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I have been waiting for these Visitors: @gezanthony’s amazingly evocative ABBA videos #Eurovision2017

Posted on May 14, 2017May 12, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If there is one thing that really made ABBA’s name, apart from their superlatively good music and a handy high-profile win at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, its the way they pioneered the use of visual images, in concert with now-famed director Lasse Hallström, to promote their songs as Continue Reading

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Book review: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka #Eurovision2017

Posted on May 14, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  It’s often not until something traumatic or highly unusual happens in a family that you discover how well you do or don’t know these people with whom you have spent all or much of your life. And that many of the assumptions you have made about them come unravelling Continue Reading

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Movie review: Snatched

Posted on May 13, 2017May 13, 2017 by aussiemoose

  “On paper, at least …” has to be one of the most depressing lead-ins to any sentence. Throw it in front of just about any assessment of anything, and what looked to be bursting with shiny excitement and breathless anticipation is now tarnished a little (or a lot), a Continue Reading

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Join the animated dots: How Disney movies are connected through hidden Easter eggs

Posted on May 13, 2017May 13, 2017 by aussiemoose

  At first glance, you might not think that every Disney film is connected. But they are, my friend, they are! From Beauty and the Beast to Aladdin, and from The Little Mermaid to Moana, every feature from the Mouse House is connected by a deliciously enticing chain of easter Continue Reading

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Now this is music #88: Klyne, BRÅVES, Billie Eilish, Perfume Genius, Bipolar Sunshine

Posted on May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Life, you may have noticed – oh go on, you must have! – is a pretty complicated business. It zigs when you think it will zag, rises when you’re convinced it should fall, and never quite makes sense; well, not enough of the time anyway. Which is why you Continue Reading

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Hello Mr Cyberman! Doctor Who joins forces with Mr Men

Posted on May 12, 2017May 8, 2017 by aussiemoose

One of the movements that has to come to have a significant impact on modern entertainment options, apart from sequelitis which is alive and well (ish; let’s not get carried away here) is postmodernism, and specifically, it’s love of pluralism. In our 21st century meta-oriented world where the old and Continue Reading

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Movie review: Things to Come (L’avenir)

Posted on May 10, 2017May 9, 2017 by aussiemoose

  In a fictional context, life is often rendered in big, bold, exclamation-rich, declarative moments, ripe with portentous meaning and unable to be shrugged off with a cursory nod and a move on to the next task of hand. But the reality is that the emotionally-intense moments of our lives Continue Reading

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Book review: The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey

Posted on May 10, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  A curious thing has happened in the realm of apocalyptic fiction of late – the arrival of hope. Previously hope was nowhere to be seen, an unimaginable luxury in a darkly dystopian world where civilisation had collapsed, humanity had surrendered to its basest instincts and Darwinism was having an Continue Reading

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Movie review: A Stroke of Luck (Villaviciosa de al Lado) #SpanishFilmFest

Posted on May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 by aussiemoose

  It has oft been said, and yes I’m about to say it again, that there is nothing new under the sun. Everything that can be said has been said in one form or another meaning that if you’re going to make use of any frequently-used, been-there-done-that elements that you Continue Reading

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Can Dan Stevens reset the world in Kill Switch?

Posted on May 9, 2017May 3, 2017 by aussiemoose

  We all have stressful days right? Car won’t start. Boss is an ass. Trains don’t run to time. An attempt to tap into the supposedly limitless energy of alternate dimensions goes awry and ends the world as we know it. Wait … what?! Well, if you’re Dan Stevens, that’s Continue Reading

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  • Cover reveal party: The Way of the Walker by Salinee Goldenberg
    (courtesy Angry Robot Books) SNAPSHOTReturn to the Thai-inspired world of Suyoram in this sharp follow up to 2024’s The Last Phi Hunter, exploring mythology, colonialism, and feminine rage. Ree is born with her eyes open to the Everpresent — a heightened awareness where Phi Hunters pull their magic and can Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Fountain of Youth
    (courtesy IMP Awards) We are a people consumed by endless wonder and curiosity. Evidence of it is everywhere if you care to look for it, but if you’re a pop culture tragic like this reviewer, you see it most often in movies and books and streaming shows where stories lean Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Good lord but swashbuckling space operatic fun is good for the too tightly tied down soul. When all the stresses and obligations of life have you feel suffocatingly pinned into a very small and ever-diminishing space, picking up a superlatively good piece of wide-ranging sci-fi Continue Reading
  • Can you rebuild love? That’s the question at the heart of quirky sci-fi film, Daniela Forever
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTGrieving the loss of his girlfriend Daniela, Nicolás (Henry Golding) is consumed by sorrow. But he sees a glimmer of hope when he’s offered a chance to participate in groundbreaking sleep therapy simulating reality. But as dream and memory blur, he must confront what healing really means—and Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Lonely Hearts Quiz League by Lauren Farnsworth
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) It has long intrigued this reviewer why it is that we love “found family” stories so much. It’s not that they don’t present a comforting and warmly lovely scenario; after all, who doesn’t love the idea of sadness, loss and crushing social isolation being countered by slowly Continue Reading
  • “It’s not about surviving. It’s about taking our home back.”  Thoughts on The Eternaut (El Eternauta)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you’ve much streaming content over the last ten years, you will be well and truly acquainted with the fact that the world is coming to a messy and inglorious end. Well, maybe not today, or tomorrow even, but imminently in some way, shape or form, and Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) There is an inestimable joy to finding your people. We all start out in life with a family into which we are born, which can either work for us or not, but along the way, if we’re lucky enough, we accumulate friends so close they become that Continue Reading
  • “Please, open the door for me …” Jurassic World: Rebirth puts the fear of dinosaurs in everyone all over again (new trailer + poster)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind. Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion (released in Continue Reading
  • The humour and heart of humanity: Thoughts on Murderbot S1, E1-2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Watching a literary adaptation spring to life is always a fascinating exercise. Will it spring fully formed from the page like the visual manifestation of all the little films your mind inevitably feeds you as you read or will it feel like another story entirely, one that Continue Reading
  • New places to go, a new mystery to solve … Zootopia 2 releases new trailer + poster
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTZootopia 2 is directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, written by Bush, and stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, and Quinta Brunson. In the film, detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves Continue Reading
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