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Movie review: Monsieur Chocolat

Posted on June 30, 2017October 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Biopics are, in many ways, as reviled as they are loved. Done well, with inventiveness and a willingness to showcase creatively some core period in that person’s life that speaks best to who they were throughout, biopics are an illumination, a artistic snapshot grants compelling insight to figures often Continue Reading

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Raise your marmalade sandwiches high: Farewell Michael Bond, creator of Paddington #RIP

Posted on June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Back on one warm Friday morning in late 2014, I walked into a darkened cinema in Sydney, beyond eager (but also a little trepidatious) to watch Paddington, the big screen adaptation of Michael Bond’s much-loved bear. I needn’t have worried because the people who brought this film to life, Continue Reading

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Comic book review: Animal Noir (issues 1-4)

Posted on June 28, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  It is oft said that you should never discuss politics, religion or social issues. As truisms go, this is one that still carries a great deal of cautionary weight, especially in today’s world where people have retreated to hermetically-sealed belief towers into which no other line of thought should Continue Reading

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A fascinating journey: Adam Driver talks about finding his true vocation as an actor

Posted on June 28, 2017June 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Before he fought in the galactic battles of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Adam Driver was a United States Marine with 1/1 Weapons Company. He tells the story of how and why he became a Marine, the complex transition from soldier to civilian — and Arts in the Continue Reading

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Fear the Walking Dead: “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame” (S3, E5 review)

Posted on June 27, 2017June 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND POETRY, DAMN POETRY AND BRAIN-EATING CROWS One of the great existential dilemmas of The Walking Dead franchise as a whole has been whether it is possible to stay human (be tender, merciful, cultured, artistic) in the face of an unrelenting threat that, on the face Continue Reading

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Rollin’ France: An hilarious animated look at a world where animals are round

Posted on June 27, 2017June 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  You’ve seen Rollin’ Safari – and if you have not, why not, here’s the link, remedy this immediately if not sooner – and now the people who brought this imaginative and damn funny animated conjecturing on what a world of round animals would look like, Kyra Buschor and Constantin Päplow from Continue Reading

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Weekend poster art: The Little Hours get medievally saucy

Posted on June 25, 2017June 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The film stars Franco as a servant in the Middle Ages who flees the clutches of his oppressive master (Nick Offerman), ultimately taking up residence with a convent of wild nuns (Plaza, Shannon, Brie, Micucci) in the campy interpretation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century work The Decameron  (synopsis via Continue Reading

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Sesame Street: Whoopi Goldberg and Elmo Draw Picture for Pen Pal in Syria

Posted on June 25, 2017June 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Elmo wants to cheer up his friend Laila from Syria—so he decides to draw her a picture. Millions of children like Laila are missing out on education and need our help. (synopsis via YouTube) Though it is justifiably known and lauded for its brilliant work as a worldwide Continue Reading

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The Librarians: Saving the world, one comic book at a time

Posted on June 25, 2017June 21, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Way back in the swinging ‘70s, movie producer Sol Schick was the guy behind such cheesy classics as Quarry: Bigfoot!, Noah’s Ark: Found at Last! and Heavenly Visitors from the Hell Above. But when he’s murdered – at a film festival! – with a piece of Noah’s Ark! Continue Reading

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Book review: Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

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

  However you choose to play it, life has a way of constantly mixing it up, turning the tables when you least expect it, reversing roles, and exposing the richness or paucity of your character when you least expect it. We all know this on some level, and yet whenever Continue Reading

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  • “You think you’re in control of this… You’re not.” The electric second full trailer for Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) When you’re diving into a festive rom-com read, you hope and pray that you’ll be served up lashings of magical romance and renewal and healing in bountiful measure. That’s precise you get in the magnificently heartwarming joy and wonder that is Christmas is All Around by Martha Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly retro movie review: Christmas in July
    A lot can happen in just one day! Just ask Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), the protagonist of the 1940 Preston Sturges film, Christmas in July, who’s a grunt office worker from a working class neighbourhood of New York City who heads off to his menial day job in an office Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Who doesn’t adore a good love story? Even better, one set at Christmas when everything is at a peak of wonderfulness, magic is in the air and anything and everything seems possible (bar finding a parking spot at the locla mall but then, that’s a whole other Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Most superhero movies, if you look beyond the bangs and the booms and the epic struggles for curdely painted yet titanic struggles between god and evil, are about connection. Friendship, camaraderies, even family figure strongly, even with figures like Batman or Iron Man who might otehrwise be Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #126: Sally Shapiro, Parcels, Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams, Juno Mamba & edapollo + Tiësto/Odd Mob & Goodboys
    (via Shutterstock) Making music is, like a lot of creative endeavours, driven by individual talent and imagination. But often where the magic really happens is when likeminded, talented souls come together and in this case at least, literally make sweet music together. It’s a thrill to see and a joy Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: William of Newbury by Michael Avon Oeming
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Fascinating though it may be for past events junkies like this reviewer, history doesn’t come alive for everyone. It’s a real pity because not only is delving into the annals of history brilliantly interesting but it ensures, as the adage reminds us, that we are familiar Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti book #2) by Malka Older
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading
  • Star Trek: Strange Worlds review: “Hegemony, Part II” and “Wedding Bell Blues” (S3, E1-2)
    (courtesy IMP awards) One of the things, of many, which I have loved about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) from the very start is its embrace of genre-hopping, a willingness to be darkly serious one week and goofily quirky the next. The Original Series (TOS) and Next Generation (NG), Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) All of us, to some extent or another, come to appreciate through the course of our lives just how the present owes to the past. It’s not simply that one leads to the other though that is very much a part of what takes place Continue Reading
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