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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!

Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers

Posted on June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 by aussiemoose

  It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading

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The ocean is calling: Moana trailer + poster

Posted on June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure Continue Reading

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Is it possible to bridge The Space Between Us?

Posted on June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading

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Book review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Posted on June 14, 2016June 14, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Being an outsider is never an easy thing. It can be wondrous, freeing, the granter of wildly unexpected perspectives and a sense of being uniquely set apart; but it can also leave you feeling lonely, socially crucified and ill-adept and wondering if there is a place for you in Continue Reading

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Need a Finding Nemo refresher before Finding Dory arrives? Here’s an emoji recap

Posted on June 14, 2016June 8, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Finding Dory is almost upon us folks. Yes good old Finding Dory which is … um … what was I saying? Oh yes … Finding Dory is almost upon us folks and … Goodness you could make Dory-like forgetful jokes all day couldn’t you? But guessing peoples’ sense of Continue Reading

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First impressions: Be Cool Scooby-Doo

Posted on June 12, 2016February 26, 2020 by aussiemoose

  Reviving much-loved pop culture characters can be a challenge. Too much homage to nostalgia, to the much-loved but well worn tropes that defined the characters in the first place and you’re simply consigning them to an increasingly small niche and possibly eventual creative stagnation and obliterative irrelevancy. Too much new Continue Reading

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Want to let the world know about your reading list? Rap it readers!

Posted on June 12, 2016June 2, 2016 by aussiemoose

  If you were to take a look at my bookshelves, you would soon come to realise that I own an enormous number of books., I mean, a LOT. Many of them are read, kept because of some emotional attachment or love of the book itself, but many, much to Continue Reading

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Douze points? Mais non! 12 Eurovision entries that didn’t score a single point

Posted on June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 by aussiemoose

  There are many things that are memorable about the Eurovision Song Contest. The songs. The costumes. The staging – pyrotechnics, key changes, costume reveals, wind machines, odd props and back-up singers that look like in the wrong place at the wrong time. And then, of course, there are the Continue Reading

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The Way Old Friends Do: ABBA reunite to sing on stage

Posted on June 10, 2016June 8, 2016 by aussiemoose

  At last ABBA has reformed! Well before we, and by we I mean I get completely carried away – with ABBA this is extremely easy to do such is my four decade long devotion to the musical cause of four talented Swedes who made some of the best pop Continue Reading

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Read with Amy Schumer: The Girl With the Lower Back tattoo

Posted on June 10, 2016June 2, 2016 by aussiemoose

  It pretty much goes without saying that Amy Schumer is a very funny lady. The creator, co-writer, co-producer and star of sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer and the writer and star of last year’s hit romantic comedy Trainwreck, Schumer has an enviable gift of combining humour with poignancy Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTArchie is devastated to learn of the death of his beloved aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she’s left him in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog. Archie is written and created by Domenica Continue Reading
  • Sci-fi September book review: The Traveler by Joseph Eckert
    (courtesy Macmillan Publishers) One of the marks of an exceptionally good writer is the ability to take a story steeped in a fantastical premise, one ripe with all kinds of imaginative possibility and to do something impactfully meaningful with it. It’s a real art; lean too hard into the fantastical, Continue Reading
  • Aliens and foxes and a journey across the cosmos: The Saga of Rex trailer
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA little fox. A flying saucer. An alien world. A journey that will change his life forever. Abducted from his home and taken across the cosmos, Rex is paired with a mysterious being named Aven and forced to face a series of extraordinary trials. As they struggle Continue Reading
  • Wocka Wocka! It’s The Muppet Show’s 50th anniversary!!!
    (courtesy IMDb (c) Jim Henson Productions) I remember in the dim, dark days of the mid-seventies when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and the Egyptians were building the pyramids (yes, I am that old) lying on the floor of the loungeroom of our house in Alstonville, up in northern NSW, excitedly Continue Reading
  • Sci-fi September book review: Jitterbug by Gareth L. Powell
    (courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) It is always a pleasure of the greatest magnitude when you dive into a sci-fi novel which always promises some thrillingly big and sweeping storytelling and it goes even bigger and bolder than you expected. It’s hard to be surprised in our everything-on-the-table preview-manic digital Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The History of Sound
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Love in its purest form is supposed to elevate, enlarge, enthrall us, building and growing what was into something altogether bigger and better and different. That’s the grandly idealistic promise that romantic love makes to us and much of the time, if allowed free and full expression, Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #141: Jain, daine, ANAÏS MVA, hemlocke springs + Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue
    (via Shutterstock) Pop which gives your ears a happy burst of musical escapism are always welcome. Even better though is when those slice of transportive musical delight come with lyrics which say something profound and which mean something real and relatable; marrying the two isn’t for everyone but for the Continue Reading
  • Her fresh start is just getting started … Thoughts on Leanne 2
    (courtesy Leanne Morgan Comedy Instagram) Moving on with your life after a traumatic event is always going to be a challenge, and not simply in the immediate aftermath. In season 1 of the Chuck Lorre sitcom, Leanne, we see the eponymous protagonist of this gentle comedy, played by stand-up comedian Continue Reading
  • Sci-fi September book review: Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) One of the most enduring motifs in space operas is the idea that a renegade, diverse bunch of people, all of good heart and relatively pure soul, which is rare in a rough-n-tumble, dog-eat-dog galaxy, can find each other, come together, forge a found family against Continue Reading
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