As anyone who has ever experienced great loss will tell you – grief does not take a holiday. When you are wrapped in its necessary but deadening hold, it’s hard to remember that there was a time when you laughed, when you simply let yourself relax and be, and when, Continue Reading
aussiemoose
I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Mini mass of animated movie trailers: Sing 2, Even Mice Belong in Heaven, Back to the Outback
My inner child is delighted. There’s a slew of brightly-coloured, cute and sweet, not to mention very funny and heartfelt animated features coming the world’s way, all guaranteed to make things better after another tough year in the bowels of the COVID pandemic. Happily, one of the three is Sing Continue Reading
Book review: Miss Treadway & the Fields of Stars by Miranda Emmerson
Those jarring sounds you hear as you dive deeper and deeper into the emotionally complex but thoughtful accessible novel Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson are illusions being comprehensively and almost irretrievably shattered. In the world of 1965 London, smack bang in the middle of the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #59: Child of the Parish, Little Boots, Annie, Akurei, Glass Animals + thoughts on #ABBA “Voyage”
COVID has done a number on us. We know it, our friends and family know it, and while I could be ascribing more sentience that is deserved, the virus knows it too. As we climb our way tentatively out of the hole the pandemic has dug for us, and start Continue Reading
World Beyond: “Quatervois” and “Who Are You?” (S2, E 5 & 6 review) / Fear the Walking Dead: “Cindy Hawkins” and “Breathe With Me” (S7, E 3 & 4 review)
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND SPOILERS AHEAD … SNEAKING AROUND, ESPIONAGE AND BLACKOUTS AT PRECISELY THE RIGHT, AND WRONG, MOMENTS … Operation take down the CRM is in full swing in Quatervois” and “Who Are You?” which sees a plan to bust-em-outta-twisted-utopia quickly morph into “taking down the man!” thanks Continue Reading
The brilliance of Ted Lasso and the written word + interviews with the show’s stars
SNAPSHOTTed Lasso allows the absurdity of the characters to play out in front of us and allows characters to make contained logical choices and see it actually played out in the reality the show has created…Lasso’s writers are very economical about how and what they write and don’t let anything Continue Reading
Movie review: Eternals
Apart from their obvious love of a stupendously over the top action finales and stakes so epic the fate of the world repeatedly hangs in the balance, the one thing you can say about a Marvel Studios film is they have a strong moral centre. There is right and there Continue Reading
Book review: Freckles by Cecilia Ahern
At the heart of every one of us is this insistent need to belong, to fit in, to be unconditionally cared for, loved and part of something that extends far beyond ourselves. It’s understandable; we are social creatures who have evolved to always be in concert with others, to find Continue Reading
What the world needs now … Station Eleven drops evocative trailer
SNAPSHOTBased on the book of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven is set before and after a fictional flu pandemic. The inhabitants try to rebuild their world while holding onto the best of what they lost. (synopsis via nine.com.au) If watching the teaser trailer for HBO Continue Reading
Movie review: Finch
You know those films that slowly but surely, and in the most authentic, intimately human of ways grab hold of your heart, bring it close and then pull it out of your heart until you’re an aching, weeping mess? Finch is one of those films. Heart-rendingly, beautifully, wonderfully so, and Continue Reading