SNAPSHOT Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and Continue Reading
aussiemoose
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!
Book review: Sand by Hugh Howey
Humanity seems to be forever caught in a tension between who we were, who we are now and who we would like to be. Not everyone is affected by this of course, with a sizeable number of our fellow human beings either unaware of it, or if they do notice its grating presence, Continue Reading
Drowning in pixels: Yes there is a lot more TV on our screens nowadays
See I told you I wasn’t imagining it! There is a LOT more TV on our screens that there was even five years with the number of original scripted series more than doubling from 80 in 2009 to 180 in 2014. And the growth is even more impressive, points out Continue Reading
Home Sweet Home: charming anthropomorphic houses embark on an epic journey (short film)
No one likes moving right? All the packing, the organising, the lugging and hauling, the sweating, the exhaustion, the dislocation; none of those words scream fun,the experience most analogous to a trip to the dentist or being held captive while the tax code is read to us. But in Continue Reading
Happy Australia Day: 5 Aussie movies you should see this year
Happy Australia Day everyone! As you fire up the barbie and throw on the snags, throw down a few “cold ones” and wonder whether you should start dessert with the Iced VoVos, the pavlova or the lamingtons, thoughts may turn to the Aussie movies you’d like to see this Continue Reading
You have been chosen to watch The Messengers … oh and save the world!
My, my, my but we have become a dark and despondent lot haven’t we? Besieged by terror acts unspeakable, climate change, economic woes and a general decline in societal civility, humanity seems to have decided as one that the only way to deal with all this pessimism and darkness Continue Reading
Farewell Miranda … parting is such NOT fun (final episodes review)
Saying goodbye to a TV show you love is never easy. These days, of course, you never really say goodbye to a TV show with streaming, good old fashioned DVDs, cable re-runs and yes fan-fic keeping the characters you know and love alive long after the credits have run Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Classic movie posters get LEGOlised by Adly Syairi Ramly
Adly Syairi Ramly is a seriously imaginative guy. Not content with playfully rendering a host of famous bands in LEGO, he has now turned his attention to a slew of classic movie posters, giving each of them what he calls his “Legolised” treatment. It’s a timely move given the fact Continue Reading
The irrepressibly charming Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (trailer)
SNAPSHOT After 15 years of living in a cult, the unbreakable and wide-eyed Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, The Office) is rescued along with three other women, causing a national sensation that culminates with an appearance on the Today show. Before getting back on the bus to Indiana, however, Kimmy decides Continue Reading
Book review: The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
(image via Tor Books UK; I was going to photograph my own cover but all my enthusiastic reading left some of the letter a little less than glossy)[/caption] It is a conundrum almost as old as time itself – do the ends always justify the means? It’s one of the Continue Reading