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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!

A whole new world of Robin Williams as Aladdin: newly-released footage shows the much-missed comic genius in action

Posted on October 16, 2015October 14, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There’s a very good reason why Robin Williams, who tragically passed away last year after battling depression for much of his life, is so revered as a comic genius. In role after after role, he poured his heart and soul into the characters he played, investing them with so Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Intern

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by aussiemoose

  It’s a near universally-acknowledged truth, observed by the writer of Proverbs in the Bible and keen observers of the human condition, that people need a compelling reason to get up in the morning and writer/director Nancy Meyer (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated) takes that much remarked-upon idea and runs Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: Love sweet Giant Robots From Outer Space love

Posted on October 14, 2015October 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Love, so says the popular idiom, is blind. That piece of pithy wisdom, the veracity of which has been proved time and again by romantic entanglements too numerous to mention, has never been truer than in this delightful short film from Valentin Watrigant, François Guery, Elsa Lamy, Aurelien Fernandez, and Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “First Time Again” (S6, E1 review)

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

  * SPOILERS … AND A MOTHER LOAD OF WALKERS ALL WALKING YOR WAY AHEAD  *   “One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.” (Jean Rostand) No prizes for guessing which side of the equation the walkers, and there are an Continue Reading

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“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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  • Fantasy April book review: The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Hiding away from the world, even if it’s in plain sight, is something that anyone who has undergone trauma is very adept at doing. You may long for happy-ever-afters and a community to call your own and a life that’s buoyant and free but the truth of Continue Reading
  • How does the audition of a lifetime go? Thoughts on Bait
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you have so much as stepped out of your house at any point in your life, and the odds are good you have, you will have definitely come into contact with the socially toxic tendrils of a narcissist. You know the type – people who overwhelm Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Haru (Book 3) – Fall by Joe Latham
    (courtesy Simon & Schuster) It’s easy to think that war and hatred, bigotry and violence are far more powerful than love and peace, joy and community. After all, the former are emphatically bombastic and loud; they look powerful, they appear menacing, bristling muscular energy of the worst, most destructive kind Continue Reading
  • Book review: Spring at Flora’s House by Freya North
    (courtesy official Freya North site) Identity is a powerful driver for every person alive. Not all of us may acknowledge it outright, but whether we emphatically embrace the dogma of a religion, the fervency of fandom of a football team or we live and breathe artistic expression in all its Continue Reading
  • Easter is fun! Mini-reviews of Banjo the Hot Cross Bun, Pink Easter + Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny
    (via Shutterstock) I adore kids’ books. Sure they were once upon just books to read to my nieces and nephews, but they’ve grown past books like these now, and yet, in reading them to my favourite little people, it hit me that here are some fun stories worth reading just Continue Reading
  • Easter has a soundtrack just like Christmas, so why do we never hear it? (curated article)
    (via Shutterstock) This article by by Wendy Hargreaves, academic in the School of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, was first published in The Conversation Australia. You can’t visit the shops around Christmas time without hearing “Feliz Navidad”, “Silent Night”, or Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Continue Reading
  • Easter book review: Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier
    (courtesy Penguin Random House) It would be tempting to take in the title to this book by Leslie Meier and assume that the much-loved iconic Easter Bunny has had a brain snap, a breakdown and a loss of inhibition all in one and got on an uncharacteristically bloody killing spree. Continue Reading
  • Rabbits and chicks and glittery carrots oh my! I decorated my Easter tree with 5 pop culture ornaments
    (via Shutterstock) Are Easter trees really a thing?! It’s a common reaction when I tell people I have one, and that I decorate it every year, and I have to explain that yes, they exist – mine was bought at Bed, Bath and Table at post-Easter sales many years ago Continue Reading
  • Book review: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever met someone possessed of singular, unwavering ambition, you will be well acquainted with how consuming that kind of focus can be. Nothing else matters to that person beyond seeing their vision realised, their life goals realised and all of the hope and Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #135: girli, Em Beihold, Alex Warren, TOMORA + Jessie Ware … extra! RAYE live at Abbey Road
    (via Shutterstock) We all need music. It soundtracks the good, the bad and the ugly – this reference makes way further down this pot – and it gives up hope and a sense of direction when all around us life feels like it’s sinking beneath the waves. These five featured Continue Reading
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