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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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    SNAPSHOTAs a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Shazam – Fury of the Gods
    If you think about, you rarely see superheroes smile or really exult with wild abandon in what they do. Sure, you’ll see moments of quiet celebration or the exhilaration of a job well done as the Big Bad of the moment is banished into the darkness from which they first Continue Reading
  • Book review: Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
    There is a log and stories tradition of aliens invading Earth. Regardless of the medium, they usually arrive in the skies above our blue ball of life, an armada of advanced technology in terrifyingly awe inspiring form, and variously proceed to attack/enslave/pretend to help while secretly destroying us. It’s big, Continue Reading
  • Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading
  • Streaming selection 4: The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) and Shrinking (S1, E7-9)
    The Last of Us (S1, E 8-9) What matters more – the needs of the one or the needs of the many? It depends on which side of the ethical, and often emotional divide, you stand; in Star Trek: The Original Series‘s film The Wrath of Khan, Spock argues with Continue Reading
  • A mini-mass of movie trailers: The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu, Simulant and My Happy Ending
    I love movies with a huge amount of heart. They can live in any genre and plots outlandish or sweetly nuanced but they must have some real humanity front and centre, something to stir the soul and make you feel something. These three films well and and truly fit the Continue Reading
  • Book review: How to be Remembered by Michael Thompson
    It’s a talented writer indeed who can take an appealing out-there premise and invest it with so much humanity that you forget how extraordinary the bedrock narrative of the novel is, consumed only the affectingly real story with which you have been gifted. The consummately good writer in this instance Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
    Pinocchio is one of those stories that we think we know intimately and well, thanks to the 1940 Disney animated version of the book by The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (with illustrations by Gris Grimly) which has gripped the public consciousness ever since its release and which defines for many Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #83: Rose Gray, Jake Shears, Maisie Peters, Loïc Nottet and Anne-Marie + Eurovision 2023 update!
    Life is HARD. For all the ups, and they are sweet, there are plenty of downs and struggling can be everything. It helps then to have singers like the five featured here to not only help you make sense of it all, but to set their thoughts and ruminations to Continue Reading
  • Hail the Best Pictures of the year: Montage showcases all 10 nominees
    SNAPSHOTThe Best Picture nominees from 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger), Avatar: The Way of Water (directed by James Cameron), The Banshees of Inisherin (directed by Martin McDonagh), Elvis (directed by Baz Luhrmann), Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), The Fabelmans (directed by Steven Spielberg), Tár (directed by Todd Field), Top Gun: Maverick (directed by Joseph Kosinski), Triangle Continue Reading
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