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Book review: Blackout by Mira Grant

Posted on August 30, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  The final book in the imaginatively-named Newsflesh Trilogy, in which society survives the zombie apocalypse but in a form almost unreconisable to the one we know today, Blackout is all about reunions, farewells and yes, the revealing and bringing to justice of those behind the great conspiracy that has Continue Reading

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The answer is always YES: Words of wisdom from Cookie Monster’s Joy of Cookies book

Posted on August 30, 2017August 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Life can be a tad tricky to navigate at times. Oh who are we kidding? It can be freaking impossible much of the time, and so, we look to those with wisdom, experience, special insights and well-earned truth to guide us. As figures of authority go, you can’t do Continue Reading

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Movie review: Small Town Killers (Dræberne fra Nibe)

Posted on August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 by aussiemoose

  You know that point in any marriage or longterm relationship where the love has died, the sex has followed suit, and you decide that it’d be cheaper and easier just to hire a hitman to kill your partner than resolve the issues or divorce? No? Well Ib (Nicolas bro) Continue Reading

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How do you make a blockbuster movie trailer? Auralnauts makes it hilariously easy

Posted on August 29, 2017August 28, 2017 by aussiemoose

  “There is nothing new under the sun” proclaims the writer of Ecclesiastes 1:9, and while it’s a fair bet that they weren’t talking about blockbuster movies or the trailers their herald their behemoth-like impending presence, you can’t help but feel that had they been alive today, and seen just Continue Reading

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BB-8 loses his head over cutest new residents of Star Wars universe

Posted on August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Unless you are obsessively keeping up with every shred, snippet and morsel of news about the seemingly neverending stream of Star Wars movies these days – not complaining being an old fan from 1977 days but there are, to be fair, many films in the pipeline – you may Continue Reading

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There are Aliens Among Us … and so is Torchwood (again)

Posted on August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  From the get-go, I loved Torchwood, Russell T. Davies’, sometimes quirky, often harshly emotional, never dull and boring, spin-off from the long-running Doctor Who TV series. Treating dealing with aliens as an almost gladiatorial sports in which the fate of the universe hung in the balance, and death was Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: The Looking Planet

Posted on August 27, 2017August 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT This CGI 3D Animated Short Film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Continue Reading

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El Patito: Sesame Street parodies Despacito in the sweetest Ernie and Rubber Ducky way

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

  Ah ubiquity you are a double-edged sword. In the case of the catchiest song of the US summer, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee), that means lots of airplay, remixes without count and the constant presence of the song on just about platform imaginable. It also means, Sesame Continue Reading

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Movie review: Logan Lucky

Posted on August 26, 2017August 26, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If you’re a good law-abiding member of society, and let’s face it, that’s most of us, there’s a great big give-a-finger-to-the-law visceral thrill in watching people that are not you embark on a life of crime. Much like apocalypse movies (my takeout food is here; now I shall watch Continue Reading

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How should Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have ended? Here’s how!

Posted on August 26, 2017August 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading

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  • 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: Stich 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
  • Don’t let the bullies win … The Twits drops its feisty trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAcademy Award-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston reimagines Roald Dahl’s iconic characters, Jim & Credenza Twit, in their first feature animated adventure. The Twits tells the story of Mr. & Mrs. Twit, the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Plunging into the latest novel by John Scalzi, and fortunate to have read a number of his books before this, I was well aware of just good a writer this man is and how well he imagines realities beyond our own, bringing them to life with Continue Reading
  • Movie review: All of You
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Knowledge, especially when it’s anchored in scientific truth, is a good and powerful thing. Though there are far too many in the world today who believe that facts are situational and malleable and able to bent at will to suit whatever purpose you have in mind, the Continue Reading
  • Book review: Foreign Country by Marija Peričić
    (courtesy Ultimo Press) One of the ways we survive the many vagaries of life is to tell ourselves stories; they’re usually self-serving storylines that reinforce the internal narrative we have long told ourselves to help us make sense of events that would otherwise defy easy categorisation. Are they always truthful? Continue Reading
  • One week for a lifetime … Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation gets the cinematic treatment
    (courtesy BRIT + CO via Yahoo) SNAPSHOTFree-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what Continue Reading
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