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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!

“No one is going into an inter-dimensional rift!” The Librarians S2 trailer

Posted on October 13, 2015October 10, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Not that long ago, I was in mourning as a whole lot of quirky, tongue-in-cheek, postmodern-mythos-laden, fun-and-adventure shows I adored suddenly blinked out of televisual existence. One minute I was watching Eureka, Sanctuary and Warehouse 13 and the next? I was not. Well not new episodes anyway. And then Continue Reading

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Book review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Posted on October 11, 2015December 21, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Humanity has an appealing way of investing people, places and things with attributes that they may not otherwise possess. Whether we do it because we firmly believe deep down they are there, or perhaps more likely, because we wish they were there, we are most firmly in the business Continue Reading

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All of Matt Damon’s films in just 8 minutes? James Corden (The Late Late Show) can help you with that!

Posted on October 11, 2015October 8, 2015 by aussiemoose

    Can there be such a thing as too much Matt Damon? No, of course not – what a crazy thing to even ask! But should you not have a million hours in the day, and short of some Doctor Who-esque jiggery-pokery with timey-wimey, it’s unlikely you do, and Continue Reading

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Catch up on The Walking Dead season 5 with this clever video recap where every walker knows your name

Posted on October 10, 2015October 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  “They want to go where Walkers won’t eat their brains.” One of the appealing things about Cheers, which ran for 11 years from 1982-1993 and centred on a group of regulars at a Boston bar, was that everybody knew your name. You belonged, and had to a place to rest Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Even Bugs Bunny gets wrinkles in Andrew Tarusov’s cartoon reimaginings

Posted on October 10, 2015October 8, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Time isn’t kind to us is it? Birthdays come screaming by faster than a Formula 1 car taking a corner, there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done, and to top it all off, even if we slather on the moisturiser and Botox till the Continue Reading

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Now this is music #56: TRACE, Okay Kaya, Swim Good, Wales, HONNE

Posted on October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  We all want to be moved, to feel something that matters don’t we? In our hustle-and-bustle-filled, all too easily distracted by digital baubles-and-trinkets 21st century world, it’s all too easy to miss the fact that while we’re taking in a lot, we’re not necessarily really hearing it, or feeling it. Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: The touching ghoulishness of Tombes & Manèges (Tombs and Rides)

Posted on October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  With Halloween approaching, we’re reminded that the world can often be a dark and scary place. But as this charming short film, Tombes & Manèges (Tombs and Rides), made by the students of Isart Digital School in Paris, makes gloriously clear, it is also full of wonder, love and Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Martian

Posted on October 7, 2015October 7, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There are many things that Hollywood loves, but chief among them surely must be an inspirational story about a brave and capable hero who takes on impossible odds and succeeds. It’s a theme that crops up again and again in a myriad of film genres, and generally garners the Continue Reading

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Poster me this! The Flash (season 2), Sisters, Zootopia

Posted on October 7, 2015October 4, 2015 by aussiemoose

  I am a poster addict, a lover of visual promotion to an insanely devoted degree. There’s something so evocative about the messages conveyed by beautifully-crafted posters, and yes their sheer beauty. I could look at them all day long but of course that would defeat the purpose of the posters Continue Reading

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Fear the Walking Dead: “The Good Man” (S1, E6 review)

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS … AND ZOMBIES … AND DEATH ALL AROUND AHEAD* One of the most searing lesson from the near universally-well realised first season of Fear the Walking Dead aka When the World Went to Undead Sh*t has been how tenuous civilisation and all the ethics and conventions of upstanding, Continue Reading

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  • All the joy … K-Pops! and the hard work and happiness of second chances
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTMeet BJ (Anderson .Paak), a fish-out-of-water musician on the search for stardom carrying a bruised heart from a complicated past relationship. On his journey to revive his music career, BJ lands a gig with a house band in Seoul for a K-Pop competition show. While working on Continue Reading
  • Book review: Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) As ideals go, perfection has to be one of the most laughably impossible. Granted all ideals dance somewhere in the land of blue sky implausibility, cosily inspiring ideas that would be wondrously good if they made it from hope to actuality but which never quite manage Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Sketch
    (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that you never realise about grief, until you are mired irrevocably in its desperately sad and regretful depths, is how powerless it makes you feel. On one level, of course, you know, especially when someone you love dies, that you can’t bring them Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
    (courtesy Penguin Random House) Can you ever get away from yourself? Not really, but and this is crucial in the context of Steven Rowley’s delightful novella, The Dogs of Venice, you can get away from the place where you experienced trauma and that can make the world of difference, So, Continue Reading
  • Playtime has a new look as Toy Story 5 drops its first technologically menacing trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading
  • Book review: Engaged, Apparently by Amy Andrews
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Is it possible, we muse wonderingly at the start of this review, to reinvent a trope? Or, at the very least, and trust us, it’s a very good “very least” indeed, to put a shiny new sheen on it and present it to an enraptured Continue Reading
  • Dark, dangerous and hilarious … Thoughts on How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
    (courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) Think tightrope walkers have a challenge on their hands? Surely a greater feat is balancing comedy and drama in a show like How to Get to Heaven From Belfast – the title alone is redolent with quirky humour and melancholic longing, all in perfect unison Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Distinctly Competent District Councillor by Jonas Jonasson
    (courtesy Harpers Collins Publishers Australia) There is something so heartwarming about looking at life in a whimsical way. In an age when everything is so full on and so serious and unrelentingly intense – this can be both a good and a bad thing but either way, it exacts a Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Pillion #MGFF26
    (courtesy IMDb) How do you define romance? The odds, whether you are straight or gay, or some other gloriously diverse point outside of that binary, is that you will think of tender touches, of deep friendship and shared values, of physical love and whispered words of love; you know, the Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Assorted Crisis Events Vol. 1 by Deniz Camp (writer) and Eric Zawadzki (artist)
    (courtesy Image Comics) God bless humanity – for a complicated, contrary and multifaceted species, we sure do like to keep things simple. A clear example of our preference for everything being deliciously binary or linear is the way we view time which, depending on who you ask is multiversal in Continue Reading
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