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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!

More comics reinvention: Looney Tunes meets DC Comics

Posted on March 11, 2017February 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

  Now that they have (mostly) successfully re-imagined a slew of Hanna-Barbera characters such as Scooby Doo, The Flintstones and Wacky Races, Warner Bros, through their DC Comics imprint, have decided to move on to the goofy cast of Looney Tunes. The idea, according to the press release (below) is Continue Reading

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit – The 3 Rules of Living Animation

Posted on March 11, 2017March 10, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is an amazing film on so many levels. Made at a time when the digital revolution had yet to make its indelible mark on the art of animation, the Robert Zemeckis-dtrected film, which beautifully combined live action and animation in a story in an Continue Reading

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Movie review: Jasper Jones

Posted on March 10, 2017March 9, 2017 by aussiemoose

  There is always a fraught element to any book-to-film adaptation – will the movie do its literary antecedent justice? – one made all the more pronounced when the book is as well-loved, and highly-praised as Craig Silvey’s instant Australian classic, Jasper Jones (2009). One way around this wellspring of Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: The psychology of The Narrow World

Posted on March 10, 2017March 8, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The Narrow World is the story of a gigantic alien that crashes to Earth and takes up residence in Los Angeles. Contrary to expectations, when the alien is neither hostile towards the tiny humans around it, nor communicative in any way, it falls on the populace to decipher Continue Reading

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Colony: “Free Radicals” / “Good Intentions” (S2, E7 & E8 review)

Posted on March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 by aussiemoose

  “Either some of us die, or all of us die; you get the honour of deciding which of those it’s going to be. ” (Alan Snyder to Bram) It’s been fairly obvious for some time that the time was coming when people would have to make a choice that Continue Reading

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Cookie Monster and the delicious history of cookies #nomnomnom

Posted on March 8, 2017March 7, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Kids try 100 years of cookies with special guest Cookie Monster including mallomars, sugar cookies, nutter butters, macarons, and more. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you wanted to learn everything you could be about the last 100 years of cookies, and why wouldn’t you, then the person to Continue Reading

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Book review: A Portable Shelter by Kirsty Logan

Posted on March 7, 2017October 3, 2019 by aussiemoose

  All of come to the realisation, at one point or another, that the business of living is not for the fainthearted. What looks from the relatively uncluttered vantage point of childhood to be a straightforward undertaking, soon proves itself to be wildly unpredictable, immensely complicated and prone to as Continue Reading

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Fascinating fan theories: How The Walking Dead may end

Posted on March 7, 2017March 6, 2017 by aussiemoose

  All good things must come to an end. Even the undead shambling across the decaying remains of civilisation items. But while Robert Kirkman says he knows (of course) how the comic strip/TV series will come to an end, and there is high likelihood they will end in different ways, he Continue Reading

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Love is coming to town again on Netflix

Posted on March 4, 2017March 3, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT It’s worth a shot. Mickey and Gus face commitment and all that comes with it as they attempt to bring order to their chaotic lives. (synopsis via Netflix) Falling in love is thrilling. Nerve-wracking, crazy, unsettling, glorious, and if all goes well, something special for the long haul. Continue Reading

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It’s a Bright world out there – but not as you know it (teaser trailer)

Posted on March 4, 2017March 1, 2017 by aussiemoose

  If you’ve ever watched Lord of the Rings, and if not, why not, explain yourself this instant, you’ll be well aware that in that far off and mystical land, humans, elves, orcs and dwarves all exist together in, well not perfect harmony exactly (that’d be the Disney version folks) Continue Reading

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  • Graphic novel review: I Hate Fairyland Vol. 7: In the Mean Time by Skottie Young and Brett Bean
    (courtesy Image Comics) If you have read any of the I Hate Fairyland issues, collected or otherwise, you will know that the one thing, THE ONE THING, that the very angry, usually coated in blood protagonist, or is that antagonist, Gertie wants is to go back to the real world. Continue Reading
  • Christmas preview: Teaser trailer drops for The Man with the Bag
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhen Santa’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) iconic red bag is stolen by a rogue elf with a grudge (Awkwafina), Christmas is suddenly at risk. With his biggest night of the year fast-approaching, Santa recruits a thief (Alan Ritchson) from his ‘Naughty List’ who quickly assembles a crew of criminally Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) The week’s end ushers in a host of tracks, well, five to be precise, and they’re a great way to take a weight off all the accumulated stress the working week has visited upon us. There’s something liberating, even when your nerves are on edge and your body Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It never ceases to amaze this reviewer that you can pick up a novella, a slim volume of storytelling that thought it might not have the physical heft or presence of its bigger novel counterparts, and that it can pack an almighty storytelling punch that stands Continue Reading
  • And so the season ends … review of Strange New Worlds S4 E9 “Once La’An a Time” and E10 “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”
    (courtesy Star Trek Strange New Worlds Memory Alpha) E9 “Once La’An a Time” If ever you needed proof that Strange New Worlds is not interested in doing things as they have always been done in Star Trek, then “Once La’an a Time” (no prizes for guessing what that’s a play Continue Reading
  • Sci-fi September book review: The Infinite State by Richard Swan
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Watching the stop-start march of fascism across the globe in recent years, and the resistance of many people to its horrific progress, people who have noted history and are well aware of the sage lessons it teaches, has been unnerving and alarming but also somewhat removed for Continue Reading
  • Trio o’ terrific trailers (September 2026): MADFABULOUS, Treasure Island + Onwards and Sideways
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