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Boo! Meow! Garfield goes BOOM! with new Fall comic book special

Posted on October 7, 2018January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT In Comedy of Terrors, the fan favorite Garfield: Homecoming team of writer Scott Nickel and Antonio Alfaro reunite for a frighteningly fun Halloween tale, as a creature reaches through the television and into Jon’s living room. Luckily, Garfield is as brave as they come…oh, wait. And in The Fall Continue Reading

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Book review: The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman

Posted on October 7, 2018May 22, 2019 by aussiemoose

  We are so in love, as a species, with the admittedly very attractive idea of love that we often over-romanticise it. Decking it with roses and chocolates, viewing with rose-coloured glasses and Vaseline-tinted lenses, love is elevated as a warm-and-fuzzy ideal which can answer and make up for all Continue Reading

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Dynasties: David Attenborough and a whole lot of animal families

Posted on October 7, 2018October 6, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT From the team behind Life Story and Planet Earth II, this is an intense portrayal of the lives of these animals as they unfold, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, where the tiniest incident may end up having a huge consequence on their future. Their chances of success depend on their own Continue Reading

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Comics review: Hilda (full series of graphic novels)

Posted on October 6, 2018February 5, 2019 by aussiemoose

  It is a rare thing indeed to stumble across a character, and the world they and similarly-enchanting people and creatures inhabit, that remind you of the very best things you read when you were a child. If you’re an occasional pop culture nostalgist, someone like me who loves and Continue Reading

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Welcome to The Haunting of Hill House … you’re expected

Posted on October 6, 2018October 6, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The Haunting of Hill House is a modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s legendary novel of the same name, about five siblings who grew up in the most famous hauntedhouse in America. Now adults, they’re reunited by the suicide of their youngest sister, which forces them to finally confront Continue Reading

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Book review: It Came From the Deep by Maria Lewis

Posted on October 6, 2018May 22, 2019 by aussiemoose

  There is a particular pleasure that comes from reading a book by Maria Lewis, the happy result of the author’s singular ability to seamlessly blend the mythical and the magically real into the ordinary everyday to the point where the most outlandish of concepts suddenly seem not just possible Continue Reading

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Now this is music #114: Moses Sumney, half.alive, Wingtip, Phantastic Ferniture, Sasha

Posted on October 5, 2018October 4, 2018 by aussiemoose

  What an hilariously, alarmingly, freakishly contradictory mess life is. Were it as simple as some sections of pop culture would have us believe it is; but alas, it is not, and mired in the ups and downs, the regrets and hopes, the sadness and happiness of our lives, often Continue Reading

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Take a look at little green men in Project Blue Book

Posted on October 5, 2018October 4, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT HISTORY’s upcoming new drama series “Project Blue Book” is based on the true, Top Secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952-1969. The series is inspired by the personal experiences of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant Continue Reading

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Fear the Walking Dead: “… I Lose Myself” (S4, E16 review)

Posted on October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … KEGGERS AS A WAY TO PERSONAL SALVATION … Hands up if you know the best way to avoid dying and becoming a member of the ravenous undead in the zombie apocalypse? Don’t get caught in the middle of a zombie herd approaching from both ends of Continue Reading

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Rick and Morty get their anime on with this brilliantly-reimagined opening sequence

Posted on October 3, 2018September 18, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Suffused with a wildly-extravagant, boundless imagination, an irreverent sensibility courtesy of creators and sustainers Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon and a willingness to GO THERE, Rick and Morty is one animated series not limited by an unwillingness to try anything once. So I’d like think that Messrs Harmon and Continue Reading

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  • 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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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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    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Watching a writer’s journey is often a gloriously fascinating thing. Going from an impressive debut to successive novels that build upon actual realisation and beguiling promise, many writers go from strength-to-strength, honing their talent and their gift for evocative wordsmithing into something that leaves you breathless Continue Reading
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