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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!

Songs, songs and more songs #1: Methyl Ethel, Touch Sensitive, Kinder, Ellie Goulding, Joji

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by aussiemoose

A new year and after five years of rapturously and emphatically-declaring “Now this is music” – meet me in person and you’ll understand why that is; I am an extrovert and prone to being fulsomely enthusiastic – I’ve decided it is high time for a musical change. So I present Continue Reading

Posted In Music

Come with me to A Place Called Slaughter Race!

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by aussiemoose

One of the great delights of Ralph Breaks the Internet, of which there are many, is a musical number that takes place after Vanellope, who finds herself beguiled rather than repulsed by the many life-changing possibilities of the Internet (Ralph, by way of contrast, just wants to go home), sings Continue Reading

Posted In Animation, Movies

It’s time to NOT put on make-up: The Muppet Show without the muppets

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT A little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Continue Reading

Posted In TV

Dare to Dream with this Eurovision 2019 update: Logo + interval acts

Posted on January 16, 2019January 14, 2019 by aussiemoose

You may be asking yourself right now – “Did we not just witness Israel’s fabulously-funky Netta win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? How we can be closer to 2019’s event than the one just gone?” Time, my friends, time and it’s already racing ahead to May this year when the Continue Reading

Posted In Music, TVTagged In Eurovision 2019

Movie review: Bird Box

Posted on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by aussiemoose

When you really stop to think about how utterly life-changing and disruptive to a fatal degree the apocalypse would be, the first thing that comes to mind is how utterly shock-inducing it would be. One minute, Western civilisation stands proud and strong, and with it, your small, comfortable sliver of Continue Reading

Posted In Movies

Winter has well and truly come: Game of Thrones evocative S8 teaser trailer

Posted on January 15, 2019January 14, 2019 by aussiemoose

Winter has well and truly come in Game of Thrones in the gripping teaser trailer. In the evocative, and let’s be honest, creepy crypts beneath Winterfell, which will be one of the first places to feel the icy touch of the White Walkers and their leader, the Night King, we Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In Game of Thrones

Book review: The Best Version of Me by Guy Sigley

Posted on January 13, 2019January 14, 2019 by aussiemoose

Barney Conroy, a man who never met a confrontation-avoiding lie he didn’t like, who always chose complicated cover-ups over the simplest and easiest of responses to any given situation and who yet somehow ended up with the love of his life, Gloria, and a delightfully-sweet daughter Emily, is back as Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: Down beneath the waves with Jonas and the Sea

Posted on January 13, 2019January 11, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT Jonas has dreamed of living in the sea all his life. But it’s not possible. Or is it? (synopsis via Vimeo) There is such delight and whimsicality in this breathtakingly-beautiful piece of animation that you scarcely know where to begin. In Jonas and the Sea, directed and animated by Marlies Continue Reading

Posted In Movies

Io: When Earth becomes just another toxic relationship

Posted on January 12, 2019January 10, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT Sam (Margaret Qualley), one of the last survivors on a post-cataclysmic Earth, is a young scientist dedicated to finding a way for humans to adapt and survive, rather than abandon their world. But with the final shuttle scheduled to leave the planet for a distant colony, her determination to Continue Reading

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Finally watched … the return season of Murphy Brown

Posted on January 12, 2019January 11, 2019 by aussiemoose

Can you ever really go back? It’s an existentially-loaded question which confronts anyone who tries to return to something, somewhere or someone they once loved, and it’s one which doesn’t always have the happiest of answers following in its wake. One arena in which this particularly-loaded nostalgia-laden query has been Continue Reading

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  • The rest of the season … Murders in the Building S5, E6-10
    (courtesy IMP Awards) While Only Murders in the Building is all about getting to the bottom of the titular murderous mystery, and that indeed happens in the final four episodes of this wonderful show’s fifth season, what has always made it compelling viewing is the way it focuses on the Continue Reading
  • Happy 40th release anniversary: Back to the Future #AndyAt60
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Sticking classic movies back in the cinema has become quite the cinematic catnip for those of us who saw the originals way back in the day when they weren’t confined solely to small streaming screens and home theatre systems. While we’ve all become accustomed, for better or Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) A creatively outrageous premise is nothing new in storytelling; the very best narratives in the hands of masterful writers thrive on them and well executed, they can elevate a story in a trope-heavy genre into something magically alive and vivaciously original. Case very much in point Continue Reading
  • He’s found a new home … Paddington the Musical
    (courtesy Paddington the Musical) Is there such a thing as too much Paddington Bear? Well, of course not, what a very strange thing to even contemplate! The truth is we can never have enough of Michael Bond’s wondrously sweet and insightful creation who has found heartwarming expression in 29 books Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Predator: Badlands
    (courtesy IMP Awards) When you’re a pop culture junkie, one of the most satisfying things imaginable is when a threadbare but entertaining franchise embarks, sometimes decades in the making, on super substantial world-building and elaborate exposition, enlarging and enriching its storytelling in the process. It can take a franchise that Continue Reading
  • Book review: Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) There’s a good reason the enemies-to-love trope is so prevalent in romantic literature. While we all accept on some level that not everyone will like us and that conflict is all inevitable despite our best efforts, there’s a deep-rooted part of us that wants to believe Continue Reading
  • Sunny days are back again for Sesame Street as it debuts on its new home
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT‘Season 56 reimagines Sesame Street, inviting children into the action and bringing them hand-in-hand through high-stakes stories, powerful learning moments, and laugh-out-loud surprises. And, as always, Sesame Street’s curriculum is designed to meet children’s most pressing needs — so our focus this season is on kindness and Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) It will surprise precisely no one that relationships are HARD. But, asks Nobody Wants This in its brilliant second season, does it have to be this hard? Exactly what level of hard is acceptable sits out in the landscape of the nebulous and oblique and one of Continue Reading
  • Book review: Frankie by J. M. Gutsch and Maxim Leo
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever travelled through the valley of the shadow of death of grief – and yes, that is some prime-grade Psalms-level language there but being plunged into grief often feels quite Biblical – you will know that it feels like it is sucking all Continue Reading
  • 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
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