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Trio o’ TV trailers: Disenchantment, Wellington Paranormal, Nightflyers

Posted on June 30, 2018June 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Oh boy do we need more TV shows! Actually in the strictest not really since, unless you’re some kind of automaton (and if you are, when’s Skynet making their move, please?), no one really has the time in Peak Glut TV for any more programs in their schedule but Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: A pop culture A to Z by Otis Frampton

Posted on June 30, 2018June 29, 2018 by aussiemoose

  I remember fondly the days of learning my ABCs, when my kindergarten teacher Miss Allen and Sesame Street jointly taught me – contentions about how to pronounce the letter “Z” aside -how to go from the beginning to the end of the alphabet (love the song!) and how to Continue Reading

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Book review: The Book Ninja by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus

Posted on June 29, 2018June 15, 2019 by aussiemoose

  I believe it was those pop sages ABBA who once intoned in one of their marvellously-attractive songs that “Love isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. A perfect mix of early ’70s folk-pop, Swedish harmonies and life truisms doesn’t feature anywhere in The Book Ninja by Ali Berg Continue Reading

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The hunt has evolved … all-new killing-happy The Predator

Posted on June 29, 2018June 28, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only Continue Reading

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Movie review: Incredibles 2

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

  Sequels occupy an odd place in the pantheon of Hollywood films, often eagerly-anticipated and existentially-dreaded in equal measure. They are usually, though not always, a response to a film making a cratering impact on the pop culture firmament, and while the studios make them because cash registers will likely Continue Reading

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It’s a Jurassic World … or is it?! A professor weighs on the accuracy of TV and movie dinosaurs

Posted on June 27, 2018June 25, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Like many other people, I have long held a fascination for dinosaurs of all shapes and stripes. Doesn’t matter if its Stegosaurus or T-Rex, Velociraptor or a plesiosaur, dinosaurs captured my imagination very early on, and to my very adult joy, haven’t loosened their hold at all in the Continue Reading

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Colony: “Lazarus” (S3, E8 review)

Posted on June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS DUPLICITY, ARROGANCE AND SOME UNNERVINGLY OPAQUE AGENDAS So how’s that whole Seattle as the promised land of post-grief/current-grief/no one is talking about the grief living going there Bowmans? I mean Daltons? Ah whatever the hell you’re calling yourself today. Not so great, I’d Continue Reading

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HBO is hoping you won’t avoid these Sharp Objects

Posted on June 26, 2018June 24, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The limited series’ chilling new trailer follows journalist Camille Preaker (Adams) as she returns to her hometown to cover the story of two murdered young girls. (synopsis (c) Paste Magazine) You know how small towns are supposed to be warm, cosy bastions of love, acceptance and a surfeit Continue Reading

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Retro movie review: The Incredibles

Posted on June 23, 2018June 22, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Being a superhero is, for the most part, a grimly singular endeavour. Sure, Marvel’s crop of cinematically-popular fighters of evil and catastrophe such as Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man and the like come together when needed as The Avengers, and even Batman, Superman and a cameo-like Wonder Woman have Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Reading books made quick and easy with abridged illustrations

Posted on June 23, 2018May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  I love reading books. Losing myself in books, long and short, big and small, has been a passion of time since I can remember but even I have to admit it’s well near impossible to read everything (not that I don’t give it a red hot go!). Riding to Continue Reading

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  • Christmas 2025 movie preview: The Baltimorons
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTOn Christmas Eve, Cliff (starring Michael Strassner who also co-wrote the script), a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi (Liz Larsen), an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparks an unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together, Continue Reading
  • Step into your future: Starfleet Academy teaser trailer drops at SDCC 2025
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe series is set in the 32nd century, the far-future of the Star Trek franchise where Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets are recovering from a cataclysmic event, as depicted in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024). Starfleet Academy follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over Continue Reading
  • “You think you’re in control of this… You’re not.” The electric second full trailer for Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) When you’re diving into a festive rom-com read, you hope and pray that you’ll be served up lashings of magical romance and renewal and healing in bountiful measure. That’s precise you get in the magnificently heartwarming joy and wonder that is Christmas is All Around by Martha Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly retro movie review: Christmas in July
    A lot can happen in just one day! Just ask Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), the protagonist of the 1940 Preston Sturges film, Christmas in July, who’s a grunt office worker from a working class neighbourhood of New York City who heads off to his menial day job in an office Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Who doesn’t adore a good love story? Even better, one set at Christmas when everything is at a peak of wonderfulness, magic is in the air and anything and everything seems possible (bar finding a parking spot at the locla mall but then, that’s a whole other Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Most superhero movies, if you look beyond the bangs and the booms and the epic struggles for curdely painted yet titanic struggles between god and evil, are about connection. Friendship, camaraderies, even family figure strongly, even with figures like Batman or Iron Man who might otehrwise be Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #126: Sally Shapiro, Parcels, Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams, Juno Mamba & edapollo + Tiësto/Odd Mob & Goodboys
    (via Shutterstock) Making music is, like a lot of creative endeavours, driven by individual talent and imagination. But often where the magic really happens is when likeminded, talented souls come together and in this case at least, literally make sweet music together. It’s a thrill to see and a joy Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: William of Newbury by Michael Avon Oeming
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Fascinating though it may be for past events junkies like this reviewer, history doesn’t come alive for everyone. It’s a real pity because not only is delving into the annals of history brilliantly interesting but it ensures, as the adage reminds us, that we are familiar Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti book #2) by Malka Older
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading
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