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How do you fend off an Alien: Covenant face hugger? Let Rick and Morty show you how!

Posted on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If you’ve watched any of the Alien films, and let’s face it most of us have (and have the blanket forts we hid in when things got scary to prove it – wait, was that just me?), you’ll be well aware that getting a face hugger attached to your Continue Reading

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A delightful new animated take on The Ugly Duckling

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

  SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading

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Alien and kittens? Yep, it’s all fun and games on board the Nostromo

Posted on May 30, 2017May 30, 2017 by aussiemoose

  By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading

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Blast off into dramedy space with The Orville

Posted on May 30, 2017May 26, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these Continue Reading

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Movie review: 20th Century Women

Posted on May 27, 2017October 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  When a film has been as long a time coming as 20th Century Women has been one its long and winding trip to the cinemas of Australia, you begin to wonder if it will match the hype and breathless reviews that precede it. In many cases, films don’t meet Continue Reading

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The absolute Wonder of love and acceptance (poster + trailer)

Posted on May 27, 2017May 26, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder  tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb) When it all comes down to it, all any Continue Reading

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Now this is music #89: Knox Fortune, STRØM, Lxandra, Refs, Ruby Fields

Posted on May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 by aussiemoose

  One of the things I love about music is its complexity and relatability, the way it helps you to not just make sense of life but to add to it too, even if it all it does is lift you up for a moment. At the end of a Continue Reading

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What will you become? Fear the Walking Dead season 3 (poster and trailers)

Posted on May 26, 2017June 1, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT As Fear the Walking Dead returns for season three, our families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent region formerly known as the U.S.-Mexico border. International lines done away with following the world’s end, our characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as Continue Reading

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Book review: The End of the Day by Claire North

Posted on May 24, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  Let’s face it – Death does not have the best reputation around. It is seen, at least in much of Western secular thought, as the end of things, the loss of everything we know and love and hold dear, a terrifying journey into a dark unknown from which there Continue Reading

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Boldly going all over again: First Star Trek Discovery trailer

Posted on May 24, 2017May 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Set roughly ten years before the events of the original series, Star Trek: Discovery shows a never before seen era that shaped Federation history. First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) encounters new ships, worlds and villains as the threat of war looms.(synopsis via Netflix) There was a point, Continue Reading

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    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
  • A mini-mass of movie trailers: You Hurt My Feelings, When Time Got Louder and Rye Lane
    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
  • Pushing back is the order of the apocalyptic day – first teaser trailer for Sweet Tooth season 2
    SNAPSHOTAs a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Shazam – Fury of the Gods
    If you think about, you rarely see superheroes smile or really exult with wild abandon in what they do. Sure, you’ll see moments of quiet celebration or the exhilaration of a job well done as the Big Bad of the moment is banished into the darkness from which they first Continue Reading
  • Book review: Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
    There is a log and stories tradition of aliens invading Earth. Regardless of the medium, they usually arrive in the skies above our blue ball of life, an armada of advanced technology in terrifyingly awe inspiring form, and variously proceed to attack/enslave/pretend to help while secretly destroying us. It’s big, Continue Reading
  • Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading
  • Streaming selection 4: The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) and Shrinking (S1, E7-9)
    The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) What matters more – the needs of the one or the needs of the many? It depends on which side of the ethical, and often emotional divide, you stand; in Star Trek: The Original Series‘s film The Wrath of Khan, Spock argues with Continue Reading
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    I love movies with a huge amount of heart. They can live in any genre and plots outlandish or sweetly nuanced but they must have some real humanity front and centre, something to stir the soul and make you feel something. These three films well and and truly fit the Continue Reading
  • Book review: How to be Remembered by Michael Thompson
    It’s a talented writer indeed who can take an appealing out-there premise and invest it with so much humanity that you forget how extraordinary the bedrock narrative of the novel is, consumed only the affectingly real story with which you have been gifted. The consummately good writer in this instance Continue Reading
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