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Let It Go, Frozen Pirate Fairy: 2 impressive Disney musical moments

Posted on March 23, 2014March 20, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Frozen, one of the best films Disney has released in years and rightly regarded as an instant animation classic, is everywhere it seems, much like the ice that Elsa (Idena Menzel aka Adele Dazeem), the Snow Queen keeps throwing around throughout the beautiful film. “Let It Go”, the standout Continue Reading

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Chases and cheeses: Cartoon Network revives The Tom and Jerry Show (and more!)

Posted on March 23, 2014March 20, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT “Each episode will feature Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse plotting against each other — with Tom’s determination matched only by Jerry’s own cleverness in evading capture. But this time the cartoon mayhem will not be limited to only Tom and Jerry’s traditional suburban setting. In The Continue Reading

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Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Tammy, The Signal, The Giver, Joe, Unbroken + a short film

Posted on March 22, 2014March 22, 2014 by aussiemoose

  You look exhausted. Why don’t you sit back a spell, grab some popcorn and check out these trailers for five movies, and one beautiful short, that will make you laugh, think, feel and come alive again in the way that only good cinema come. It’s a mixed bag true Continue Reading

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Weekend Pop Art: The quirky Disney art of “Nothing’s Impossible!”

Posted on March 22, 2014March 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  A lot of amazing pop culture goodness is available at the annual SXSW gathering in Austin, Texas with a plethora of movies, bands, parties and interactive sessions to take in. Out of the many reports flooding out of this year’s just-concluded event, a post on Mashable about an exhibition Continue Reading

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Now this is music 25: Cathedrals, Glass Animals, Great Good Fine OK, Young & Sick, Fujiya & Miyagi

Posted on March 21, 2014March 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Ah, the thrill of the new! Not everyone craves it admittedly but for those of us who do, it is the elixir of youth, the magical ingredient that infuses the mundane, the banal and the downright ennui’d with all the fun and sparkle of the circus. Well, perhaps that Continue Reading

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Movie review: Le temps de l’aventure (Just a Sigh) #affff2014

Posted on March 21, 2014March 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Actress Alix Aubane (Emmannuelle Devos) is a woman adrift in Jérôme Bonnell’s slice-of-life drama Le temps de l’aventure (Just a Sigh). Dashing into Paris by train to attend an audition from Calais where she is performing in what could best be described as an extremely off-Broadway play, she looks to have Continue Reading

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FUNx3: Peanuts makes a movie, The Muppets go to work and The Simpsons go LEGO

Posted on March 19, 2014November 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I have loved Peanuts for a very long time. I can say without any hesitation whatsoever that it is my favourite comic strip of all time -this is in a world where Calvin and Hobbes, Get Fuzzy and  a host of other comics have also captured my heart and Continue Reading

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Stories in small boxes #1: The comic strip Get Fuzzy

Posted on March 19, 2014May 23, 2014 by aussiemoose

  The world is, by and large, divided into dog lovers and cat lovers, and by mutual unspoken agreement, never the twain shall meet. But what if you were one of those people who straddles this often hostile divide – between the people, not the animals; if you’re a dog, Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “The Grove” (S4, E14 review)

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

  * ALL THE DEVASTATING SPOILERS IN THE WORLD AHEAD*   The post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead just got a whole lot darker in “The Grove”. You may wonder how a nightmarish existence blighted by the loss of loved ones, deprivations without number, and the ever present threat of dismemberment Continue Reading

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Music review: “Wonderland” by ceo

Posted on March 18, 2014March 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  If there is one thing that good people of Scandinavia have mastered to an almost elemental degree, it’s the ability to mix the dark and the light, ecstasy and misery in one seamless, reality-embracing package. In the case of ceo, the moniker used by Eric Burglund, one time member Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) When you’re diving into a festive rom-com read, you hope and pray that you’ll be served up lashings of magical romance and renewal and healing in bountiful measure. That’s precise you get in the magnificently heartwarming joy and wonder that is Christmas is All Around by Martha Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly retro movie review: Christmas in July
    A lot can happen in just one day! Just ask Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), the protagonist of the 1940 Preston Sturges film, Christmas in July, who’s a grunt office worker from a working class neighbourhood of New York City who heads off to his menial day job in an office Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Who doesn’t adore a good love story? Even better, one set at Christmas when everything is at a peak of wonderfulness, magic is in the air and anything and everything seems possible (bar finding a parking spot at the locla mall but then, that’s a whole other Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Most superhero movies, if you look beyond the bangs and the booms and the epic struggles for curdely painted yet titanic struggles between god and evil, are about connection. Friendship, camaraderies, even family figure strongly, even with figures like Batman or Iron Man who might otehrwise be Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #126: Sally Shapiro, Parcels, Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams, Juno Mamba & edapollo + Tiësto/Odd Mob & Goodboys
    (via Shutterstock) Making music is, like a lot of creative endeavours, driven by individual talent and imagination. But often where the magic really happens is when likeminded, talented souls come together and in this case at least, literally make sweet music together. It’s a thrill to see and a joy Continue Reading
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  • Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti book #2) by Malka Older
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading
  • Star Trek: Strange Worlds review: “Hegemony, Part II” and “Wedding Bell Blues” (S3, E1-2)
    (courtesy IMP awards) One of the things, of many, which I have loved about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) from the very start is its embrace of genre-hopping, a willingness to be darkly serious one week and goofily quirky the next. The Original Series (TOS) and Next Generation (NG), Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) All of us, to some extent or another, come to appreciate through the course of our lives just how the present owes to the past. It’s not simply that one leads to the other though that is very much a part of what takes place Continue Reading
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