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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!

Some thoughts on HBO’s Looking after binge watching its first season

Posted on April 15, 2014April 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It can be very odd seeing who you are and the supposed lifestyle you lead portrayed on the big or small screen. Or at least the idea of what your life is like. Quite often, it is nothing like the reality, which is fine since television is a dramatic Continue Reading

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Whoosh! Almost the entire history of film in three dazzling minutes

Posted on April 13, 2014April 11, 2014 by aussiemoose

  What an impressive achievement! Scott Ewing, a film fanatic of some considerable devotion, has created a brilliant montage of films showcasing the evolution of film from Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, a noted English motion picture pioneer, through to the Lumiere brothers in 1895, George Melies’ 1902 classic A Trip to Continue Reading

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Weekend Pop Art: My Little Pony gets some pop culture geek chic

Posted on April 13, 2014April 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  On the off chance that you crawled under a very large rock somewhere around 1991 and have yet to emerge, I am here to tell you that the 1980s, home to Duran Duran, Hypercolor T-shirts and Dallas, among many other shoulder pad-accented things, are back in a big way, Continue Reading

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If I was there, I would Wish I Was Here (poster + trailer + songs)

Posted on April 12, 2014April 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT WISH I WAS HERE tells the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, husband and dad who at 35 is still trying to find his true place in life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially, and Aidan passes his time fantasising about being the futuristic Continue Reading

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Now where did I leave that CGI? Jurassic Park without the visual bells and whistles

Posted on April 12, 2014April 7, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Impressive though CGI often is, it’s a common complaint in many blockbusters that the special effects can often overshadow the storyline (assuming if there is a meaningful one, of course) with more attention to the all the visual accessories than to the characters or the plot. While that’s certainly Continue Reading

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Book review: The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry

Posted on April 11, 2014December 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  We are accustomed in our loud, brash, 24/7 news cycle world to marking life’s big, momentous moments, the 10th anniversary of this, the 75th celebration of that, our calendars jammed full of the epic, the noteworthy, the hard to miss. While there is, of course, nothing intrinsically wrong with Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: 7 impressively creative mini-films

Posted on April 11, 2014April 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  There is, you may be surprised to learn, no firm definition on what a short film actually is. While there is a consensus that it is not as long as a feature film, something I would have thought would have been patently obvious if you have watched any of Continue Reading

Posted In Movies

Movie review: Divergent

Posted on April 9, 2014March 20, 2015 by aussiemoose

  At first glance there may not seem to be much of a connection between Divergent, the first film in a planned cinematic trilogy based on the much loved young adult series by Veronica Roth, and one of the most famous quotes about the Vietnam War. But as the story Continue Reading

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Road to Eurovision 2014: Week 3 – Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy

Posted on April 9, 2014April 8, 2014 by aussiemoose

  WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading

Posted In MusicTagged In Eurovision, Eurovision 2014

The things we do to SURVIVE: New The Walking Dead season 5 poster

Posted on April 8, 2014April 7, 2014 by aussiemoose

  You may well be thinking to yourself “Did we not just finish season 4, and isn’t season 5 an agonisingly long seven months in the far off wilds of October when we could well be up to your necks in the chomping undead for real?” You would be right Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In The Walking Dead

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  • Christmas movie preview: Violent Night 2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIf you’re nice, you get presents from the Big Guy. If you’re naughty, you get justice. In 2022’s bare-knuckle holiday sensation, Violent Night, an embittered Santa, armed with lethal combat skills, took out a team of mercenaries to rescue a girl & her family. Now, not-so-jolly Saint Continue Reading
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review: “Human Best Friend” (S3) and “A Case of Chiaroscuro” (S4)
    (courtesy Memory-Alpha fandom) “Human Best Friend” (S4, E3) After the good but not great first two episodes of Strange New Worlds‘ fourth season, it was fun to see them come back playfully roaring with “Human Best Friend”. It had all the quirk and bounce of the best of the series’ Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The End of Oak Street
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s likely one of the greatest tests any person can face – what do you do when your world changes, literally in an instant, and you have to confront and deal with a brand new set of circumstances with no time to prepare and no real understanding Continue Reading
  • Christmas preview: Joy to the World by Beth Moran
    (courtesy official Beth Moran Facebook page) This Christmas, the nation’s favourite life coach is in desperate need of a little holiday magic. Alex Nixon has built a glittering TV career teaching clients how to win at life. But when a disastrous viral awards speech reveals that she has zero friends, Continue Reading
  • “We’re in more danger than I thought…” Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 has a trailer full of portent and menace
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series set right after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano. The character was first created for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars Continue Reading
  • Movie review: A Light That Never Goes Out (Jossain on valo joka ei sammu)
    (courtesy IMDb) When we are young and brimming with self confidence and optimistic expectation, it’s near impossible to think of a time when all the certainties of our youth might fall away in a kind of existential cataclysm that will make us wonder if there’s a future worth having at Continue Reading
  • One big angry family … The Angry Birds Movie 3 trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTParenthood is a game-changer.” The birds are all back! This holiday season, one angry bird will face his greatest challenge yet, surviving fatherhood… while saving the world! The Angry Birds Movie 3 is once again directed by animation filmmaker John Rice, director of The Angry Birds 2 Continue Reading
  • ABBA’s Dancing Queen at 50: why we’ve spent half a century having the time of our lives (curated article)
    (My original copy of the “Dancing Queen” single from 1976) Fifty years ago, Swedish pop sensation ABBA released their single “Dancing Queen”. It reached number one in 15 countries, from Australia to the US, to Norway and South Africa. Five decades later it’s still riding the airwaves, being belted out Continue Reading
  • New releases August book review: Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life by Jonas Jonasson
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Reading has always been a great way to escape the world. When all around you things go from bad to worse, and the nothing seems to be make any kind of meaningful sense, having a written story to escape into can make all the difference. Continue Reading
  • A final season: Thoughts on Survival of the Thickest season three
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Good lord but there such an infectious vibe to people who know and love themselves. In the nicest, least aggressive of ways (we’re not talking unreconstructed narcissists here), they own who they are, celebrate what they do and don’t feel the slightest need to begin to apologise Continue Reading
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