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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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    (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the great joys of Peanuts, the warmly iconic comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, is how he always loved and revered the underdog. He was realistic enough to know that underdogs didn’t always have the easiest time of it, but in Charlie Brown, Linus, and Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Matt Haig) It’s a rare and wonderful thing to pick up a book, read the back blurb and decide to get it because it sounds like a deliciously appealing mix of quirky and thoughtful, and then to find that it not only deliver on the promise of its premise Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMDb / (c) DC Comics/Warner Bros Entertainment) SNAPSHOTThe world’s greatest heroes, DC’s Justice League, have mysteriously vanished and a terrifying phantom has taken up residence in The Hall of Justice. Now it’s up to the world’s greatest super sleuths, Scooby and the gang, to solve the mystery and save Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Impressive though they are, with blockbuster epicness leaking from their every oversized, CGI-enhanced narrative pore, one thing that superhero often don’t have in abundance is a bold and affecting sense of real affecting humanity. Oh, they have pivotally impactful moments – well, moments engineered to be that Continue Reading
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