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Silicon Valley: Changing the Way Things Change (season 4 trailer + poster)

Posted on March 31, 2017March 30, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill) brings his irreverent brand of humor, and his own experiences working in Silicon Valley, to Continue Reading

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Kedi gives voice to the cats of Istanbul (trailer)

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Hundreds of thousands of Turkish cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, the cats of Istanbul live between two worlds, Continue Reading

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Movie review: Beauty and the Beast

Posted on March 29, 2017October 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Remaking any beloved film, especially one loaded with as much deserved nostalgia and reverence as 1991’s animated triumph Beauty and the Beast comes loaded with an impossible weight of Solomonic dilemmas. Do you slavishly recreate it for a new generation, a resolutely pointless exercise given there is very little Continue Reading

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It’s true, animated Mariah! All I Want For Christmas is You (teaser trailer)

Posted on March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT According to the official press release, All I Want for Christmas Is You will center around a young Mariah (voiced by Breanna Yde), who wants a puppy named Princess for Christmas. But before Princess can be hers, she has to pet-sit Jack, described as “a scraggly rascal of Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “The Other Side” & “Something They Need” (S7, E14 & E15 review)

Posted on March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CHASM OF MORAL RELATIVITY BIG ENOUGH TO DRIVE A TRUCK THROUGH*   Moral relativity, thou are king in the apocalypse! That’s hardly a surprise with The Walking Dead, pretty much from episode one, making it clear that the collapse of civilisation might, or might Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: Meet the delightfully creepy critters of Dark Dark Woods

Posted on March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Young princess Maria has had about enough of her royal life – it’s all lesson, responsibilities and duties on top of each other, every hour of every day. Overwhelmed, Maria is swept away on an adventure into the monster-filled dark, dark woods. (synopsis courtesy Vimeo) Created by a Continue Reading

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Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 1 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus

Posted on March 25, 2017March 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  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 Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Salesman

Posted on March 25, 2017October 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If you are to believe the extremists of the world, morality is lived in bright well-defined technicolour, with no room for ambiguity or misinterpretation. However, the reality is that while there are core principles that should be observed, much of them possessing a distinct Ten Commandments flavour, life is Continue Reading

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Now this is music #85: Bad Wave, Rubblebucket, Deidre & the Dark, Fufanu, Grace Mitchell (+ Eurovision 2017 news)

Posted on March 24, 2017March 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  In those moments when life seems just a little too complicated for its own good, or more pertinently, ours, you might wish that things were a whole lot simpler. And while, yes, there’s a good case to be made for a simple life, there’s a lot to be said Continue Reading

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Bogan* : An hilarious parody that shows how washed-up Wolverine actually is

Posted on March 24, 2017March 17, 2017 by aussiemoose

  You really have to have watched the trailer for one of this year’s best movies Logan – but by all means watching the whole film which is just superb – to realise that Wolverine aka James Howlett is a mere near non-invincible shadow of his former self. In the Continue Reading

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    Apocalypses are, as a rule, not exactly places of merriment and jollity. The human race has been decimated, if it survives much at all, zombies/aliens/malevolent viruses/ naturally violent phenomenon stalk the land and civilisation are we know it is toast and likely to remain so in one of those evolutionary Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) Love is a messy powerful thing – sometimes it works in our favour, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, and our romantic dreams crumble into dust, it can feel like the world has fallen apart, it can feel like indescribably words, emotions so big and damaging they somehow Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Past Lives
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There’s something achingly affecting about the relationship many of us have with the past. Whether it was a sad or happy time, and regardless of where it left us in the present, there’s a certain mourning that takes place, a melancholic nostalgia for what might have been Continue Reading
  • The tide is turning: First trailer drops for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
    (courtesy IMP awards) SNAPSHOTHaving failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once & for all. Now Black Manta is more formidable than ever, wielding the power of the mythic Black Continue Reading
  • Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
    (courtesy Arthur A. Levine books) If a book has a quirky title, it’s a better than even bet than this reviewer will pick it up, hold it close and not yield it to anyone, save for the person at the bookstore (you know, because paying for things is good, not Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Astronaut Down by James Patrick and Rubine
    (courtesy AFTERSHOCK) Staring down the existential barrel of oblivion as we currently are, thanks to an epidemic, climate change, AI, encroaching fascism and a thousand other malodorous life-ending ailments, we have become well used to storytelling that inhabits a future apocalyptic/dystopian storytelling landscape. Usually these stories operate as a weird Continue Reading
  • Alone and together: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S3, E4-7
    (courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that has demarcated this season of Only Murders in the Building from the two that preceded it is how much time our beloved three investigating podcasters have spent apart. In the first three episodes this seemed like a minor but irritating misjudgement, as if the Continue Reading
  • Movie review: A Brighter Tomorrow (Il sol dell’avvenire)
    (courtesy IMDb) It’s all too easy to fall into ruts in life. What seems like the perpetuation of something good and rewarding, the sustaining of ritual and performance which has worked for so many years, suddenly becomes a weight around your neck, or more accurately around the necks of those Continue Reading
  • Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier
    (via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading
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