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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!

Book review: Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted by Jennifer Armstrong #ValeValerieHarper

Posted on September 4, 2019September 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

The very recent death of Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff show, simply titled RHODA with wit, sass and lovable intelligence, prompted me to read finally the history of The Mary Tyler Show and how this brilliantly-clever, very funny and heartfelt Continue Reading

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Movie review: Animals

Posted on September 4, 2019September 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

Hollywood likes neat endings, largely because, I suspect, people, the ones who puts bums on seats in cinemas, are also rather enamoured of them. It makes sense that we are so enraptured – life is gloriously messy and full of frayed ends, and try as we might to tie everything Continue Reading

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When you don’t fit in, stand tall: The challenges of being Tall Girl

Posted on September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTJodi (Ava Michelle) has always been the tallest girl in school — and she’s always been uncomfortable with it. After slouching her way through life for 16 years and being made fun of by classmates, Jodi meets Stig (Luke Eisner), a seemingly perfect Swedish foreign exchange student who’s even taller Continue Reading

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Retro movie review: UP (10th anniversary)

Posted on September 3, 2019August 26, 2019 by aussiemoose

Human beings love dreams. Not the kind that litter our sleep like so much psychedelic, nonsensical candy (though they do hold a certain attraction) but the ones that hold out hope that beyond the banal humdrum of life, true excitement and adventure awaits if only x, y or z plan Continue Reading

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Book review: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Posted on September 2, 2019September 2, 2019 by aussiemoose

One of the great gifts of of being alive is when something small and unexpected becomes something altogether toweringly transformational, changing life for the better in a thousand different fundamental ways. It makes even more of an impact when this great change emerges from something calamitous or dark, such as Continue Reading

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We Didn’t Ask For This: Sometimes the fight comes to you (cover reveal)

Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTCentral International School’s annual lock-in is legendary. Bonds are made. Contests are fought. Stories are forged that will be passed down from student to student for years to come. This year’s lock-in begins normally enough. Then a group of students led by Marisa Cuevas stage an ecoprotest and chain themselves Continue Reading

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A trio of trailers: Archibald’s Next Big Thing, Perfect Harmony, Lady and the Tramp

Posted on September 1, 2019August 28, 2019 by aussiemoose

Here’s the thing. I love TV – I love watching my favourite programs and taking in as many new ones as I can. And yet time is against me as I try to juggle watching TV, reading books, seeing movies and reading graphic novels … and doing life (my boyfriend Continue Reading

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Book review: Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

Posted on September 1, 2019August 30, 2019 by aussiemoose

Growing up isn’t easy. But this feat of transitioning into adulthood from childhood is made all the more complicated when you have your feet in multiple worlds, none of which really seem to go together. Darius Kellner, an Iranian-American 16-year-old from Portland who’s obsessed with tea-making, Star Trek and Lord Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Farewell

Posted on August 31, 2019August 29, 2019 by aussiemoose

Saying a final goodbye to the one you love the most is never, ever easy. It’s made infinitely more sorrowful if you can’t say goodbye at all, or if, as in the case of the Lulu Wang-written and directed film, The Farewell, if the person you are farewelling isn’t even Continue Reading

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The past is the present: Welcome to A Very Brady Renovation

Posted on August 31, 2019August 27, 2019 by aussiemoose

SHAPSHOTA Very Brady Renovation is coming to the network, and it’s not just any old home renovation show. After the actual house used for exterior shots on The Brady Bunch went up for sale in early 2018, HGTV managed to outbid Lance Bass for the house and got the actual Continue Reading

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  • Retro Christmas movie review: Haul Out the Holly
    (courtesy IMDb) There’s a strange disconnect that can emerge when you’re consuming festively themed pop culture – for instance, you might be perfectly fine with reading endlessly escapist, coincidence-full rom-com novels but find their Hallmark equivalents to be a Christmassy bridge too far. You know there’s a strange kind of Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: Alice by Christina Henry
    It’s quite the thing these days to take a classic novel as inspiration, or even an ancient one in some cases, and take it to new and exciting places that honour the original work and author but explore new territory. In many cases, it’s done brilliantly and originally well, as Continue Reading
  • The spirit of Halloween future: Teaser trailer for 2026’s Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns into mad scientist to help fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… With Continue Reading
  • Halloween retro animated movie: Coraline
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There’s often admittance by people that they are “late to the party”, as if watching or reading or whatever something long after it’s come out – or sometimes, mere weeks, such is the frantic and unforgiving pace of the modern digital age which eats its newly-released young Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: The Last Bookstore on Earth
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Any time any author decides to take a well-established genre, give it a good shake-up and reshape its form entirely is a good time. Especially when it comes one as well-trafficked as the end-of-the-world genre which has been pretty much full-to-bursting with zombies and aliens and Continue Reading
  • Halloween Family Guy special 2025: “A Little Fright Music” (review)
    (courtesy IMDb) Halloween is definitely the one festival of the year where you are fully and absolutely allowed to get your freak on, to let loose, defy assumptions and expectations … and lie to your wives about going trick or treating? Hmmmm, not sure the last one is really part Continue Reading
  • Book review: Our Life in a Day by Jamie Fewery
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Whenever we’re asked to pick the highlights for anything, whether it’s a relationship or an overseas trip or our childhood, we unerringly pick the glowingly positive high points, driven by some unspoken acknowledgement that for something to be a highlight it must have unquestionably upbeat qualities. But Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: It’s garden gnomes vs. golf club in FOREVER
    (courtesy YouTube (c) Omeleto) SNAPSHOTThe story begins in a cheerful and peaceful backyard garden, where brightly painted gnomes stand proudly among flowers and trimmed grass in quirky poses and scenarios. Bathed in sunlight and silence, their existence is static yet content. But their serene existence is disrupted when a golf Continue Reading
  • Book review: Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It is hard, if not next to impossible when you are caught down in the depths of grief and loss, and the suffocating smallness of life that often comes with it, not to feel as if there is any hope left in life. But as Continue Reading
  • Molly does her best to live up to her promise in Loot S3, E1-3 (review)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) The great joy of Loot, not just in the first three episodes of its third season but in the first two superlative seasons too, is that it is just so damn funny. Not just funny bog standard ordinary but cleverly inspired, oneliner-quoting funny, the kind of sitcom Continue Reading
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