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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 Walking Dead: “Now” (S6, E5 review)

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by aussiemoose

    * SPOILERS … AND A RATHER NASTY DOSE OF REALITY LIE AHEAD * Life, especially life in the apocalypse, doesn’t really play fair does it? There you are, all happy and content, playing happy families behind tall, strong walls, making like life is as it’s always been when, Continue Reading

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Dev has a lot of questions: Aziz Ansari stars in Master of None

Posted on November 10, 2015November 5, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Master of None follows the personal and professional lives of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and both sweeping in scope and intensely personal, Dev’s Continue Reading

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“Demented” reading: Kids books get a pop culture makeover courtesy of Joey Spiotto

Posted on November 8, 2015November 7, 2015 by aussiemoose

  One of my wondrous parts of my childhood was sitting down with all my Little Golden Books and reading the afternoon away. There was something so enticing about the iconic book line, with its glittering gold spine and array of storytelling possibilities, that had me hooked from the word Continue Reading

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A melting pot of marvel: New stills and cast info for Zootopia

Posted on November 8, 2015November 3, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading

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Love isn’t just for the movies: The enduring creative romance of Harold and Lillian

Posted on November 7, 2015November 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  It can be tempting to think, at times, that love, true love, is an elusive concept; an overly optimistic idea whose true home is not in the rough-and-tumble of real life, but in the movies, TV, popular art. Anywhere it seems but in the rubber-hits-the-road realness of day to Continue Reading

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Poster me this! Star Wars: The Force Awakens character posters

Posted on November 7, 2015November 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Unless you are stuck on a rock, or under it, floating somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy, you’d have no doubt heard there’s a new Star Wars movie in the offing. Oh hell, I’m sure that even in the remotest parts of the Outer Rim Territories moviegoers Continue Reading

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Book review: Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson

Posted on November 6, 2015December 14, 2017 by aussiemoose

  It’s a rare life indeed that isn’t without some kind of drama or another. But to listen to Howard York, the ebullient, charming, larger-than-life owner of the Hotel Alpha on London’s Euston Road, you would swear that life is simply a series of slightly annoying obstacles easily overcome with Continue Reading

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Tumbling every which way in Alice Through the Looking Glass (teaser trailers)

Posted on November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Mia Wasikowska is joined by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, as well as franchise newbies Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time. Tim Burton returns in a Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “Here’s Not Here” (S6, E4 review)

Posted on November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 by aussiemoose

  * SPOILERS, AND THE PATH TO SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT LIE AHEAD * “Here’s Not Here” was a remarkable episode in many ways. It wasn’t simply that it followed last week’s action-packed, high-adrenaline episode “Thank You” in which – SPOILER! – Glenn died/did not die/got way too close to a dumpster for Continue Reading

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Simon’s Cat is Off to the Vet … and he ain’t happy about it

Posted on November 4, 2015November 3, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. The book shares its theme with the first ever full colour Simon’s Cat 12 minute longer format film (to Continue Reading

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  • Book review: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Any good book worth its narrative, world-building salt should be able to hold immersively entranced through every page and exciting twist-and-turn. But some books are created more equal than others in this regard, and Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear, the first book in her White Space series, Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Quiet Maid (Calladita)
    (courtesy IMDb) This may be news to the producers of many a Hollywood blockbuster – this reviewer loves many of them but subtle they are not – but there is real power in telling an emotionally impactful story quietly. While the temptation, especially in our cliffhanger-addicted, streaming algorithm modern digital Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Books that subvert expectations are quite possibly the very best kind. When you first pick up The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace, you might be struck by the quirkiness of the titlenand even the taglines on the front cover and atop the back Continue Reading
  • Why are the aliens here? Teaser trailer for Invasion S3 suggests someone has figured it out
    (courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTInvasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. In Season 3, those perspectives collide for the first time, as all the main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership. The ultimate apex aliens have Continue Reading
  • During Christmas in July, I decorated my tree with 5 new pop culture ornaments
    (via Shutterstock) Somewhere around five years ago, with Christmas in July gathering in popularity all the time, I decided that I would use the white tree originally bought to display Easter ornaments, to display some Christmas ornaments during the cold winter months in Australia. The wins were many – we Continue Reading
  • This Christmas in July … I read Confessions of a Christmasaholic by Joss Wood
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Christmas romantic comedies aren’t generally the time of stories to break the genre mold. And that’s perfectly okay because what you want, I would in fact argue, you need, from these types of tales is that everything that is broken can be fixed, that the Continue Reading
  • Take a big swing: Thoughts on Stick (S1, E1-5)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Ostensibly, Stick is all about golf. Watch the trailer and even dive into the first five episodes and you will come across many discussions about why golf matters, how to play it well and what it means to the soul as well as the body. But, and Continue Reading
  • He’s gone too far! Trailer releases for a feisty and fun Cat in the Hat movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Today is going to be THE. BEST. DAY. EVER!” Meet the Cat in the Hat you don’t know! In the whimsical tradition of Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat comes to the big screen in his animated theatrical feature film debut, an all-new, epic adventure with Continue Reading
  • One last roll of the planetary dice … Project Hail Mary releases its first gripping trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAstronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Grace must Continue Reading
  • Book review: Rise and Shine by Kimberley Allsopp
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) There’s a popularly-held very binary dynamic at work when it comes to love stories. You’re either falling wildly and hopelessly in love with nothing but wine and roses and sunshine through dew drop eyes ahead of you … OR … you have reached the end Continue Reading
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