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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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  • Christmas movie preview: Jingle Bell Heist, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Champagne Problems + My Secret Santa
    (via Shutterstock) If you have only ever paid passing attention to this blog, and seriously, why would you not dive into its wonderfully eclectic depths (a conversation for another time perhaps?), you will realise that I LOVE Christmas. LOVE. IT. The apartments gets decorated within an inch of its life. Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Movie trilogies are often, though not always, governed by the wholly unforgiving law of diminishing returns. What was vital and fresh in the first film becomes diluted though often still appealing in the second film all of which means that by the third instalment, there is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Maskeys by Stuart Everly-Wilson
    (courtesy Transit Lounge Publishing) Despite this book’s title, The Maskeys, and no, this does not require a spoiler alert, are not the centrepiece of the novel which bears their rather blighted name. Penned by Stuart Everly-Wilson, who brought us the superlatively good Low Expectations, The Maskeys revolves instead around Rodney, Continue Reading
  • Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Tron: Legacy
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Long delayed movie sequels are pretty thick on the ground with Hollywood having taken up the rallying cry of “Leverage the IP!” with bottom-line scanning gusto. Like anything driven partly by a desire to expand a franchise rather than coming up with a startling new idea, some Continue Reading
  • Book review: Love Bites by Cynthia St. Aubin
    (courtesy Tor Publishing Group) The crime genre, early teenage voracious consumption of Agatha Christie’s entire output aside, has never really compelled this reviewer to sit down and read like, say science-fiction or slice-of-life quirky dramas. While most sections of my favourite bookshops see regular footfall from me, the crime section Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Stitch Head by Guy Bass (writer) and Pete Williamson (artwork)
    (courtesy Larrikin Press) It’s a recurring theme in all kinds of creative expression – just who are the monsters really and might they be lurking where you least suspect? The answer, to the second question at least, is an emphatic “YES!!”, owing to the fact that humanity, despite millennia of Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Tron
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Jumping back in time, if not literally then at least cinematically, is always an interesting exercise. Nostalgia exerts a powerful pull on all of us, and watching how it fares when it comes to seeing the object of its hagiographying live and in person again is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life can often like a series of existentially testing events, punctuated by rare moments of levity and joy and wrapped in a lifetime of pain, hurt, loss and hard-won gains. That might seem bleak but for most it’s an accurate take on this thing called life, and Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #129: Georgia, BENEE, Sigrid, Ella Collier + Moyka + ABBA performimg “Mamma Mia” in 1975
    (via Shutterstock) There are some months that just reward you with brilliant songs. Songs that, for a whole host of reasons, you play over and over again and which, for this beleaguered commuter reviewer at least, making walking to the train station and back not feel quite so arduous and Continue Reading
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