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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!

Happy birthday to … 5 of my favourite fictional characters (#2)

Posted on November 25, 2013November 22, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I am a madly sentimental guy. If it’s an important event like say my birthday (which it is today) or Christmas or a family or friend’s birthday, I will go all out to make sure the day is as perfect as possible with chronic over-catering, balloons, accessories or trees Continue Reading

Posted In Movies, TVTagged In Birthday

Doctor Who turns 50: Review of Day of the Doctor

Posted on November 24, 2013November 28, 2013 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS, SWEET, SPOILERS!*   There are many days in which it is very good to be a lifelong fan and companion of Doctor Who, the mysterious, enigmatic, currently bow-tie loving hitherto last of the Time Lords but today … well, today was a very good day indeed. For today Continue Reading

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Chow down on Sesame Street’s spot on Hunger Games parody

Posted on November 24, 2013November 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Sesame Street have always had their hands on the pulse of pop culture, delivering up timely parodies of the shows, movies and songs of the moment, that are both charmingly irreverent while also containing a valuable teaching lesson of some sort to their impressionable young demographic. It’s hard to Continue Reading

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Kerrrr-mieee! It’s The Muppets Most Wanted new trailer! Wocka wocka wocka

Posted on November 24, 2013December 10, 2013 by aussiemoose

  We have a trailer for Muppets Most Wanted and I’ll bet even Statler and Waldorf would approve of it. OK quite likely not but the fact remains that we have a brand spanking shiny new madcap trailer for the next Muppets movie, a movie that I have been looking Continue Reading

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Get Frozen … and Get a Horse! (New Mickey Mouse short)

Posted on November 23, 2013November 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Mickey Mouse is back where he belongs – cheeky, impetuous and with a nice retro 1920s sheen, thanks to a wonderful new short Get a Horse! that will accompany Disney’s new animated film, Frozen. With more than a tilt of the hat to cartoons like Steamboat Willie – try Continue Reading

Posted In MoviesTagged In Disney, Mickey Mouse

Movie review: Fruitvale Station

Posted on November 23, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It is hard to walk away from a film like Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler in a confrontingly realistic docudrama style (which garnered him two major awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival), without being profoundly affected. Detailing the tragic miscarriage of justice which occurred in Continue Reading

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Weekend Pop Art #10: The 50 year history of Doctor Who as an imaginative tapestry

Posted on November 23, 2013November 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I absolutely anyone who dares to think outside the box in any sphere. And Bill Mudron, who hasn’t so much as stepped outside the artistic box as he has left the plant, shredded all the cardboard-making technology and burned the factory down, has created one of the most original Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In Weekend Pop Art

Movie review: Mystery Road

Posted on November 22, 2013November 21, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Upsetting the status quo is never an easy proposition for anyone but it becomes exponentially more challenging in the suffocatingly intense surrounds of a small town where everybody knows everyone and everything. That’s the situation facing Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson), newly returned from detective school in the “Big Smoke”, Continue Reading

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Now This is Music #19: Jonas Oakland, Layla, Ida Corr, Kele, Neneh Cherry

Posted on November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Though we’re almost on the cusp of wall to walls renditions of “Deck the Halls”, “We Three Kings” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” – all of which by the way is fine with me, the Christmas Addict – there’s still time for some funky, cutting edge pop music Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead plays Monopoly … and goes back to the future or is that the past?

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

  Way back in the dim, dark days of my youth – which actually weren’t that dark actually since we did have, you know, fire and such – I spent many a happy hour playing Monopoly with my family, usually during end of year summer holidays when we’d decamp to Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In The Walking Dead

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  • Deep TBR June book review: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore (2023)
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) As a content writer by trade and a reader of 55 years standing or so, I am a huge fan of writing that sings and comes alive, of words fairly dancing off the page and not simply impressing the mind but filling the heart with Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Disclosure Day
    (courtesy IMP Awards) As mysteries go, and yes, the world appears to be full of them contrary to all appearances, the huge question about whether aliens exists, and even more pertinently in the case of this review, whether they have visited us, is a BIG one. People debate it endlessly, Continue Reading
  • “Everyone thinks teenage relationships don’t last” … but what if they do, asks Heartstopper Forever
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHeartstopper Forever, written by Oseman and based on the highly anticipated final installment of their graphic novel series, bids farewell to a group of friends who have won viewers’ hearts since the series debuted in 2022. “Heartstopper starts like a fairy tale and a bit idealistic, in Continue Reading
  • You’re invited to a strange new community … thoughts on The Boroughs
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Any time a streaming series subverts expectations it’s a very good thing. While there’s nothing wrong of course coming straight out and delivering what it says it’s going to since sometimes all we need is uncomplicated narrative certainty, having a series take its initial, obvious premise and Continue Reading
  • Deep TBR June book review: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (2025)
    (Pan Macmillan Australia) Somewhere back in the dim dark days of my youth, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the world wasn’t ending at the hands of several hundred disparate and palpable threats, I was heavily into crime fiction. To be more exact, the books of Agatha Christie which my Continue Reading
  • Get animated! Trailers drops for Pixar’s Gatto and Disney’s Hexed
    (via Shutterstock) I am just a big kid at heart. And while there are some parade rainers and miserable naysayers out there who would ridicule me, a man who is most certainly not a child, for liking animated storytelling, I prefer to celebrate the fact that my inner child is Continue Reading
  • Is it the end of the world or a new beginning? The Dog Stars asks some very big, action-packed questions
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“The end of the world was just the beginning.” 🛩️ Set in Colorado after the world’s population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #138: Lady Gaga + Doechii, Nelly Furtado, Hyd, Robyn and Marley Wildthing + EXTRA! Toy Story 5 song by Taylor Swift
    (via Shutterstock) It’s a heady mix of the old and the new this time around with three artists I have long loved, admired and listened to, and two relative newbies on the block who are well and truly making their mark on the musical landscape. It’s a thrill listening to Continue Reading
  • “Make a choice: your friend or this organisation.”  Trailer drops for Ride or Die series
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTRide or Die is a comedy series following the best friends Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) and Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a Continue Reading
  • Deep TBR June book review: Gus and the Missing Boy by Troy Hunter (2024)
    (courtesy Wakefield Press) Growing up, it’s often well nigh impossible to feel comfortable in your own skin. Things are changing fast, and figuring which way is up or down emotionally, socially and in a thousand other hugely challenging ways, becomes the stuff of exhausting everyday coming-of-age parkour-ing. It’s not as Continue Reading
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