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Can you go back? Re-watching “CHiPs” (1977-1983)

Posted on July 7, 2013July 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The show was created by Rick Rosner, and starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his strait-laced partner, Officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker. With Ponch the more trouble-prone of the pair, and Jon generally the more level-headed one trying to keep Continue Reading

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Sandra Bullock feels “The Heat” in her new role

Posted on July 7, 2013July 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  With the Australian release of The Heat, her new cop buddy movie with Melissa McCarthy just days away (releases 11 July), it seems a good time to feature this wonderful interview between Sandra Bullock and Giles Hardie, Entertainment Editor at smh.com.au. Recorded while she was in Sydney on Tuesday Continue Reading

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Movie review: “The Look of Love”

Posted on July 7, 2013July 7, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Much like Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the man it profiles in a strikingly unimaginative linear fashion, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love is curiously devoid of any real emotional centre, and thus any meaningful connection with its audience. It makes sense I suppose if you acknowledge one of the central Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: “The To Do List”

Posted on July 6, 2013July 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) spent her entire high school career as an overachiever. While this has left her set for college intellectually, it means that she missed out on a lot of important “experiences” along the way. As a solution, she comes up with a “to-do list” of Continue Reading

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Falling Skies review: “Search and Recover” (season 3, episode 5)

Posted on July 6, 2013July 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  “Search and Recover” confirmed everything I have ever thought about camping in the great outdoors. It’s damp and uncomfortable, you’ll probably have to build a fire, the food will be questionable (frogs anyone?), there’s a high likelihood you’ll injure yourself, and you might get suck with fellow campers that’ll Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Dans la Maison (In the House)”

Posted on July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There are no real winners in François Ozon’s adaptation Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row, In the House (Dans la Maison). Neither the student Claude Garcia (Ernst Umhauer), a 16 year old boy from the “wrong side of the tracks” desperately trying to acquire the family he doesn’t Continue Reading

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How deep (throated) is your love? The trailer for “Lovelace” debuts

Posted on July 4, 2013July 6, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The life of one of the most infamous women in early ’70s America gets a dramatization in this offbeat period biopic from co-directors Jeffrey Friedman and Robert Epstein. In the Florida suburbs, circa 1970, Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried) is an ordinary and unremarkable young woman who moved back Continue Reading

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A long time ago in a play far, far away: William Shakespeare’s “Star Wars”

Posted on July 4, 2013July 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Hark what tome through yonder rarefied window breaks? Why it’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, proof that there if the Bard of Avon had been alive in the 1970s that it would have been he and George Lucas bringing the adventures of Luke, Leia and Han, C3PIO and R2D2 to Continue Reading

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The science of being a Muppet

Posted on July 3, 2013July 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Have you ever wondered what The Muppets would look like as a periodic table that groups all manner of Jim Henson’s much loved creations together? No? Well neither had I. But thank the gods of insanely original imagination that artist Mike Boon (aka Mike BaBoon) had, and did something Continue Reading

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3 amazing books coming to a cinema near you* (*popcorn not included) #1

Posted on July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 by aussiemoose

  * This post first appeared on writingbar.com.au * It’s the age-old question. Well, a hundred years old at least. Which is better – the book or the movie? (You may take the lid off the can of worms now!) Much like the chicken vs. egg conundrum, this is a Continue Reading

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  • Book review: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life can often like a series of existentially testing events, punctuated by rare moments of levity and joy and wrapped in a lifetime of pain, hurt, loss and hard-won gains. That might seem bleak but for most it’s an accurate take on this thing called life, and Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #129: Georgia, BENEE, Sigrid, Ella Collier + Moyka
    (via Shutterstock) There are some months that just reward you with brilliant songs. Songs that, for a whole host of reasons, you play over and over again and which, for this beleaguered commuter reviewer at least, making walking to the train station and back not feel quite so arduous and Continue Reading
  • Don’t let the bullies win … The Twits drops its feisty trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAcademy Award-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston reimagines Roald Dahl’s iconic characters, Jim & Credenza Twit, in their first feature animated adventure. The Twits tells the story of Mr. & Mrs. Twit, the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Plunging into the latest novel by John Scalzi, and fortunate to have read a number of his books before this, I was well aware of just good a writer this man is and how well he imagines realities beyond our own, bringing them to life with Continue Reading
  • Movie review: All of You
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Knowledge, especially when it’s anchored in scientific truth, is a good and powerful thing. Though there are far too many in the world today who believe that facts are situational and malleable and able to bent at will to suit whatever purpose you have in mind, the Continue Reading
  • Book review: Foreign Country by Marija Peričić
    (courtesy Ultimo Press) One of the ways we survive the many vagaries of life is to tell ourselves stories; they’re usually self-serving storylines that reinforce the internal narrative we have long told ourselves to help us make sense of events that would otherwise defy easy categorisation. Are they always truthful? Continue Reading
  • One week for a lifetime … Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation gets the cinematic treatment
    (courtesy BRIT + CO via Yahoo) SNAPSHOTFree-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Lost Bus
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Survival against all odds stories can often descend into overwrought melodrama with uncanny ease. Maybe it’s because the creators of these larger than life tales are dealing with such hyperbolically enhanced events that it’s all too easy for them to get swept up in the adrenaline-rushed facts Continue Reading
  • Book review: Eva Reddy’s Trip of a Lifetime by Fiona McKenzie Kekic
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Life, we are told, is a series of sliding door moments. Step one way, and your life will head down one, hopefully beneficial and rewarding course; go in the other direction and your trajectory takes on another look and feel entirely. If the choices were Continue Reading
  • The building always wins … Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S5 E1-5
    (courtesy IMP Awards) As season five dawns, many shows are struggling to remain buoyant, fresh and divertingly interesting, with a significant number succumbing to the inevitable ennui that afflicts many a once vital program. But thanks to its previous insistence on sparkling writing, richly idiosyncratic characterisation and a willingness to Continue Reading
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