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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!

Prance around with John Mayer’s clip for new single “Paper Doll”

Posted on June 19, 2013June 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I don’t usually devote an entire post to just one music clip but as soon as I saw the video for John Mayer’s new single “Paper Doll” – which some sites such as Spin are speculating could be his response to two songs by ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s songs “22” Continue Reading

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Watch out for flying carrots! Disney’s hilarious teaser trailer for “Frozen”

Posted on June 19, 2013June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa Continue Reading

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It’s better up there … new thrilling extended “Elysium” trailer hits orbit

Posted on June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration Continue Reading

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On your marks … Brad Pitt races from the zombies in new clip from “World War Z”

Posted on June 18, 2013June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.  Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade Continue Reading

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Music review: “Ice on the Dune” – Empire of the Sun

Posted on June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Oh the glorious sounds of shiny, happy, synth-washed musical excess. Sounding like the aural equivalent of a deep dive into a candy shop full of bright stripy candy canes, sugar0dusted jubes, and luminously colourful boiled lollies, Empire of the Sun’s Ice on the Dune summons the kind of joyful Continue Reading

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TV review: Season 3 premiere of “Falling Skies” – ‘On Thin Ice’/’Collateral Damage’

Posted on June 16, 2013June 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  * Spoilers ahead * “That’s President Tom Mason to you young man!” To be fear that is probably the last thing you will ever hear a very self-effacing Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) ever say, but the fact remains that in the seven, highly eventful months since last we saw Continue Reading

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Zoom away with the “Man of Steel”

Posted on June 16, 2013June 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I will be honest. I have never been a massive fan of Superman. To be fair, I have not exactly been a card-carrying flag-waving (should that be cape-waving?) member of the Superhero Fanclub. As a child I read British comics such as Cheeky, Buster, and Whizzer and Chips instead Continue Reading

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On the up and up: “300 – Rise of an Empire” (poster + trailer)

Posted on June 15, 2013June 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SYNOPSIS Based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300 this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) attempts to unite all of Greece by leading Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: “The East”

Posted on June 15, 2013June 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT A covert female operative infiltrates an anarchist faction that stages clandestine attacks on major corporations, and finds her mission compromised when she falls for the group’s charismatic leader in this tense and topical thriller from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij — the creative duo behind the indie hit Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Prince Avalanche” (#SydFilmFest)

Posted on June 14, 2013June 14, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Alvin (Paul Rudd) is a man of a very firm ideas. Silence is good for you. Learning languages, particularly German, is vital (especially if you want to converse easily with “the natives”). And taking an entire summer out to manually paint bright yellow lines on remote roads that twist Continue Reading

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  • Book review: Love Bites by Cynthia St. Aubin
    (courtesy Tor Publishing Group) The crime genre, early teenage voracious consumption of Agatha Christie’s entire output aside, has never really compelled this reviewer to sit down and read like, say science-fiction or slice-of-life quirky dramas. While most sections of my favourite bookshops see regular footfall from me, the crime section Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Stich Head by Guy Bass (writer) and Pete Williamson (artwork)
    (courtesy Larrikin Press) It’s a recurring theme in all kinds of creative expression – just who are the monsters really and might they be lurking where you least suspect? The answer, to the second question at least, is an emphatic “YES!!”, owing to the fact that humanity, despite millennia of Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Tron
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Jumping back in time, if not literally then at least cinematically, is always an interesting exercise. Nostalgia exerts a powerful pull on all of us, and watching how it fares when it comes to seeing the object of its hagiographying live and in person again is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life can often like a series of existentially testing events, punctuated by rare moments of levity and joy and wrapped in a lifetime of pain, hurt, loss and hard-won gains. That might seem bleak but for most it’s an accurate take on this thing called life, and Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #129: Georgia, BENEE, Sigrid, Ella Collier + Moyka + ABBA performimg “Mamma Mia” in 1975
    (via Shutterstock) There are some months that just reward you with brilliant songs. Songs that, for a whole host of reasons, you play over and over again and which, for this beleaguered commuter reviewer at least, making walking to the train station and back not feel quite so arduous and Continue Reading
  • Don’t let the bullies win … The Twits drops its feisty trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAcademy Award-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston reimagines Roald Dahl’s iconic characters, Jim & Credenza Twit, in their first feature animated adventure. The Twits tells the story of Mr. & Mrs. Twit, the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Plunging into the latest novel by John Scalzi, and fortunate to have read a number of his books before this, I was well aware of just good a writer this man is and how well he imagines realities beyond our own, bringing them to life with Continue Reading
  • Movie review: All of You
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Knowledge, especially when it’s anchored in scientific truth, is a good and powerful thing. Though there are far too many in the world today who believe that facts are situational and malleable and able to bent at will to suit whatever purpose you have in mind, the Continue Reading
  • Book review: Foreign Country by Marija Peričić
    (courtesy Ultimo Press) One of the ways we survive the many vagaries of life is to tell ourselves stories; they’re usually self-serving storylines that reinforce the internal narrative we have long told ourselves to help us make sense of events that would otherwise defy easy categorisation. Are they always truthful? Continue Reading
  • One week for a lifetime … Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation gets the cinematic treatment
    (courtesy BRIT + CO via Yahoo) SNAPSHOTFree-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what Continue Reading
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