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Now this is music 23: Låpsley, The Golden Pony, Neneh Cherry + Four Tet, Rae Morris, Solander

Posted on February 21, 2014February 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s Friday! (Pretty sure you’ve worked that too.) And while it’s always good to let your hair down and dance up a storm, it can also be good to sit back, chill and take in lovely meandering tunes that feed the soul and ease away the stress. So this Continue Reading

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The end is nigh: Warehouse 13 unveils first trailer for fifth and final season

Posted on February 21, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Warehouse 13 is one of those rare shows that I fell in love almost from the word go. There was something about it’s distinctly postmodern mix of the supernatural, the mythological and the downright fantastical, and a cast of passionate but thoroughly whimsical characters that grabbed me minutes into Continue Reading

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Holy bloopers LEGO Batman! Hilarious LEGO movie outtakes

Posted on February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading

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Movie review: Inside Llewyn Davis

Posted on February 19, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  “Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “Inmates” (S4, E10)

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading

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Going above and beyond: New Transcendence trailer and poster

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading

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Even more Under The Skin (full trailer + poster)

Posted on February 16, 2014February 16, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, and scored by Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes fame, Under The Skin follows Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien. She’s been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers. As the official synopsis puts it: “Part road movie, Continue Reading

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Flintstones, meet the Scientifically Accurate Flintstones!

Posted on February 16, 2014February 14, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, who premiered on US TV on September 30, 1966, and loved, even at a young age, its juxtaposition of modern day concerns with stone age people. It was a clever, insightful sitcom in a cartoon, and while you knew that cavemen didn’t actually Continue Reading

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Join the monsters at Pixar’s Party Central!

Posted on February 15, 2014February 14, 2014 by aussiemoose

  If the impending wonderment and hilarity of Muppets Most Wanted wasn’t enough, we have the inordinate pleasure, and yes even more hilarity, of a new Pixar short in the form of Party Central, featuring the gang from Monsters University. Originally scheduled to screen before The Good Dinosaur before its Continue Reading

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Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones

Posted on February 15, 2014February 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading

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