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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!

“Like a memory I didn’t know I had”: The Hanna Barbardians of the Galaxy

Posted on January 11, 2015January 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Ah the gods of pop culture creativity have smiled upon us once again! Just when you thought Guardians of the Galaxy couldn’t possibly get any bigger or more impressively cool, along comes Michigan-based artist Jay P. Fosgitt to render Starlord (Christ Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Continue Reading

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The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes: Walking Dead mid-season 5 teaser poster

Posted on January 11, 2015January 10, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Way back at the end of November 2014 when The Walking Dead departed our screens for a leisurely two month mid-season break from the televised apocalypse, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of beleaguered followers were wondering quite why it was they were continuing to put one foot Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Water Diviner

Posted on January 10, 2015January 11, 2015 by aussiemoose

  War, or more specifically, the Great War of 1914-1918 has cost Mallee farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) a great deal. In the space of one gruelling, horrifyingly bloody war at Gallipoli in 1915, at which the enduring ANZAC legend was born, he loses all three sons to enemy Turkish Continue Reading

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Dinosaurs in Pawnee! The hilarious mash-up of Jurassic World and Parks and Recreation

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

  There’s no denying that Chris Pratt’s star is in the ascendancy. After many years of playing loveable goofball Andy on Parks and Recreation, and adding his own piece of just-played-right comic genius to what is in anyone’s books a shining ensemble cast, he’s now finding increasing success in Hollywood, Continue Reading

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Movie review: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Posted on January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 by aussiemoose

  “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” (Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall) It is a rare thing indeed in this shout-everything-from-the-rooftop age that Continue Reading

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Oh so tiny and wonderful: Ant-Man debuts poster and full trailer

Posted on January 9, 2015January 8, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man. Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero Continue Reading

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Thunderbirds are go … again!

Posted on January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 by aussiemoose

  One of the fondest pop culture memories of my childhood, of which there are many – even then I was juggling my time between books, TV shows, movies and music so what maketh the  boy very much maketh the man – was getting up just before 6am when we Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: Ex Machina

Posted on January 6, 2015January 6, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Classic movie posters + DC superheroes = iconic images re-imagined

Posted on January 4, 2015December 16, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s always refreshing to see the work of people willing to think outside the box. It’s even better when it’s a venerable company like DC Comics, with a slew of much-loved characters to their name and a well-esteblished way of bringing to their fans. It would be very easy with Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to go Looking some more: Season 2 trailer

Posted on January 4, 2015January 2, 2015 by aussiemoose

  It is eminently possible for life to be a many-splendoured thing. But if you’re Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agustín (Frankie J. Álvarez) or Dom (Murray Bartlett), three friends living in San Francisco, juggling careers and busy social lives with what often feels like the endless search for Mr. Right, it can Continue Reading

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  • CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The Secret Mistletoe Promise (The Secret Bookshop, Book 2) by Cressida McLaughlin
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) SNAPSHOTIs a new beginning waiting for her this Christmas? When Imogen leaves her fiancé at the altar and escapes to her grandmother’s cottage by the sea, the only thing she wants to do is disappear. But in a village curious about their new arrival, Imogen finds Continue Reading
  • Things seem different … Thoughts on Wednesday season 2 part 2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) The Addams Family has always been popular because everyone comes as a unit. They are tight, love each other and have each other’s backs as the members of the one kooky tribe, and while like any loving family, they clash and fracture at times, they always have Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Fierce: The F*cked-Up Fairytale of a Fed-Up Princess by Geoffroy Monde (writer) and Mathieu Burniat (artwork)
    (courtesy Abrams Books) Think you know the legend of King Arthur? Think again, my friends in the yelling, scremaing, frenetically colourful and boisterous chaos of Fierce the Fcked-up Fairytale of a Fed-up Princess by Geoffroy Monde (story) and Mathieu Burniat (artwork/layout/colours), the much-told story of the fictional (?) hero of Continue Reading
  • Book review: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan
    (courtesy IMP Awards) We all know growing up is tough. But for some people growing up is even tougher, with a bewildering array of issues to navigate and circumstances to survive, and no real emotional support to get through it all. Just how daunting it can be is explored with Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: Smile and the importance of caring friendship
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTGroM wakes up one morning to find that his mouth is stuck in a sour face. He, who wants to be happy and smile. His friend LobO comes visiting and together they embark on a journey to find a GroM’s smile. They try with a circus visit and Continue Reading
  • It’s time to Wake Up Dead Man: a Knives Out mystery (teaser trailer)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not Continue Reading
  • Book review: Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) I know you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover; but what its title? What if it’s so quirky and full of promise with a tagline that says “The hardest murder to solve is your own”? Well then you scoop it up, head Continue Reading
  • CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Let it bro, let it bro, let it bro as trailer drops for A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families. From Disney Branded Television and 20th Television, the festive film features Continue Reading
  • Book review: Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 23 September 2025 in UK and 28 October 2025 in Australia. One of the things I love about reading sci-fi/fantasy is endlessly and imaginatively expansive it can be. You could likely say that about any genre, but there’s Continue Reading
  • Where tyrants spend eternity … thoughts on Foundation S3 (E4-7)
    (courtesy AppleTV+) Not surprisingly, given the lavishly rewarding dense text of Isaac Asimov’s series from which this stremaing juggernaut is sourced, there is a LOT going on in Foundation. Not just over the four episodes under discussion here, but in each and every episode which cram so much in that Continue Reading
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