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Posted on October 10, 2014October 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * This post first appeared on An Online Universe * I am a rom-com tragic. (It’s an odd juxtaposition of terms since (a) romantic comedies are supposed to be all Meet Cute to happily ever after ending with only a minor third act detour into sadness of any kind Continue Reading

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Happy shiny zombies: What if everyone in The Walking Dead was understanding and compassionate?

Posted on October 10, 2014October 9, 2014 by aussiemoose

  You can well understand why The Walking Dead‘s Rick, Daryl, Michonne and the rest of the onetime prison gang (before it was rather shortsightedly blown up by the Governor) don’t always see eye to eye. After all, fighting for your life against the flesh-eating undead while simultaneously holding on Continue Reading

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First impressions: Madam Secretary (S1, E1 “Pilot”)

Posted on October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 by aussiemoose

  If the current imbroglio with Islamic State in Syria/Iraq with its witches brew of sectarian fighting, genocidal bloodbaths and endlessly-on-the-move geo-political posturing has taught us anything, it is that (yet again) the world is not, not has it ever been, an easy place in which to operate, much less Continue Reading

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Dance! Mindy Kaling and Elmo get enthusiastic about grooving to a beat

Posted on October 8, 2014October 6, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I LOVE MINDY KALING! AND I LOVE ELMO! OH AND DANCING … I LOVE DANCING! What’s with all the capitalised effusive declarations you ask? Why I am just being ENTHUSIASTIC!, a state of being where, as Mindy explains to a happily-hyped Elmo, “you’re really excited about something”. You know, like Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Boxtrolls

Posted on October 7, 2014October 7, 2014 by aussiemoose

  There is something pleasingly, imaginatively dark in the drinking water at animation studio Laika, whose latest stop motion release The Boxtrolls (based on the book Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow) follows in much the same storytelling vein as its previous films Coraline and Paranorman, both of which were firmly Continue Reading

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The Swingin’ Sixties in space: Syfy’s Ascension gets its first full trailer

Posted on October 7, 2014October 2, 2014 by aussiemoose

  The Sixties were a tumultuous decade to say the least. The certainty of the rigid and often blatantly sexist and racist social mores of the ’50s and early ’60s were swept aside as the counter-culture “Flower Power” revolution gained momentum, a host of countries around the world gained independence, the Continue Reading

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Book covers: all questions and no answers … till now

Posted on October 5, 2014October 4, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Let’s face it, we live in a busy, busy world with a billion and one insanely interesting things beckoning for our attention. We want to get to every movie, watch every TV show, read every book and get absorbed in every play but we simply aren’t able to, nor Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Skeleton Twins

Posted on October 5, 2014October 4, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Ask anyone who’s been an adult for longer than about five minutes if life has ever disappointed them, and the odds are you will get, with varying degrees of emotional candour, a shaking of the head, followed by a prolonged sigh and a knowing glance that suggests the business of living never Continue Reading

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So many Pixar emotions, one smartly-executed Inside Out trailer

Posted on October 4, 2014October 3, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s been over a year since we last feasted our eyes on some emotionally-rich, well-told feature length animation from Pixar (2013’s Monsters University) and I feel SAD (I’ve missed their beautiful stories) … And ANGRY (at the wait) … and FEARFUL (there won’t be another film ever) … and Continue Reading

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A recipe for Captain Picard face palm cookies? Get me to a kitchen and … Engage!

Posted on October 4, 2014September 17, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Being the captain of a Starfleet vessel is not an easy task at any time, what with aggressive Klingons or Romulans always on the lookout for a bruising encounter, Q liable to pop at a moment’s notice and inconvenient rips in the space/time continuum to contend with. It’s even Continue Reading

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    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTOn Christmas Eve, Cliff (starring Michael Strassner who also co-wrote the script), a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi (Liz Larsen), an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparks an unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together, Continue Reading
  • Step into your future: Starfleet Academy teaser trailer drops at SDCC 2025
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe series is set in the 32nd century, the far-future of the Star Trek franchise where Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets are recovering from a cataclysmic event, as depicted in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024). Starfleet Academy follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over Continue Reading
  • “You think you’re in control of this… You’re not.” The electric second full trailer for Tron: Ares
    (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
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    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
  • Graphic novel review: William of Newbury by Michael Avon Oeming
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Fascinating though it may be for past events junkies like this reviewer, history doesn’t come alive for everyone. It’s a real pity because not only is delving into the annals of history brilliantly interesting but it ensures, as the adage reminds us, that we are familiar Continue Reading
  • 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
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