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The short and the short of it: Titano! The (Most Touching) Terror You Will Never Forget!

Posted on August 16, 2015August 15, 2015 by aussiemoose

    I have to be honest – I am a horror movie wimp. Recoiling generally at the ideas of vampires, mummies, zombies – there are some notable exceptions of course such as The Walking Dead – I prefer to avoid any kind of movie that gives these characters any Continue Reading

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Hi-yah! The Muppets leap back onto TV with all new star-studded promos

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by aussiemoose

  If you’re a Muppets fan, and of course you are, then your heart will no doubt have rung with a million joyous “Wocka Wockas!” when news broke that The Muppets, newly zeitgeist-resplendent after two very successful movies, were going back on TV. In primetime. In an The Office-style mockumentary Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Hair hair! Wear your favourite authors on your T-shirted chest

Posted on August 15, 2015August 13, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There’s something about finding a book we really love that’s made even more special when we discover, O happily prosaic day!, that we also love everything else that author has every written. And, of course, given that true devotion knows no bounds, will ever write. (OK that could be a Continue Reading

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Don’t panic! Don’t panic! The Dad’s Army movie teaser poster + trailer is here

Posted on August 15, 2015August 13, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army.  But in Walmington-on-Sea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then – to patrol the Dover army base – is a Continue Reading

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Now this is music #53: HANA, franskild, NEKOKAT, Alice on the Roof, Ben Browning

Posted on August 14, 2015December 21, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Life is full of all kinds of twists and turns, contradictory highs and lows, shades of light and darkest night. It can be a lot to take in and deal with sometimes but it helps when you have artists like the following five acts to help you out. All Continue Reading

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Book review: A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install

Posted on August 14, 2015February 28, 2020 by aussiemoose

  Like cat videos and the word “Like”, memes, the perfect joining together of picture and word, find their natural home on the internet. One in particular, “I Can’t Adult Today. Please Don’t Make me Adult”, is especially popular with grown-ups everywhere, an exquisite summation of the exhaustion that comes Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Respite” (S5, E6 review)

Posted on August 12, 2015August 13, 2015 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS AND OLD MACDONALD’S ESPHENI-FREE FARM AHEAD*   There was an air of the Britney Spears about Falling Skies this week. And no, I don’t mean the entire 2nd Mass. dressed up in schoolgirl outfits and sashayed with pouts big enough to swallow an entire football team past rows Continue Reading

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Small screen specials: My 5 favourite TV sitcom characters

Posted on August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 by aussiemoose

  I am pretty sure that someone somewhere, most likely my mother, or Big Bird, said with grave solemnity that you should never ever play favourites. Something to do with feelings getting hurt, people getting marginalised, and people starving over in Ethiopia (wait, no, that last one was for something Continue Reading

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The Story of Kullervo: The epic J.R.R. Tolkien story that started it all finally gets published

Posted on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of Continue Reading

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Rockin’ and a-rollin’ with Ricki and the Flash (poster + trailer)

Posted on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in the uplifting comedy Ricki and the Flash. In a film loaded with music and live performance, Continue Reading

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  • This just ain’t his story. It’s our story.” Washington Black makes the leap from book to screen
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFollows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When an incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges & Continue Reading
  • Book review: Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond
    (Harper Collins Publishers Australia) What great longing rests in the depths of our seemingly endless hearts and soul? For most of us, it’s really no more than a guess though if pressed we could likely name a few wished and longed-for things that we would like to see manifest like Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Appearances, as we all know and have been instructed about repeatedly, can be deceiving. For one reason or another, people project one thing while living quite another, a white lie in most cases that avoids emotional entanglement, vulnerability or the need to share in something that Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
    (courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Delving deep into someone’s life over a long period of time is something rarely afforded to us unless they are a family member or close friend. We might know people well and converse, laugh and cry with them over all sorts of life events but really Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #124: GRANT KNOCHE, MO, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lil Nas X + Miley Cyrus
    (via Shutterstock) Life is a LOT. And while there’s no escaping that, you can find ways to work through the myriad of emotions that summons, including of course channeling it into some highly cathartic music. These five artists do that brilliantly and well and the resultant songs manage to get Continue Reading
  • Book review: Salvage by Jennifer Mills
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) What would happen if the world “ended” in slow motion? In other words, rather than the big bang and boom of the usual fall of civilisation that we have seen documented in all kinds of apocalyptic storytelling, what if the cataclysmic hell of the end of Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Flow
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to emerge from watching a movie of any kind and feel both soothed and euphoric. Surely the two states are antithetical, with the more active one bludgeoning the other into emotional oblivion with boundlessly energetic vivacity? Or the former chilling you the Continue Reading
  • Breaking free: How Jim Henson and his team made the Muppets magic happen
    (courtesy Muppet Wiki / (c) The Jim Henson Company / Disney) SNAPSHOTThe illusions that have baffled me for years is when muppets go outside when they seem to break free from their puppeteers and become little sentient creatures….These movies were released before CGI was ubiquitous. These are in-camera effects. What Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Growing up should be a time of limitless optimism and possibility, a temporal place where imagination runs riot, adventure is the order of the day and all the burdens of the world don’t fall upon your still small shoulders. But sometimes, all those good and wonderful Continue Reading
  • Want to borrow some nostalgia? Head on over to Video Heaven
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTFor some thirty years, from the 1980s until their decline in the 2010s, video shops were crucial arenas for film culture – and both highbrow and lowbrow American cinema has documented their rise, fall and changing meanings. Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven, a labour of love ten years Continue Reading
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