October 9, 2013 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

New sci-fi shows incoming! Extant and Red landing soon (ish)

Posted on October 9, 2013October 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

Time to blast off into space, or come hurtling back down to earth, or both, depending on your sci-fi tastes. Steven Spielberg, who knows a thing or two about crafting a compelling tale, especially sci-fi ones (Minority Report, Falling Skies) is bringing the 13 part thriller Extant to CBS Continue Reading

Hot diggity dog! The Walking Dead S3 retold with puppets and much hilarity

Posted on October 9, 2013October 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

If you’re anything like me, and let’s just assume for your sake that you’re not, you likely have trouble remembering what you had for breakfast, let alone what happened in the long ago broadcast season 3 of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Well fear not! For the good folks at Continue Reading

Some thoughts on … Revolution: “There Will Be Blood” (S2, E2)

Posted on October 9, 2013October 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

I will admit, I wasn’t planning on blogging beyond the premiere episode of Revolution season 2 but there was something so compelling, so epic about “There Will Be Blood” (buckets of it apparently and not a mop to be seen) that I had to quickly thrown some observations down Continue Reading

Book review: Death to Anyone Who Reads This (A Found Novel) by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

Apocalypses are, as a rule, not exactly places of merriment and jollity. The human race has been decimated, if it survives much at all, zombies/aliens/malevolent viruses/ naturally violent phenomenon stalk the land and civilisation are we know it is toast and likely to remain so in one of those evolutionary Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #93: Mia Nicolai, Sigrid, Georgia, Molly Burch and Genesis Owusu + Eurovision 2024 update!

(via Shutterstock) Love is a messy powerful thing – sometimes it works in our favour, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, and our romantic dreams crumble into dust, it can feel like the world has fallen apart, it can feel like indescribably words, emotions so big and damaging they somehow Continue Reading

Movie review: Past Lives

(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s something achingly affecting about the relationship many of us have with the past. Whether it was a sad or happy time, and regardless of where it left us in the present, there’s a certain mourning that takes place, a melancholic nostalgia for what might have been Continue Reading

The tide is turning: First trailer drops for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

(courtesy IMP awards) SNAPSHOTHaving failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once & for all. Now Black Manta is more formidable than ever, wielding the power of the mythic Black Continue Reading

Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)

(courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading

Book review: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg

(courtesy Arthur A. Levine books) If a book has a quirky title, it’s a better than even bet than this reviewer will pick it up, hold it close and not yield it to anyone, save for the person at the bookstore (you know, because paying for things is good, not Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Astronaut Down by James Patrick and Rubine

(courtesy AFTERSHOCK) Staring down the existential barrel of oblivion as we currently are, thanks to an epidemic, climate change, AI, encroaching fascism and a thousand other malodorous life-ending ailments, we have become well used to storytelling that inhabits a future apocalyptic/dystopian storytelling landscape. Usually these stories operate as a weird Continue Reading

Alone and together: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S3, E4-7

(courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that has demarcated this season of Only Murders in the Building from the two that preceded it is how much time our beloved three investigating podcasters have spent apart. In the first three episodes this seemed like a minor but irritating misjudgement, as if the Continue Reading

Movie review: A Brighter Tomorrow (Il sol dell’avvenire)

(courtesy IMDb) It’s all too easy to fall into ruts in life. What seems like the perpetuation of something good and rewarding, the sustaining of ritual and performance which has worked for so many years, suddenly becomes a weight around your neck, or more accurately around the necks of those Continue Reading

Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier

(via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading