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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!

In a galaxy far far away … Star Wars characters cuddle up to kittehs courtesy of Disney artists

Posted on January 16, 2016January 16, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Cats and Star Wars characters together? Surely that is a combination made in heaven! Well, if you’re a Star Wars-obsessed, cat-loving guy like me it is. Two talented Disney feature animation artists, Griz and Norm Lemay have seen fit to bring these two groups together and the resulting artwork, Continue Reading

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Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman

Posted on January 15, 2016November 30, 2016 by aussiemoose

  It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book that not only possesses engaging, beguiling characters in a world that seems as real as anything physically before you but which tells their story with a lyricism and poetry so exquisite that you stop every paragraph or so to Continue Reading

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Pixar homage: How the much-loved animation studio doffs its creative hat to great movies past

Posted on January 15, 2016January 14, 2016 by aussiemoose

  There are a great many things to love about Pixar. Their ability to conjure up a fully-formed world whether it’s a child’s room or a facility where monsters go out to scare children and harvest their fright energy. Their attention to detail, their rich characters who leap off the Continue Reading

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Tons o’ TV Trailers #2: Teachers, Baskets, 11.22.63, The Path, the 100

Posted on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Oh ye who think that you might actually have some time to sleep, eat and smell the roses once you’re done with the five programs in Tons o’ Trailers #1 – abandon all hope of doing anything but watching a host of great programs on TV … because here Continue Reading

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Do not go gentle into that good (pop culture) night: VHS gets a second lease on life

Posted on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by aussiemoose

  We see it again and again. A new technology comes along sweeping all before it, and we’re breathlessly told by visionaries with rose-tinted glasses on it and a glass half-full in their hand, that the world will be a far better place when it has supplanted all those pesky Continue Reading

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Reset: Playing with time to save the one you love

Posted on January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In Reset, Yang Mi (The Bullet Vanishes) plays a single mother and scientist who is developing a method of traveling through time using black holes. And then a mysterious bad guy played by Wallace Huo (Swordsman) kidnaps her son and demands that she hand over the time-travel technology. Continue Reading

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Tons o’ TV Trailers #1: Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead, The Get Down

Posted on January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by aussiemoose

  “So much TV, so little time!” could well be the cry of lament emanating from many a TV viewer’s lips in this much-remarked upon new Golden Age of Television. Or some, like Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone are calling it, “the age of Glut TV” where there’s “Too much Continue Reading

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Movie review: Looking For Grace #StGeorgeOpenAir

Posted on January 10, 2016August 7, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Cinema loves its grand, dramatic moments. They’re the lifeblood of blockbusters, Oscar-worthy dramas and even in their own understated ways, indies; and they often form the point around which many an epic narrative pivots. But what if you turned that on its head somewhat, and gave a film its big Continue Reading

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60 x 2016 movie trailers in one clip? You got it Mr DeMille

Posted on January 10, 2016January 9, 2016 by aussiemoose

  I’m busy. You’re busy. We’re all 21st-century-running-hell-for-leather busy. Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction appreciate this, they really do, and so they have stitched together trailers for 60 of this year’s big mainstream releases such as Zoolander 2, Pride Prejudice and Zombies and Star Trek Beyond in Continue Reading

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Star Wars? Meet Calvin & Hobbes. You’re welcome thanks to Brian Kesinger

Posted on January 9, 2016January 9, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Two of my favourite things in the entire wonderful vastness of the pop culture are Star Wars, which is doing pretty brisk business at the moment with The Force Awakens, and Calvin & Hobbes, a legendary comic strip, long since retired about a young boy and his very special, Continue Reading

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  • Festive book review: The Christmas Carrolls: The Christmas Club by Mel Taylor-Bessent
    (courtesy Harper Collins Booksellers Australia) Giving your inner festive child a reviving taste of what it should be like when Christmas rolled around is never a bad thing. That’s why this reviewer often reads books aimed at kids because they perfectly capture the joy and exhilaration of being a kid Continue Reading
  • On 8th day of Christmas … I watched A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Full disclosure upfront: I am one of those consumers of pop culture in all kinds of forms who has never really listened to a Jonas Brothers song. That’s not the result of snobbery or age – though I can safely say, without giving too much away, that Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky
    In a world that always feel a little bit broken, a little less than wonderful and a whole lot disappointing, depending on the day, perfection seems like a wholly alluring idea. Especially when, like vintage goods store owner Henry Aster, you have recently found the man you were convinced was Continue Reading
  • On 7th day of Christmas, I listened to Christmastime by Trisha Yearwood and Verve: Remixed Holiday
    (via Shutterstock) Christmastime by Trisha Yearwood (courtesy Apple Music) Trisha Yearwood’s new album Christmastime is as good a reminder as any that it’s best to always hold onto your expectations loosely and to never let them get in the way of experiencing something new. Initially dismissed by this reviewer because Continue Reading
  • Festive novella review: Christmas at Flora’s House by Freya North
    (courtesy McCabe Media Ltd) Firsts are a curious thing. They can either be the stuff of liberation and exhilarating novelty; a chance to ditch the status quo, throw ruts out the window and to experience in ways that have never been part of your life before. But equally, depending on Continue Reading
  • Happy festive 75th anniversary Peanuts! Review of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
    (courtesy Amazon) SNAPSHOTThe special consists of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmas time situations. (courtesy Peanuts wiki) You have to feel a little sorry for any of the Peanuts’ Christmas specials that followed in the wake of the classic A Charlie Continue Reading
  • On 6th day of Christmas … I read The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan + bonus review of short story The Christmas Book Hunt
    (courtesy Amazon Australia) If you’re after a book which is all Christmas all the time, like a blessedly escapist festive romcom, then The Secret Christmas Library is likely not the book for you. It is not even, as it turns out, about a library that is secret or especially Christmassy; Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more Christmas songs #2 … Elysia Biro, Marcia Hines, Laufey, Jamra, LOLO + Sophie Ellis-Bextor … and more!
    (via Shutterstock) The first batch of Christmas single took us down a quietly contemplative, chestnuts roasting kind of path but this time we’re channelling all the joy and eggnog-y energy of the season with 11 very catchy songs. Most of them hail from this year’s bountiful crop of festive tracks Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop by Rebecca Raisin
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.) There is so much power in just being yourself. This reviewer didn’t see it for years, hemmed in by strident opinions from “those who knew better” in the church and in a slew of other places, and I suspect that the eponymous protagonist of Flora’s Continue Reading
  • On 5th day of Christmas … I watched Tinsel Town
    (courtesy IMDb) There seems to be best described as the “Christmas Karma Effect” at work this festive season. It roughly works on the basis that if you’re putting together a Christmas film, one that is supposed to be all heart and humanity, redemption and healing and warmhearted cosy vibes of Continue Reading
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