present throughout the series, and share a predilection to play god, and do more than just look on benignly, are in control. Their rule is the Continue Reading

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Sonic Bliss #14: My favourite songs of the week

Posted on September 11, 2012September 12, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Ah spring … or autumn/fall if you live in the top half of planet earth … and the torrent of music that washes over during the year becomes a flood of Noah-like proportions as we head into the festive shopping season. So you can expect way more Sonic Bliss Continue Reading

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    Can one day change everything? If you’re Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood, it can and it does, with less than 24 hours in fact bringing about a messy kind of Road to Damascus moment for the titular character who finally confronts the one issue that ended up splintering her Continue Reading
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    One of the criticisms levelled at romantic comedies aka rom-coms more often than not is that they are light and ephemeral as their frothy subject matter. It’s an unfair dig in many respects since most rom-coms are simply there to transport us from the ugly, loveless everyday and into a Continue Reading
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    SNAPSHOTThe third and final season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard during the 25th century as he reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, and Deanna Troi), who are being hunted by Continue Reading
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  • Book review: Wolfsong by TJ Klune
    Being loved unconditionally and truly belonging are two of the greatest gifts anyone can ever receive. They bolster the heart, restore the soul and they are utterly alien to Oxnard Matheson, protagonist of TJ Klune’s latest masterpiece, Wolfsong. Not because he hasn’t been loved at all – he has always Continue Reading
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    I love going out to the movies. Yes, sometimes thoughtless idiots talk through the film and there’s always popcorn on the floor and there’s the effort of getting out and about BUT it’s lovely just being with other people and experiencing a film together that is so magically intoxicating. But Continue Reading
  • Book review: Sincerely, Me by Julietta Henderson
    There’s something entirely and innately satisfying about reading about someone who’s life has not even gone remotely where they want it to and who manages through sheer force of will or happy circumstance to turn things around. Maybe it’s because that so rarely happens in real life, at least to Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: The Stuff of Legend: Book 1 – The Dark by Mike Raicht & Brian Smith (illustrations by Charles Paul Wilson III)
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  • Songs, songs and more songs #81: YARLIE, Ava Max, Sgt Slick, Laura Mvula and Montaigne + new ABBA lyric videos
    Love is supposed to be always wonderful. That’s the PR anyway, and yes, it can be absolutely glorious when everything goes well as some of this post’s artists attest, but sometimes it’s a car crash in the midst of a natural disaster cratering towards an apocalypse, and we have no Continue Reading
  • UPCOMING READS: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
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