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Movie review: The Water Diviner

Posted on January 10, 2015January 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  War, or more specifically, the Great War of 1914-1918 has cost Mallee farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) a great deal. In the space of one gruelling, horrifyingly bloody war at Gallipoli in 1915, at which the enduring ANZAC legend was born, he loses all three sons to enemy Turkish Continue Reading

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Dinosaurs in Pawnee! The hilarious mash-up of Jurassic World and Parks and Recreation

Posted on January 10, 2015January 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There’s no denying that Chris Pratt’s star is in the ascendancy. After many years of playing loveable goofball Andy on Parks and Recreation, and adding his own piece of just-played-right comic genius to what is in anyone’s books a shining ensemble cast, he’s now finding increasing success in Hollywood, Continue Reading

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Movie review: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Posted on January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” (Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall) It is a rare thing indeed in this shout-everything-from-the-rooftop age that Continue Reading

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Oh so tiny and wonderful: Ant-Man debuts poster and full trailer

Posted on January 9, 2015January 8, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man. Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero Continue Reading

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Thunderbirds are go … again!

Posted on January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 by aussiemoose

  One of the fondest pop culture memories of my childhood, of which there are many – even then I was juggling my time between books, TV shows, movies and music so what maketh the  boy very much maketh the man – was getting up just before 6am when we Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: Ex Machina

Posted on January 6, 2015January 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Classic movie posters + DC superheroes = iconic images re-imagined

Posted on January 4, 2015December 16, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s always refreshing to see the work of people willing to think outside the box. It’s even better when it’s a venerable company like DC Comics, with a slew of much-loved characters to their name and a well-esteblished way of bringing to their fans. It would be very easy with Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to go Looking some more: Season 2 trailer

Posted on January 4, 2015January 2, 2015 by aussiemoose

  It is eminently possible for life to be a many-splendoured thing. But if you’re Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agustín (Frankie J. Álvarez) or Dom (Murray Bartlett), three friends living in San Francisco, juggling careers and busy social lives with what often feels like the endless search for Mr. Right, it can Continue Reading

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My but what Big Eyes you have Tim Burton!

Posted on January 3, 2015December 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Directed and produced by Tim Burton, Big Eyes is based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), who was one of the most successful painters 1950s and early 1960s. The artist earned staggering notoriety by revolutionizing the commercialisation and accessibility of popular art with his enigmatic Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Hobbit Battle of the Five Armies

Posted on January 3, 2015January 4, 2015 by aussiemoose

  If you were to take note solely of the more vociferous members of the critical chorus arraying themselves around Peter L. Jackson’s latest Middle Earth saga, The Hobbit, you could be forgiven for thinking that the three action-filled films he has formed out of Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel and events Continue Reading

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    Being emotionally affected by a movie is hardly a unique experience. In fact, when you go to see a film, you want to be moved in some way whether it’s eliciting a laugh in a comedy, a romantic swoon-worthy sign in a rom-com, or a gasp of fear or amazement Continue Reading
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    SNAPSHOTTrustfall is the upcoming ninth studio album by American singer Pink. The album is scheduled to be released on February 17, 2023, through RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from The Lumineers, Chris Stapleton and First Aid Kit. (courtesy Wikipedia) A new album from one of your favourite music Continue Reading
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    Finding intimate character moments in the midst of a sprawling space opera may seem like a strange anomaly, but the truth is that the two go together in ways many people not familiar with genre may not fully expect. Much like movie blockbusters which neatly characters with real, fully-rounded humanity Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: The Kite and a beautifully moving story of connection
    SNAPSHOTSummer is about to end, and while fruit is growing ripe on the trees, Grandpa gives his beloved Grandson a kite. The kite is strong and tosses the boy around in the air, but Grandpa catches him. Leaves begin to fall and Grandpa has grown weak. The srong autumn wind Continue Reading
  • Book review: Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
    Can one day change everything? If you’re Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood, it can and it does, with less than 24 hours in fact bringing about a messy kind of Road to Damascus moment for the titular character who finally confronts the one issue that ended up splintering her Continue Reading
  • Movie review: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
    One of the criticisms levelled at romantic comedies aka rom-coms more often than not is that they are light and ephemeral as their frothy subject matter. It’s an unfair dig in many respects since most rom-coms are simply there to transport us from the ugly, loveless everyday and into a Continue Reading
  • Engage: Star Trek Picard final season drops new trailer and artwork
    SNAPSHOTThe third and final season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard during the 25th century as he reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, and Deanna Troi), who are being hunted by Continue Reading
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    SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUNGI MONSTERS FROM YOUR KISSABLE NIGHTMARES … Apocalypses are never meant to be fun. The very cadence of the word suggests that, but if you add in the arrival of climate change horrors or monsters or aliens, that point is well and truly driven home as Continue Reading
  • Book review: Wolfsong by TJ Klune
    Being loved unconditionally and truly belonging are two of the greatest gifts anyone can ever receive. They bolster the heart, restore the soul and they are utterly alien to Oxnard Matheson, protagonist of TJ Klune’s latest masterpiece, Wolfsong. Not because he hasn’t been loved at all – he has always Continue Reading
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    I love going out to the movies. Yes, sometimes thoughtless idiots talk through the film and there’s always popcorn on the floor and there’s the effort of getting out and about BUT it’s lovely just being with other people and experiencing a film together that is so magically intoxicating. But Continue Reading
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