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Darwin on steroids: Evolve or die with The Titan

Posted on March 31, 2018March 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the near future, a military family uproot their lives so they can participate in a ground-breaking experiment to accelerate man’s genetic evolution. The goal? To relocate humanity to another planet and avoid extinction. (synopsis (c) Seat 42F) Humanity is a weirdly contrary species. Endlessly optimistic and resourceful, Continue Reading

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Book review: The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins

Posted on March 31, 2018June 15, 2019 by aussiemoose

  We live in an often cruel and unforgiving world. Thankfully in the midst of all the Darwinian madness and the transgressions of fallible humanity, both our own and those of our fellow human beings, there are kind and generous people who understand that what might be needed is less Continue Reading

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Been there, done that, got the undead T-shirt: Why People Stopped Watching The Walking Dead

Posted on March 31, 2018March 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  The Walking Dead used to be such a good show. It took a while for my housemate to convince this horror-averse boy that there was substance to go along with the zombies but he did and I found myself utterly transfixed by show that has was dark and apocalyptic Continue Reading

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Movie review: Walking Out

Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  It is a rare thing to find a film that manages to both subvert a genre and yet be richly poignant and honour it at the same time. Walking Out, written and directed by twins Alex & Andrew J. Smith, manages this impressive feat, presenting us with a gritty survival Continue Reading

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A fairytale for adults: The cinematic references and homages in #TheShapeofWater

Posted on March 30, 2018March 27, 2018 by aussiemoose

  What if the beauty fell for the beast? That’s the underlying idea behind the winner of the Academy Award for Best Film this year, The Shape of Water, which director Guillermo del Tor says was heavily informed by his lifelong love for the 1954 film, The Creature From the Continue Reading

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Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 2 – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland

Posted on March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 by aussiemoose

  What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading

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Future and past collide: Are you ready to make The Crossing?

Posted on March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Jude Ellis (Steve Zahn) is the sheriff of Port Canaan, a small fishing town on the Oregon coast. Having relocated from Oakland to escape a strained marriage and a dark past as a big city cop, his goal is to build a quiet new life for himself and Continue Reading

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Movie review: Annihilation

Posted on March 27, 2018November 26, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Much has been made of humanity’s “fight or flight” response to danger – the mechanism, borne of evolutionary necessity, that impels us to either take on an adversary in the hopes of besting them, or to run, as fast as we can, away from danger. It works marvellously in Continue Reading

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Kiddo and the fraught adventure of finding your way in the world

Posted on March 27, 2018March 16, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Kiddo is an action adventure coming of age film about a young orphan girl named Kim (Antonia Tootill) and her “two unusual buddies’ journey to find inner resolution and their place in the world.” (Laughing Squid) It’s cold, damn cold! And then it most certainly is not. One Continue Reading

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It’s incraftable! Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman host new show Making It

Posted on March 25, 2018March 24, 2018 by aussiemoose

  I am not an enthusiastic fan of baking/cooking/crafting/bedazzling reality TV shows. In fact, I’m not a fan at all. But, and this is a most crucial and highly-conditional but, if such a show were to be hosted by the god-like comedic talents of Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, both Continue Reading

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    (via Shutterstock) TV aka streaming with a huge dollop of humour is absolutely my jam. While I do appreciate a searing drama, my appetite for it has dropped considerably in the wake of the pandemic, and a remorselessly, overwhelmingly stressful job and so I’ve returned to my great first love Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
    (courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing) Coming-of-age stories are known for asking big questions about life. The novels usually feature a protagonist going through the messy business of sorting out who they are, how they it into the world around them and what matters to them, not just in the moment but in Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) I love big, sprawling, all-encompassing blockbuster movies. Movies so epic and vast you can lose yourself in, get your escapism hit for the week/day/month and still feel some deep emotional connection and reaction to the character and stories. These three films deliver all that and a whole heap Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #128: Sam Sauvage, Haute & Freddy, Benson Boone, Audrey Hobert and Planet Funk … plus fun with ABBA!
    (via Shutterstock) We all feel some sense of ownership with the music we listen to. Pop by its very definition is a shared, expansive group thing but it’s also something special and wonderful and unique that speaks to us and us alone in a way that’s all ours and no Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Italian Film Festival 2025 / Palace Cinemas) In the whimsically storied realm of rom-coms, first dates are usually cutely delightful or awkwardly awful; either extreme works for establishing, and yes, we all know what’s coming, that this couple is MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. It’s obvious and lacking nuance but Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: The hilarious wrath of ice cream denied in El Terror
    (courtesy Vimeo (c) Franco) SNAPSHOTIn the wild Sonoran desert, the greatest criminal of the Far-West suffers the wrath of a four years old child after stealing her ice cream cone. (courtesy Vimeo (c) Franco) I absolutely adore this animated short film. Discovered by disappearing one of Vimeo’s beautifully curated rabbit Continue Reading
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  • Book review: Anxious Hearts by Guy Sigley
    (courtesy Echo publishing) When you are consumed by anxiety, the kind that eats you alive in endlessly exhausting ways and turns even the simplest of moments into existential hell, can there even be room for love? That’s the question that consumes lifelong friends Kelly O’Mara and Finn aka Finely Walsh,protagonists Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing that I have never truly liked about superhero films, it’s how unrelatably inhuman so many of these heroes of our age seem to be. Oh, they try to make them seem like one of us, and to some extent they succeed, but even Continue Reading
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