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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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    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you had someone die who was absolutely central to your world, and whose absence makes it feel considerably smaller and barren, then you will understand the wholly disorienting sense of everything feeling like it just STOPS. The world might keep moving around you with its customary Continue Reading
  • It’s time for a closer look at the unsettling mystery of The Boroughs
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If you have even a modicum of self awareness and personal integrity, the idea of pretending to be something you’re not often doesn’t sit well with you. The only way you can live with a fake persona and your real self sitting cheek-by-jowl is to Continue Reading
  • There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood
    (courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Sheep Detectives
    (courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading
  • Hollywood and its history is conquered in the latest Minions & Monsters trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Hollywood has a monster problem.” 🦑 🍌 Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, Despicable Me 4, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous new chapter, featuring all-new characters, in the biggest global animated franchise: Minions & Monsters. This is the Continue Reading
  • Documentary review: A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough #Happy100thDA
    (courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) When you have been alive for 100 years – happy birthday Sir David Attenborough once again! – and you’ve been filming for the greater part of that impressive lifespan, the odds are that there is more to find out about some of the memorable scenes you Continue Reading
  • From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100 (curated article) #Happy100thDA
    (courtesy The Conversation / BBC, CC BY-NC-ND) Article by Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University (via The Conversation) Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this week. Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve Continue Reading
  • A lifetime of service to the natural world – and those who love it: Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! #Happy100thDA
    One of the great and much-loved constants of my life has been the presence of Sir David Attenborough in many of the natural world documentaries I have watched and have come to love. A man who clearly loves, champions and advocates for his very precious subject matter, who possesses a Continue Reading
  • Movie review catch-up: Suncoast
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Growing up, and especially starting on the transition to adulthood, is never an easy thing at the best of times, but when you’re life is not “normal”, not even close to it, (and that’s leaving aside the fact that the very idea of normal is a rubbery Continue Reading
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