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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!

Rollin’ France: An hilarious animated look at a world where animals are round

Posted on June 27, 2017June 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  You’ve seen Rollin’ Safari – and if you have not, why not, here’s the link, remedy this immediately if not sooner – and now the people who brought this imaginative and damn funny animated conjecturing on what a world of round animals would look like, Kyra Buschor and Constantin Päplow from Continue Reading

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Weekend poster art: The Little Hours get medievally saucy

Posted on June 25, 2017June 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The film stars Franco as a servant in the Middle Ages who flees the clutches of his oppressive master (Nick Offerman), ultimately taking up residence with a convent of wild nuns (Plaza, Shannon, Brie, Micucci) in the campy interpretation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century work The Decameron  (synopsis via Continue Reading

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Sesame Street: Whoopi Goldberg and Elmo Draw Picture for Pen Pal in Syria

Posted on June 25, 2017June 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Elmo wants to cheer up his friend Laila from Syria—so he decides to draw her a picture. Millions of children like Laila are missing out on education and need our help. (synopsis via YouTube) Though it is justifiably known and lauded for its brilliant work as a worldwide Continue Reading

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The Librarians: Saving the world, one comic book at a time

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

  SNAPSHOT Way back in the swinging ‘70s, movie producer Sol Schick was the guy behind such cheesy classics as Quarry: Bigfoot!, Noah’s Ark: Found at Last! and Heavenly Visitors from the Hell Above. But when he’s murdered – at a film festival! – with a piece of Noah’s Ark! Continue Reading

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Book review: Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Posted on June 24, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  However you choose to play it, life has a way of constantly mixing it up, turning the tables when you least expect it, reversing roles, and exposing the richness or paucity of your character when you least expect it. We all know this on some level, and yet whenever Continue Reading

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Avast ye scurvy Jack Sparrow-loving scoundrels! Here’s the emoji Pirates of the Caribbean

Posted on June 24, 2017June 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  I am a huge fan of emojis. Unlike most 51 year olds, my texts, tweets and Facebook posts are littered with a profusion of the very cute pictograms, and frankly, if I could have them pop up around me while I walked and talked, I would. So it makes Continue Reading

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Movie review: Kedi

Posted on June 24, 2017June 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Much like the cats who form its physical and emotional centrepiece, it is all too easy to underestimate the power of Kedi, a film which provides us with an unexpectedly moving account of the stray cats of Istanbul and the many people who interact with them on a daily Continue Reading

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Now this is music #91: Fare Soldi, HAEVN, Goldmyth, LAUV, Tyzo Bloom

Posted on June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Stop right there! Yes … YOU. I know modern life is busy af and slowing down seems like anathema, the desperate beats of FOMO drumming mercilessly through every thought and feeling, but there is a real joy and reward in taking a few steps back, finding a seat somewhere Continue Reading

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Winter is here – and so is a fearsome new Game of Thrones S7 trailer and posters

Posted on June 23, 2017June 22, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT At the end of season 6 Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) dragons and her immense army were finally on the way to Westeros, where Cersei (Lena Headey) has now become Queen after the death of her children. The Night King’s (Vladimir Furdik in season 6) army is heading south, and Continue Reading

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Landline: When people were harder to reach

Posted on June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair. (synopsis via IMDb) Wouldn’t it be lovely if life worked out exactly as we imagined it would? Well the good bits anyway … In Landline, Jenny Slate’s character Continue Reading

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  • Rabbits and chicks and glittery carrots oh my! I decorated my Easter tree with 5 pop culture ornaments
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  • Easter is fun! Mini-reviews of Banjo the Hot Cross Bun, Pink Easter + Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny
    (via Shutterstock) I adore kids’ books. Sure they were once upon just books to read to my nieces and nephews, but they’ve grown past books like these now, and yet, in reading them to my favourite little people, it hit me that here are some fun stories worth reading just Continue Reading
  • Easter has a soundtrack just like Christmas, so why do we never hear it? (curated article)
    (via Shutterstock) This article by by Wendy Hargreaves, academic in the School of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, was first published in The Conversation Australia. You can’t visit the shops around Christmas time without hearing “Feliz Navidad”, “Silent Night”, or Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Continue Reading
  • Easter book review: Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier
    (courtesy Penguin Random House) It would be tempting to take in the title to this book by Leslie Meier and assume that the much-loved iconic Easter Bunny has had a brain snap, a breakdown and a loss of inhibition all in one and got on an uncharacteristically bloody killing spree. Continue Reading
  • Rabbits and chicks and glittery carrots oh my! I decorated my Easter tree with 5 pop culture ornaments
    (via Shutterstock) Are Easter trees really a thing?! It’s a common reaction when I tell people I have one, and that I decorate it every year, and I have to explain that yes, they exist – mine was bought at Bed, Bath and Table at post-Easter sales many years ago Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #135: girli, Em Beihold, Alex Warren, TOMORA + Jessie Ware … extra! RAYE live at Abbey Road
    (via Shutterstock) We all need music. It soundtracks the good, the bad and the ugly – this reference makes way further down this pot – and it gives up hope and a sense of direction when all around us life feels like it’s sinking beneath the waves. These five featured Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Magic Faraway Tree
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a tale as old as, well, not time exactly, but certainly since the day movies arrived just over a century ago and began adapting books into films, setting in train a titanic battle between those who believe solely in the purity of the written word and Continue Reading
  • An unwelcome visitor … or the start of healing? Thoughts on Homebodies
    (courtesy Random Management Instagram) So much is left unsaid when you’re a queer person coming out to your parents. You may have rehearsed the conversations a thousand times in your head, imagined how the discussion might go, good or bad and hoped that everything you authentically are will be far Continue Reading
  • Book review: That Island Feeling by Karina May
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Heading off on holidays, all we really want is to get away from the insistent stresses and strains of everyday life. Hand us a cocktail, sit us by the pool or in a bush cabin somewhere, banish the internet to a simpler, more analogue time and Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Project Hail Mary
    (courtesy IMP Awards) At the heart of every great and enduring sci-fi story, sits an impressive amount of evocative humanity. It’s easy just to see the spaceships and the planetary expanses and aliens and wars and epic space opera sprawling across millennia and impossibly far light years of stars and Continue Reading
  • “Oh my God, run!!” The End of Oak Street releases a prehistorically intriguing trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading
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