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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!

Still feeling Insecure? Of course you are! (season 4 trailer + poster)

Posted on March 17, 2020March 15, 2020 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTAside from the seemingly inevitable conflict between Issa and Condola, Issa and Molly’s relationship could be put to the test in Season 4. Never have the two really dated men from the same circle, and they’ve both kept those parts of their lives relatively separate from their friendship with each Continue Reading

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Book review: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry

Posted on March 16, 2020March 13, 2020 by aussiemoose

If you’re an inveterate reader, you will be well acquainted with the inestimable pleasure of losing yourself for hour upon hour in a good book. But what if instead of you diving headlong into it, the book, particularly the characters cane rushing out to meet you? That’s exactly what happens Continue Reading

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That Was Your Life: The Good Place final season review

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTThe series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a deceased young woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is welcomed by Michael (Ted Danson) to the “Good Place” in reward for her righteous life; however, she eventually discovers that Michael’s “Good Place” is a hoax, and she is actually in the “Bad Place”, Continue Reading

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A mini-mass of movie trailers: Uncorked, Lost Transmissions, Jungle Cruise

Posted on March 15, 2020March 13, 2020 by aussiemoose

We live in exceedingly weird times. With COVID-19 cutting a swathe of disruption across the globe, the issue for many cinemagoers right now, quite apart from whether you should go to a pplace of public gathering such as a cinema at all, is whether you will actually get to see Continue Reading

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Movie review: A Friendly Tale (Le bonheur des uns…) #FFF2020

Posted on March 14, 2020March 13, 2020 by aussiemoose

If a good friend of yours quietly told you that they had written a novel and were excited by this new found burst of creativity and that no less than France’s most famous writer, impressed by their talent, had encouraged them via Facebook to pursue their dream, you would be Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: The anatomically correct fun of “Cartoon Fossils”

Posted on March 14, 2020March 13, 2020 by aussiemoose

You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading

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Book review: This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

Posted on March 13, 2020March 12, 2020 by aussiemoose

Celebrity is a curious thing. While the near-omnipresence of a famous person suggests we know them intimately and well, know everything about them in fact, the truth is that we really only know what they and their publicity team choose to reveal. It’s a carefully-constructed facade that, if you dig Continue Reading

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Come fly the silent skies … Emily Blunt premieres her super-shhhh new A Quiet Place airline

Posted on March 13, 2020March 14, 2020 by aussiemoose

We’ve all been there. You get on a flight, happy to have a brief friendly nod and inconsequential quick chat with your seatmates before settling into reading a good book as you wing your way to your destination. But it rarely works out that sweetly; noise is everywhere, people are Continue Reading

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A terrific trio of TV trailers: The Third Day, Unorthodox, The Undoing

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

This edition’s trailers tend towards the serious side of the storytelling spectrum and look brilliantly compelling because of it. The series centre on the known and the unknown, offering proof that life moves in mysterious and often troubling ways and figuring out what has gone wrong and if there is Continue Reading

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How do spiders stay cool in summer? Lucas the Spider wants to know

Posted on March 11, 2020March 10, 2020 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTOh boy, it sure is hot outside! How does a spider keep cool in the summer? (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It’s not technically summer anywhere in our COVID-19 blighted world right now. The Southern Hemisphere has bid the season farewell while the Northern Hemisphere is eagerly looking forward to things Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“The end of the world was just the beginning.” 🛩️ Set in Colorado after the world’s population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #138: Lady Gaga + Doechii, Nelly Furtado, Hyd, Robyn and Marley Wildthing + EXTRA! Toy Story 5 song by Taylor Swift
    (via Shutterstock) It’s a heady mix of the old and the new this time around with three artists I have long loved, admired and listened to, and two relative newbies on the block who are well and truly making their mark on the musical landscape. It’s a thrill listening to Continue Reading
  • “Make a choice: your friend or this organisation.”  Trailer drops for Ride or Die series
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTRide or Die is a comedy series following the best friends Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) and Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a Continue Reading
  • Deep TBR June book review: Gus and the Missing Boy by Troy Hunter
    (courtesy Wakefield Press) Growing up, it’s often well nigh impossible to feel comfortable in your own skin. Things are changing fast, and figuring which way is up or down emotionally, socially and in a thousand other hugely challenging ways, becomes the stuff of exhausting everyday coming-of-age parkour-ing. It’s not as Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Lightfall (Book 4): A Place Between by Tim Probert
    (courtesy Harper Collins Australia) I cannot begin to express how much I’d love the storytelling brilliance and imaginative bravery of Tim Probert’s darkly warm and beautiful Lightfall series. Now four instalments in with the release of Lightfall: A Place Between, which follows from The Girl and the Galdurian (book #1), Continue Reading
  • “Three makes it a murder mystery!” Is there a killer Among Us?
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAmong Us follows a premise similar to that of the original video game from 2018. A crew team aboard the spaceship The Skeld discovers there is an alien shapeshifter who plans to cause chaos, sabotage the ship, and kill each member. Thus, the Crewmates must find out Continue Reading
  • It’s coming in HOT! Ice Age: Boiling Point fries up a sizzlingly funny teaser trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Ice Age: Boiling Point is an upcoming American animated adventure comedy film directed by John C. Donkin. It is the sixth main installment in the Ice Age film series following Collision Course (2016), and the seventh Ice Age feature film overall. The film features Ray Romano, Denis Continue Reading
  • Deep TBR June book review: Love Overdue by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) Romcom detractors, and honestly who stole your rose-eyed, happily romantic hearts and replaced with them stones, will tell you that once you’ve read one story in the story, you’ve read them all. But that dismissive assessment of an entire genre completely ignored the fact that Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Masters of the Universe
    (courtesy IMP Awards) The 21st century is not exactly a laughfest of goofy silliness. That’s been obvious for quite some time but when you compare it to the ’70s and ’80s when all kinds of fabulous strangeness was not only play but exuberantly celebrated, it feels very grim and serious Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #137: Emei, METTE, MARIS, Scratching + Holly Humberstone
    (via Shutterstock) Can a danceable song really speak to your heart? Damn straight it can and here are five artists who really give substance to the idea that your music can have really bounce and vibrancy to it and yet have you feeling all of the deep and sometimes painful Continue Reading
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