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Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 6 – San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Ukraine

Posted on April 24, 2018May 9, 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

Posted In Music, TVTagged In Eurovision 2018

Fast bullets and a really serious bad guy: Deadpool 2 drops its final trailer

Posted on April 24, 2018April 20, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SHAPSHOT Deadpool forming a team of mercenaries and mutants to protect a mysterious kid (Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison) from the arrival of a hardass cyborg from the future, Thanos. (synopsis (c) io9) Ladies and gentleman behold – the Merc With the Mouth aka Wade Wilson aka Deadpool Continue Reading

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Telltale signs: You know it’s a Wes Anderson film if …

Posted on April 22, 2018April 20, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT You know you’re watching a Wes Anderson film if there’s a rich micro world with a focus on art direction. Wes Anderson’s films have become synonymous with unique and idiosyncratic production design that makes us feel we’ve entered inside a human dollhouse. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I have Continue Reading

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Book review: Scales of Empire (Dragon Empire Trilogy #1) by Kylie Chan

Posted on April 22, 2018June 15, 2019 by aussiemoose

  First Contact in science fiction storytelling is normally an eminently serious undertaking, with the meeting of alien and human usually presaging some great generation-defining moment that may be good or bad but is never less than gravely portentous. In Kylie Chan’s Scales of Empire, a sci-fi novel and the Continue Reading

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Big risks and taxi fares: John Boyega interviewed on The Feed

Posted on April 22, 2018April 20, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Go hard or go home is a mantra beloved by many, a rallying cry to give something everything you’ve got or not bother at all. Pretty inspiring stuff right? Well yes, but as John Boyega, star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Pacific Rim: Uprising explains with down Continue Reading

Posted In Movies, TVTagged In Star Wars

Jasmine the greyhound and the healing power of a gentle soul

Posted on April 21, 2018April 19, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In 2015, The Feeln Network posted a beautiful animation that told the amazing story of Jasmine the greyhound. In 2003, police in Warwickshire, West Midlands England came upon a locked barn from where they heard the pitiful whimpering of a young greyhound who had been abandoned and starved. Continue Reading

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Comics review: Atlas & Axis

Posted on April 21, 2018February 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

  One of the things I have long-loved about the European style of storytelling, and the reason why I have consumed everything from Agaton Sax and the Moomins as a child through to The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery as an adult, is that it is not afraid Continue Reading

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Psycho in space: Nightflyers is one ship you don’t want to hitch a ride on

Posted on April 21, 2018April 19, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tightknit crew and a reclusive captain – in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when Continue Reading

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Movie review: Rampage

Posted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 by aussiemoose

  There was a time when blockbusters had the power to not only thrill and awe us, but to move us as well, an intoxicating mix that saw films like Die Hard, Independence Day and even Alien/s and Terminator not only clean up at the box office, but find a Continue Reading

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You DRINK coffee? Amateur! 1967 Cookie Monster EATS the machine that makes it

Posted on April 20, 2018April 16, 2018 by aussiemoose

  You can’t miss the fact that Cookie Monster, by sheer dint of name alone, loves cookies. And who can blame him? They’re freaking delicious! But coffee? Or more precisely, coffee machines? In this hilarious IBM promotional film from 1967, Cookie Monster goes to town on a very chatty coffee Continue Reading

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  • The darkness and violence of absolute power made manifest: Thoughts on Andor S2, E7-9
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There is a fearful moment when something known only in the abstract, but horrific even so, suddenly becomes real, takes manifest palpable form and you are unable to pretend even for a second that within humanity lies the kernel for great evil if so nurtured. (Thankfully, great Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Thunderbolts*
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Once as close to a sure thing as any blockbuster can be, Marvel’s prodigious output of epic superhero storytelling has stumbled more often than not over the last few years, offering up films that felt they were mere Xeroxes of the studio’s previous glories which, if you Continue Reading
  • Book review: Letters to our Robot Son by Cadance Bell
    (courtesy Ultimo Press) I know, I know, I KNOW that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover (unless you’re part of a publishing company’s marketing team in which case that’s all you want to do). BUT, and in the case of Letters to our Robot Son by Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: I Heart Skull-Crusher! by Campbell/Zonno/De Santiago
    (courtesy BOOM! STUDIOS) SNAPSHOT18-year-old Trini will do anything to compete in her favorite sport, Screaming Pain Ball, aspiring to the heights of her longtime hero Skull-Crusher! But she can’t do it alone, and a gaggle of misfits is just what she needs to cross the American wastes and battle in Continue Reading
  • “Let’s keep our distance… because someday, I’ll be flying off to space.” The push-and-pull of love in Lost in Starlight
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT“Don’t forget. Out here in space, there’s someone who’s always rooting for you.” In 2050 Seoul, astronaut Nan-young’s ultimate life goal is to visit Mars. ✨ But she fails the final test to onboard the fourth Mars Expedition Project. The musician Jay buries his dreams in a Continue Reading
  • Book review: Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells
    (courtesy Tor Publishing Group) There have been more than a few stories of artificial lifeforms who have ended up being considerably more human than their creators. But is there anyone more human than the eponymous protagonist of this marvellous series by Martha Wells, a robot created to enforce, with extreme Continue Reading
  • “If it goes up in flames?” “It will burn”: Andor S2, E4-6 review
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor is a superlatively impressive show on all kinds of levels but where it is really excelling in this humble reviewer’s opinion is the way in which it is deconstructing a host of romantic myths about what it means to be standing in defiant opposition Continue Reading
  • Dance your pain away with Mon Montha #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou #Andor
    (image courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor, now four episodes into its second season, is a remarkable show in many ways. But one of the things that really sets it apart is the sheer raw humanity of many of the characters, best exemplified in the third episode, “Harvest”, where a Continue Reading
  • Road to Eurovision 2025 – Week 6 – Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia (semi-final 2, part 3)
    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 to Continue Reading
  • “I’m starting to think I am better at being in the closet.” Full trailer for Overcompensating
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA24 and MGM’s Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny, a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Continue Reading
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