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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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  • Cover reveal party: The Way of the Walker by Salinee Goldenberg
    (courtesy Angry Robot Books) SNAPSHOTReturn to the Thai-inspired world of Suyoram in this sharp follow up to 2024’s The Last Phi Hunter, exploring mythology, colonialism, and feminine rage. Ree is born with her eyes open to the Everpresent — a heightened awareness where Phi Hunters pull their magic and can Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Fountain of Youth
    (courtesy IMP Awards) We are a people consumed by endless wonder and curiosity. Evidence of it is everywhere if you care to look for it, but if you’re a pop culture tragic like this reviewer, you see it most often in movies and books and streaming shows where stories lean Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Good lord but swashbuckling space operatic fun is good for the too tightly tied down soul. When all the stresses and obligations of life have you feel suffocatingly pinned into a very small and ever-diminishing space, picking up a superlatively good piece of wide-ranging sci-fi Continue Reading
  • Can you rebuild love? That’s the question at the heart of quirky sci-fi film, Daniela Forever
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTGrieving the loss of his girlfriend Daniela, Nicolás (Henry Golding) is consumed by sorrow. But he sees a glimmer of hope when he’s offered a chance to participate in groundbreaking sleep therapy simulating reality. But as dream and memory blur, he must confront what healing really means—and Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Lonely Hearts Quiz League by Lauren Farnsworth
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) It has long intrigued this reviewer why it is that we love “found family” stories so much. It’s not that they don’t present a comforting and warmly lovely scenario; after all, who doesn’t love the idea of sadness, loss and crushing social isolation being countered by slowly Continue Reading
  • “It’s not about surviving. It’s about taking our home back.”  Thoughts on The Eternaut (El Eternauta)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you’ve much streaming content over the last ten years, you will be well and truly acquainted with the fact that the world is coming to a messy and inglorious end. Well, maybe not today, or tomorrow even, but imminently in some way, shape or form, and Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) There is an inestimable joy to finding your people. We all start out in life with a family into which we are born, which can either work for us or not, but along the way, if we’re lucky enough, we accumulate friends so close they become that Continue Reading
  • “Please, open the door for me …” Jurassic World: Rebirth puts the fear of dinosaurs in everyone all over again (new trailer + poster)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind. Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion (released in Continue Reading
  • The humour and heart of humanity: Thoughts on Murderbot S1, E1-2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Watching a literary adaptation spring to life is always a fascinating exercise. Will it spring fully formed from the page like the visual manifestation of all the little films your mind inevitably feeds you as you read or will it feel like another story entirely, one that Continue Reading
  • New places to go, a new mystery to solve … Zootopia 2 releases new trailer + poster
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTZootopia 2 is directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, written by Bush, and stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, and Quinta Brunson. In the film, detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves Continue Reading
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