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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!

The Walking Dead: “Claimed” (S4, E11)

Posted on February 25, 2014March 4, 2014 by aussiemoose

  In this week’s instalment of Fractured Apocalyptic Tales, with everyone’s favourite prison group still scattered to the walker-infested four winds,  Michonne got more than a touch of the Pharrell Williams, Carl fancied himself a quizmaster, Rick dived under beds and off awnings, and Glenn got stubborn as a mule Continue Reading

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Movie review: C. O. G. #MardiGrasFilmFestival

Posted on February 23, 2014February 23, 2014 by aussiemoose

  C. O. G. is a curiously lifeless film. It’s a particularly odd outcome when you consider it is based on one of noted essayist David Sedaris’ boisterously witty and incisive biographical pieces, which sparkle with verve and a thousand and one ideas and opinions. With material that emotionally and Continue Reading

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The hilariously honest trailer for Oscar contender Gravity

Posted on February 23, 2014February 22, 2014 by aussiemoose

  There are many things I enjoyed about 2013 (and some I did including losing my job: yeah, no, still don’t know where I put it! Boom! Tish!), and prime among them was Alfonso Cuarón’s mesmerising film Gravity, starring my favourite actor in the world (and in this case, orbiting above Continue Reading

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Intrigued to see: Maladies

Posted on February 22, 2014February 22, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, Maladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star in 1960s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with Continue Reading

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Hello Sauron! Looking down at Middle Earth from space

Posted on February 22, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  If you watched in awe as a certain company of dwarves and one initially out of his depth Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins rode atop an impressive flock of Thorondor’s Giant Eagles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wishing you too could sit aloft these might birds and see Middle Continue Reading

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Now this is music 23: Låpsley, The Golden Pony, Neneh Cherry + Four Tet, Rae Morris, Solander

Posted on February 21, 2014February 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s Friday! (Pretty sure you’ve worked that too.) And while it’s always good to let your hair down and dance up a storm, it can also be good to sit back, chill and take in lovely meandering tunes that feed the soul and ease away the stress. So this Continue Reading

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The end is nigh: Warehouse 13 unveils first trailer for fifth and final season

Posted on February 21, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Warehouse 13 is one of those rare shows that I fell in love almost from the word go. There was something about it’s distinctly postmodern mix of the supernatural, the mythological and the downright fantastical, and a cast of passionate but thoroughly whimsical characters that grabbed me minutes into Continue Reading

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Holy bloopers LEGO Batman! Hilarious LEGO movie outtakes

Posted on February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading

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Movie review: Inside Llewyn Davis

Posted on February 19, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  “Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “Inmates” (S4, E10)

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading

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  • Christmas in July book review: A Cozy Kind of Christmas by Ellie Alexander
    If you are aficionado of festive romcoms – and if not, why not, and what did the Grinch do to your cold, dead, tinsel-starved heart? – you will be well aware that they’re all about future love. Two would-be lovers who don’t know they needed to fall in love, or Continue Reading
  • Shift into adventure: Trailer lands for Matchbox: the Movie
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT🚗 Inspired by the Mattel toys, Matchbox the Movie is an action-packed, globe-trotting adventure about a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July book review: Highland Hearts Holiday Bookshop by Tricia O’Malley
    Who among those of us who read books like others breathe and eat – to be fair we all breathe and eat but let’s just go with this overblown comparison for the sake of the review, shall we? – hasn’t dreamed of someone (very distant with their passing causing us Continue Reading
  • Christmas preview: Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol – a new take on a classic festive story
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTThis November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. “A stingy, penny-pinching, cantankerous, lonely old man whose sheer miserly nature leads him to despise Christmas & all things which engender happiness.” The name you know, the story you don’t. From director Ti West – a Christmas fantasy set in Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July music review redux: The Holiday Sounds of Josh Rouse
    This review was first published on 18 December 2019. When it comes to summoning up the sounds, and more pertinently for this review, the sounds of Christmas, there is an understandably heavy bias towards evoking the sensibilities of a cold and cosy northern hemisphere Christmas. Thanks most notably to the Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July book review: The King and the Christmas Tree by A. N. Wilson
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) Since 1942, with a break between 1943-1946 and beginning again in 1947, Oslo has sent a minimum twenty-metre tall, eighty-year-old tree to Trafalgar Square in London as a symbol of the enduring bonds between the two countries, established most profoundly during the dark days of Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July animated movie review redux: The best Christmas tree he can be: The festive adventures of Albert
    This review was first published on 23 December 2019. Christmas television is usually pretty inspirational stuff. It makes sense – if you’re going to set a story at the most, magical time of the year, it’s almost impossible for it not to be uplifting in some fashion. Comes with the Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July book review: A Very Irish Christmas by Debbie Johnson
    When you think of a romcom novel, you think usually of two people which is fair enough because a relationship isn’t much good if there’s only person in it. Fairly logical when you think about; but when you really dive into a romcom, what keeps you there, and keeps you Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Odyssey
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There is an epic grandeur to the works of Homer and even if you are not a learned student of his well-known works, The Odyssey and The Illiad, you will be familiar with many of the elements. This lends Christopher Nolan’s enthrallingly immersive adaptation of The Odyssey, Continue Reading
  • Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good (curated article)
    (via Shutterstock) Author: Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol (article via The Conversation) At busy times, I find I simply cannot read as much as I would like to. Life has a habit of filling every available hour with work, meetings, emails, chores, errands and deadlines. Standing in Continue Reading
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