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More than just toys: How Toy Story beautifully explores issues of abandonment (video essay)

Posted on June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 by aussiemoose

No one likes to be abandoned or neglected. It cuts to the very core of our self-worth and lovability and the even the prospect of it, quite understandably, leaves us quaking in our existential boots. The same goes for the toys of Pixar’s Toy Story series, says Isaac of The Continue Reading

Posted In Animation, MoviesTagged In Pixar

Comics review: Check, Please! (Book #1: #Hockey) by Ngozi Ukazu

Posted on June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 by aussiemoose

If you have even one romantic bone in your body, and I’m guessing there must be than one unless your heart is concrete and your soul solid granite, put aside any notions that you have looking at the cover of Check, Please! (Book #1: #Hockey) by the supremely-talented Ngozi Ukazu. Continue Reading

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A mass of movie trailers: Ad Astra, After the Wedding, Plus One, Trolls World Tour, Under the Silver Lake

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

Movies! Movies! Movies! Fortunately for a cinephile like myself, they never stop but keeping up with the neverending cascade of trailers can take a lot of time and effort, and were I to put them all on the blog, more site real estate than I could afford, and frankly that Continue Reading

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Book review: While You Were Reading by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus

Posted on June 29, 2019June 28, 2019 by aussiemoose

Have you ever made a titanically bad life decision, the kind for which there is no reasonable response, other than to run for the hills and tried to pretend that barn burner of a life-changing incident never happened? Beatrix Babbage has; after an accidental confession lays her best friend Cassandra’s Continue Reading

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Movie review: Yesterday

Posted on June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 by aussiemoose

At what point do you give up on a dream, one that has sustained you through dead end jobs, living at home with your parents, a rolling tumbleweed of a romantic life and a general sense of early promise unfulfilled? That’s the great dilemma facing Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), who Continue Reading

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Songs, songs and more songs #10: BANKS, Sigrid, MXMS, Olivia O’Brien, Holy Ghost!

Posted on June 28, 2019December 6, 2019 by aussiemoose

One of the great joys of life is listening to music that you really love. I mean really, REALLY love. Each month I listen to a lot of new music, and while I like pretty much all of it, not all of it really gets down into the very depths Continue Reading

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Book review:The Lady From the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara

Posted on June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 by aussiemoose

History can be cruel. A person can stand, deservedly or not, atop the passing colossus of time, full as it is of flimsy whims and fickle fortunes, as if they were and are always meant to be there, and then a scant generation later, they are nothing but a footnote Continue Reading

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Weekday movie poster art: Toy Story 4

Posted on June 26, 2019June 24, 2019 by aussiemoose

I love movie posters and I love and adore the Toy Story series of films, the latest of which Toy Story 4 is a brilliantly-worthy addition to films 1, 2 and 3, and so, the creation of posters by a group of artists celebrating what I would argue is Pixar’s Continue Reading

Posted In Animation, MoviesTagged In Pixar

Fear the Walking Dead: “Skidmark” (S5, E4 review)

Posted on June 25, 2019August 19, 2020 by aussiemoose

SPOILERS AHEAD … AND CLEVER CATS, BURNT-OUT PLANES AND INTERESTING NEW FRIENDSHIPS … You gave got to love Daniel (Rubén Blades). A consummate survivor who has survived the very worst that the zombie apocalypse, and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) for that matter, can throw at him, Daniel is the kind Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In Fear the Walking Dead

Some friendships are wild at heart: The enduring friendship of Animals

Posted on June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTWild, outrageous and utterly hilarious, Animals is the acclaimed new film from director Sophie Hyde based on the book of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth, featuring stunning lead performances from Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. (synopsis courtesy Jumpcut Online) At first glance, you may not think that Australian Continue Reading

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