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Review: First episode of “Dr Who” season 2 – ‘Asylum of the Daleks’

Posted on September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 by aussiemoose

  When I first heard that the opening episode of the new Doctor Who season was going to be about his long time enemies the Daleks, my heart sank a little. It’s not that the Daleks aren’t scary, remorseless, and one of the most nightmarish baddies to emerge from a Continue Reading

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“Walking Dead” season 3 poster + news

Posted on September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 by aussiemoose

  As I have made abundantly clear in posts past, the idea of zombies in general scare the proverbial out of me, and I have, until now, with the exception of the brilliantly crafted 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later, avoided the undead like, well, the plague. Continue Reading

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“Elementary”: Holmes Sweet Holmes

Posted on September 8, 2012September 10, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Elementary is part of the crop of new Fall TV shows due to launch on US TV. Following in the footsteps of the contemporary British re-imagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular detective, and the Sherlock movies starring Robert Downey Jr Continue Reading

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It’s a “Cougar Town” TGIF y’all!

Posted on September 7, 2012September 6, 2012 by aussiemoose

  One of my favourite sitcoms is due back on TV in 2013 on US cable channel TBS and the gang behind the show are going all out across the web to heighten the anticipation. Their Facebook page is particular is going great guns and is filled great photos and Continue Reading

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Can’t wait! To see these movies

Posted on September 6, 2012September 6, 2012 by aussiemoose

LOOPER     Looper, written and directed by Ryan Johnson and starring acting wunderkind Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as younger and older versions respectively of Joseph Simmons, a time-travelling mafia contract killer from 2044 who finds out that next his target is … himself,  looks like the sort of Continue Reading

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Movie news: “Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters”

Posted on September 5, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It will come as no surprise to many that we no longer want our fairytales served up with a   large side order of twee. Gone are the days, for the most part, of movie makers bringing out fairytales movies, whether live action or cartoon, that don’t feature some Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Moonrise Kingdom”

Posted on September 5, 2012February 13, 2018 by aussiemoose

  The need to belong is common to all people regardless of race, creed, colour or any of the other thousand and one permutations of humanity. And Wes Anderson, the delightfully idiosyncratic auteur who brought us Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, a keen observer of the human condition and student Continue Reading

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Movie review: “The Sapphires”

Posted on September 3, 2012September 4, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It is rare to find a movie that gloriously and unapologetically seeks to engender a feel good vibe so infectious you are tempted to dance, or at the very least sashay, like a member of a 60s female soul group, out of the theatre at the end of it, Continue Reading

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Dr Who season 7 and the curious case of the prequels

Posted on September 1, 2012September 4, 2012 by aussiemoose

  I am all for teaser campaigns. Especially for my favourite TV shows. They build interest in the upcoming season, are a treat for long time fans wanting a window into what lies ahead for their favourite character/s, and can be a whole world of fun in themselves. If they’re Continue Reading

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    (courtesy First Showing (c) AppleTV+) If you’re of a certain age, you will be well acquainted with how good Peanuts specials are for your heart, your mental health and your general sense of glowing wellbeing. Three of the most well-known of the 52 animated specials in existence are A Charlie Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTMeet BJ (Anderson .Paak), a fish-out-of-water musician on the search for stardom carrying a bruised heart from a complicated past relationship. On his journey to revive his music career, BJ lands a gig with a house band in Seoul for a K-Pop competition show. While working on Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) As ideals go, perfection has to be one of the most laughably impossible. Granted all ideals dance somewhere in the land of blue sky implausibility, cosily inspiring ideas that would be wondrously good if they made it from hope to actuality but which never quite manage Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Sketch
    (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that you never realise about grief, until you are mired irrevocably in its desperately sad and regretful depths, is how powerless it makes you feel. On one level, of course, you know, especially when someone you love dies, that you can’t bring them Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
    (courtesy Penguin Random House) Can you ever get away from yourself? Not really, but and this is crucial in the context of Steven Rowley’s delightful novella, The Dogs of Venice, you can get away from the place where you experienced trauma and that can make the world of difference, So, Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Is it possible, we muse wonderingly at the start of this review, to reinvent a trope? Or, at the very least, and trust us, it’s a very good “very least” indeed, to put a shiny new sheen on it and present it to an enraptured Continue Reading
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    (courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) Think tightrope walkers have a challenge on their hands? Surely a greater feat is balancing comedy and drama in a show like How to Get to Heaven From Belfast – the title alone is redolent with quirky humour and melancholic longing, all in perfect unison Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Harpers Collins Publishers Australia) There is something so heartwarming about looking at life in a whimsical way. In an age when everything is so full on and so serious and unrelentingly intense – this can be both a good and a bad thing but either way, it exacts a Continue Reading
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