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Wayward Pines: “Sound the Alarm” (S2, E5 review)

Posted on June 29, 2016June 29, 2016 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS … AND A WHOLE LOT OF ABBIES INTENSITY GOING ON* So we witnessed the first strike for Abbies equality this week when it was revealed, via a neat sequence at the end of the episode, that all the males of the species are controlled, drone-like, by the females Continue Reading

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What is the nature of your reality? Westworld plays with your conceptions

Posted on June 29, 2016June 24, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The one-hour drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can Continue Reading

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Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence

Posted on June 28, 2016June 30, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Good lord but Earth continues to be popular with the invading aliens crowd doesn’t it? And it’s not like they just visit the one time; in Independence Day: Resurgence, Roland Emmerich’s bigger-than-galactic-Ben-Hur follow-up to 1996’s Independence Day everyone’s favourite hive mind aliens are back and this time they’ve bought Continue Reading

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Don’t cry for me Eurovision: Leonie Sii’s tips for coping with post-event depression

Posted on June 28, 2016June 25, 2016 by aussiemoose

  One thing that I discovered fairly quickly when I began watching the Eurovision Song Contest is that it’s impossible to simply view it and feel nothing. You either loathe and detest it (yes there are people out there that do believe it or not), or adore it and love Continue Reading

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Now this is music #70: Broods, Foreign Air, Makelove, Sizzy Rocket, Yoke Lore

Posted on June 26, 2016June 26, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Life is way too short to be beholding to unhealthy attitudes, other people’s suffocating opinions or playing it too safe. So these five artists, with songs as animalistic and forceful and yet engagingly attractive and listenable as the subject matter they convey go some way to getting you to Continue Reading

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The Girl With All the Gifts: Welcome to your zombie future humanity (trailer)

Posted on June 26, 2016June 22, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries”. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children Continue Reading

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Book review: The Trees by Ali Shaw

Posted on June 25, 2016December 7, 2016 by aussiemoose

  When we think of the apocalypse or dystopian futures, our minds usually go to scenes of the undead pursuing the living with flesh-craving resolve, giant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, or cities rife with grime and decay, poverty and despair. They do not, however, entertain visions of Continue Reading

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Pack your Kickstarter bags: Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn

Posted on June 25, 2016June 22, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn is a book about a big dog moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Brooklyn, New York. It’s 32 pages long and will be full of beautiful photo-illustrations created by Mitch and starring Vivian, with some pretty fantastic letterings and drawings by the Continue Reading

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Movie review: Everybody Wants Some!!

Posted on June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Styled as a spiritual successor to Linklater’s 1993 ode to the dying days of high school Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! concentrates on another transitional period in many peoples’ lives – the move to college/university when everything seems possible but you wonder if you’ll be able to make Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: Vestiges aka how to fight black sludge with a flamingo and plant magic

Posted on June 24, 2016June 21, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Word to the wise people – if the grassy idyllic valley in which you live is threatened by an advancing mass of black mud, one which at times takes humanoid shape, you should make sure you have a giant flying flamingo at hand and some plant magic with which Continue Reading

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    Life, you may have noticed, doesn’t really come with a manual. We have to make the best of it we can, usually, and for most people, that means putting one foot in front of the other, getting a job, making a family of some kind and finding small moments of Continue Reading
  • Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 1 – Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czechia, Finland + Ireland (Semi-final 1, part 1)
    What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
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    Being alive can be hard. It’s better than the alternative, obviously, but it comes with a host of loaded situations, emotional minefields and the gnawing sense that we might not be quite up to the job. Existential imposter syndrome, anyone? In these three films, life goes under the microscope, both Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
    Head over heart? Or vice versa? All of us tend to lean one way or the other, not necessarily wholly but to a sufficient enough extent that our decisions on what to do next in life or whom to see pivot on either a calm analysis of the evidence at Continue Reading
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