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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!

The short and the short of it: The Looking Planet

Posted on August 27, 2017August 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT This CGI 3D Animated Short Film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Continue Reading

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El Patito: Sesame Street parodies Despacito in the sweetest Ernie and Rubber Ducky way

Posted on August 26, 2017August 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Ah ubiquity you are a double-edged sword. In the case of the catchiest song of the US summer, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee), that means lots of airplay, remixes without count and the constant presence of the song on just about platform imaginable. It also means, Sesame Continue Reading

Posted In Music, TVTagged In Sesame Street

Movie review: Logan Lucky

Posted on August 26, 2017August 26, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If you’re a good law-abiding member of society, and let’s face it, that’s most of us, there’s a great big give-a-finger-to-the-law visceral thrill in watching people that are not you embark on a life of crime. Much like apocalypse movies (my takeout food is here; now I shall watch Continue Reading

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How should Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have ended? Here’s how!

Posted on August 26, 2017August 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading

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Ring Ring to The Visitors: My top 50 ABBA songs

Posted on August 25, 2017September 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Hi everyone! I’m Andrew, and I’ve been an ABBA fan since somewhere around 1975-ish (date is murky – blame my failing memory!). I grew up in a small town, Alstonville, just south of Byron Bay, far enough from major cities to not really be country but so far away Continue Reading

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Hello man’s best friend: Go way WAY back with Alpha

Posted on August 25, 2017August 21, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone — he must learn to survive and navigate Continue Reading

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Game of Thrones: “Beyond the Wall” (S7, E6 review)

Posted on August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LOVELY RELAXED WALK THROUGH THE SNOW … THEN RUNNING, LOTS OF RUNNING … THEN FIRE … THEN … YOU KNOW, LET’S JUST STAY HOME SHALL WE? With Lee Marvin nowhere in sight and not a samurai to be seen, Jon Snow led six intrepid Continue Reading

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Back to a different future: The Jetsons get an emotionally-gritty DC Comics makeover

Posted on August 23, 2017August 21, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Following the recent trend to give much-loved Hanna-Barbera a bright, sparkly new leg-up into the current pop culture firmament, which has includes Scooby Doo, Wacky Races and The Flintstones, DC Comics has now turned its attention to The Jetsons. Presented at the time as the future equivalent of The Continue Reading

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Chewing Gum: Tracey’s humorously messy take on life

Posted on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Chewing Gum is quirky. Undeniably, hilariously, off-the-wall quirky. But what it also is, and this stops it from becoming a one-trick comedy pony with nothing but quirk to its quirky name, is that it has enough heart-and-soul to fill a few dramas three times as delightfully earnest. The loosely-autobiographical Continue Reading

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Even more Euphoria: Eurovision Asia launches

Posted on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  And so it begins … Eurovision is coming to Asia! While a launch date and an exact format are yet to be determined, the launch of the official site for the Asian outpost of the great Eurovision Song Contest (brand leveraging here we come!) signals that things are moving Continue Reading

Posted In MusicTagged In Eurovision

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  • It’s time for a closer look at the unsettling mystery of The Boroughs
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If you have even a modicum of self awareness and personal integrity, the idea of pretending to be something you’re not often doesn’t sit well with you. The only way you can live with a fake persona and your real self sitting cheek-by-jowl is to Continue Reading
  • There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood
    (courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Sheep Detectives
    (courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading
  • Hollywood and its history is conquered in the latest Minions & Monsters trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Hollywood has a monster problem.” 🦑 🍌 Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, Despicable Me 4, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous new chapter, featuring all-new characters, in the biggest global animated franchise: Minions & Monsters. This is the Continue Reading
  • Documentary review: A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough #Happy100thDA
    (courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) When you have been alive for 100 years – happy birthday Sir David Attenborough once again! – and you’ve been filming for the greater part of that impressive lifespan, the odds are that there is more to find out about some of the memorable scenes you Continue Reading
  • From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100 (curated article) #Happy100thDA
    (courtesy The Conversation / BBC, CC BY-NC-ND) Article by Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University (via The Conversation) Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this week. Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve Continue Reading
  • A lifetime of service to the natural world – and those who love it: Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! #Happy100thDA
    One of the great and much-loved constants of my life has been the presence of Sir David Attenborough in many of the natural world documentaries I have watched and have come to love. A man who clearly loves, champions and advocates for his very precious subject matter, who possesses a Continue Reading
  • Movie review catch-up: Suncoast
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Growing up, and especially starting on the transition to adulthood, is never an easy thing at the best of times, but when you’re life is not “normal”, not even close to it, (and that’s leaving aside the fact that the very idea of normal is a rubbery Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
    As a reviewer who knows a metric ton of books in a year, I have come across a few “second chances” books in my time, stories which ask what might happen if socially isolated or broken people burdened by past mistakes were given the opportunity to remake their lives (deliberately Continue Reading
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