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Book review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Posted on June 25, 2023July 29, 2023 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Grove Atlantic) Preview copy provided by NetGalley; Orbital releases 2 November 2023. You imagine that orbiting the earth must be something akin to watching the world’s greatest, most expansive documentary unfolding before you (narrated, of course, by Sir David Attenborough because who else would work in this, or any, Continue Reading

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Weekend movie character poster art – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One

Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 by aussiemoose

Tom Cruise (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the Continue Reading

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    (via Shutterstock) Eclectism is the stuff of a rich and full life. Well, for this reviewer anyway; while I do have my favourite genres, I also loving mixing it up whenever I can with my movie consumption leaping from rom-coms to animation to serious drama to sci-fi, sometimes in the Continue Reading
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