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Movie review: Boyhood

Posted on August 31, 2014December 13, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Boyhood is a remarkable movie in many ways. Not the least of which is that director Richard Linklater (who also wrote the screenplay) filmed this intimate portrayal of one boy’s journey from video games and daydreaming into the early stages of manhood and college in real time over twelve years, Continue Reading

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My name is Inigo Montoya … prepare to be scared: The Princess Bride recut as a horror movie trailer

Posted on August 31, 2014August 28, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: Drawing Straws (S4, E10 review)

Posted on August 30, 2014August 31, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * SPOILERS LIE AHEAD … AND BEAMERS … UNLESS LEXI BLOWS THEM FROM THE SKY * Like humans through an Espheni Skitterisation factory … these are The Days of Our Masons … Yes, folks, after dodging the Mason family soap operatic tendencies of Falling Skies for nigh on 10 Continue Reading

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First impressions: Intruders (S1, E1″She Was Provisional”/E2 “And Here … You Must Listen”)

Posted on August 30, 2014August 27, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Humanity has long been fascinated by the idea of what lies beneath, or just beyond, the limits of our perception. Anchored most firmly to the three dimensions of the physical world, and mired in the turgid everyday certainty of the banal and the ordinary, there has always been a Continue Reading

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Now this is music #36: Buchanan, Mansions on the Moon, Generationals, Salt Cathedral, Javelin

Posted on August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Whoosh! Was that another second, another hour, another frantically busy day of life screaming on by? Yes it was, and while it is energising and thrilling to a point, and gets the blood pumping and the juices flowing, there comes a time when you need to ramp things down, Continue Reading

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Movie review: The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Posted on August 29, 2014August 28, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) likes to blow things up. It doesn’t really matter where or when – at one point he fights against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War simply so he can hear things go “Boom!”; his allegiance is to the explosion and only the explosion such Continue Reading

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#Emmys2014: 5 things I loved about the 66th Primetime Emmys Awards show

Posted on August 27, 2014August 27, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Once more to the Primetime Emmy Awards my friend, once more! And once more, as seems to be the case every year, there is controversy aplenty but not this time, oddly enough, about the content of the show itself , but rather the style of the annual awards ceremony, which was described Continue Reading

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Hello Girls! Lena Dunham, a wayward bike and the season 4 teaser trailer

Posted on August 27, 2014August 27, 2014 by aussiemoose

  For all her narcissism and the resulting social blindness it engenders, there is still something inherently likeable about Hannah Horvath, the wanna-be successful writer/great friend/stellar lover and partner portrayed by soon-to-be published author Lena Dunham in HBO’s Girls, a show she also writes and produces. It has a lot to Continue Reading

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Doctor Who: “Deep Breath” (S8, E1 review)

Posted on August 26, 2014August 31, 2014 by aussiemoose

  You could be forgiven for expecting Doctor Who, newly moved on from massive 50th birthday celebrations last year, and about to induct a new Time Lord occupant of the TARDIS, Peter Capaldi, as the 12th Doctor, to lay on the gravitas and serious drama for “Deep Breath”, the first episode Continue Reading

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FUNX3 with Parks and Recreation: Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Nick Offerman

Posted on August 26, 2014August 26, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I know someone, somewhere rather sagely once noted that all good things must come to an end, and while I appreciate the logical sentiment embodied in this, let’s be fair, rather obvious observation (no points for originality there buddy) and its universal truth, it still saddens me to think Continue Reading

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    SNAPSHOTAs a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Shazam – Fury of the Gods
    If you think about, you rarely see superheroes smile or really exult with wild abandon in what they do. Sure, you’ll see moments of quiet celebration or the exhilaration of a job well done as the Big Bad of the moment is banished into the darkness from which they first Continue Reading
  • Book review: Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
    There is a log and stories tradition of aliens invading Earth. Regardless of the medium, they usually arrive in the skies above our blue ball of life, an armada of advanced technology in terrifyingly awe inspiring form, and variously proceed to attack/enslave/pretend to help while secretly destroying us. It’s big, Continue Reading
  • Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading
  • Streaming selection 4: The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) and Shrinking (S1, E7-9)
    The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) What matters more – the needs of the one or the needs of the many? It depends on which side of the ethical, and often emotional divide, you stand; in Star Trek: The Original Series‘s film The Wrath of Khan, Spock argues with Continue Reading
  • A mini-mass of movie trailers: The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu, Simulant and My Happy Ending
    I love movies with a huge amount of heart. They can live in any genre and plots outlandish or sweetly nuanced but they must have some real humanity front and centre, something to stir the soul and make you feel something. These three films well and and truly fit the Continue Reading
  • Book review: How to be Remembered by Michael Thompson
    It’s a talented writer indeed who can take an appealing out-there premise and invest it with so much humanity that you forget how extraordinary the bedrock narrative of the novel is, consumed only the affectingly real story with which you have been gifted. The consummately good writer in this instance Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
    Pinocchio is one of those stories that we think we know intimately and well, thanks to the 1940 Disney animated version of the book by The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (with illustrations by Gris Grimly) which has gripped the public consciousness ever since its release and which defines for many Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #83: Rose Gray, Jake Shears, Maisie Peters, Loïc Nottet and Anne-Marie + Eurovision 2023 update!
    Life is HARD. For all the ups, and they are sweet, there are plenty of downs and struggling can be everything. It helps then to have singers like the five featured here to not only help you make sense of it all, but to set their thoughts and ruminations to Continue Reading
  • Hail the Best Pictures of the year: Montage showcases all 10 nominees
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