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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!

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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Movie review: Youth

Posted on January 9, 2016November 18, 2016 by aussiemoose

  It’s a common enough theme that life, in all its contrary glory, tends to defy our youthful expectations. Most people don’t have time to sit there and ponder how differently things might have turned out since life rarely, if ever pauses, and we must run to catch up and Continue Reading

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Back of the Mike: A 1938 short film shows how radio made its plays come alive

Posted on January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT A boy lies on his bed (wearing a white shirt and a necktie), listening to a radio western. We see the images the radio creates in his mind, then we cut to the studio, where we see that this whole fantasy world is created at a frantic pace Continue Reading

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Time takes a toll: The enduring bonds of Lily & the Snowman

Posted on January 8, 2016January 7, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Yes, I know Christmas is rapidly receding in the distance, and Lily & The Snowman was released for the festive season by Cineplex, but there’s something so utterly charming, touching and heartfelt about this short film produced for Cineplex that I had to make room for it. It tells Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Give a genre enough time in the pop culture sun and it will inevitably find itself weighed down with tropes and cliches in abundance which it is expected will be presented and accounted in every story that falls within its grasp. You can’t escape it – as Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Text Publishing) Have you ever been rolling along in life, thinking everything is okay and then woken up one day to realise you’re actually a bit player in your own life? In other words, if there were awards for your life, and why the hell shouldn’t there be, you’d Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) You have to feel a certain amount of sympathy for anyone connected to a major franchise who is trying to steer it through the viciously opinionated waters of today’s digital age. Everyone seems to have an idea about what should, and even more emphatically what shouldn’t happen Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There are certain figures who are so intrinsic to a country’s modern identity that you automatically assume you know everything is about them. But as a fantastically imaginative and thoroughly clever new novel, Henry Goes Bush by Wayen Marshall, makes clear, that’s not always so. The Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTVoicemails for Isabelle charts an unexpected romance between Jill (Zoey Deutch) & Wes (Nick Robinson). After her sister Isabelle (Ciara Bravo) dies, Jill copes by continuing to leave her new voicemails. About everything from her boss Chef Bastien’s (Nick Offerman) insufferable antics to how heartbroken she is Continue Reading
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    (courtesy First Showing (c) Pixar) SNAPSHOTMother’s Nature is a series of vignettes with a playful twist on what it means to be a mom, whether you’re a turtle, parrot or anything in between. Directed by Valerie LaPointe and Produced by Claire Munzer and Paige Johnstone. (courtesy YouTube (c) Pixar) This Continue Reading
  • Book review: Yeah the Boys by Holden Sheppard
    Figuring out who you are is one of the most monumental, and yes, challenging parts of growing up. It’s messy, it’s three steps back to one step forward, or at least it feels that way, and it rarely makes as much sense as we want it to; but if that’s Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMDb) Coming to a crossroads, especially an unexpected one, where you have to deal with the fact that something you believed in is no longer worth supporting or is not even remotely what you once believed it to be, is always a jarringly existential moment. It can absolutely knock Continue Reading
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    (courtesy YouTube (c) LAIKA Studios) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to Continue Reading
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