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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!

“Warehouse 13”: Review of season 4 finale “The Truth Hurts”

Posted on August 28, 2013August 28, 2013 by aussiemoose

  “THIS IS MY HO– USE NOW!” With that thundering statement, Paracelsus (Anthony Head), Warehouse 13‘s latest 500 year old mad scientists uber-baddy, takes control of the world’s weirdest major holding place of strange and dangerous artifacts – OK the world’s only holding major place of strange and dangerous artifacts Continue Reading

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Break out the Boom Boom! “Girls” season 3 teaser trailer debuts

Posted on August 27, 2013July 6, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Though it may seem like an eon away – one TV viewing month is equal to at least 6-8 actual months in my estimation – the third season of HBO’s Girls, which is set to bow in January 2014 will be here before we know it. In anticipation of Continue Reading

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Book review: “Shift” by Hugh Howey

Posted on August 27, 2013December 16, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Mankind is a contrarily unique species. Armed with ferocious intelligence, tenacity, ambition, and the ability to remold the world, for better or worse, we hold both the seeds of our uplifting and our downfall in our often overly confident hands. Peter may build up, but Paul will tear down, Continue Reading

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Shhh! Be vewy, vewy qwiet … Neil Patrick Harris has made a silent movie

Posted on August 25, 2013August 24, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Is there nothing that Neil Patrick Harris can’t do and do spectacularly well? I say no! My proof? He hosts the Tonys, performs magic like a pro, is a star on How I Met Your Mother, has two of the most adorable children with his partner, David Burtka … Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Now You See Me”

Posted on August 24, 2013August 24, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading

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Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??

Posted on August 23, 2013August 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading

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A terrific togetherness of TV trailers: Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Dracula, Big School

Posted on August 22, 2013August 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

  We’re barely a month away from all sorts of new season TV goodness and with thoughts of evil fairy tale queens, re-imagined 19th century fictional detectives and bright, sunshiney high school singers dancing in my heads, it’s entirely the right time to gather them all together in one big Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Francis Ha”

Posted on August 21, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Life, complicated though it is, is one of those things that every adult on the planet is supposed to have totally figured out. Because we’re, you know, adults, and that’s what we’re expected to do. The truth is, all appearances aside, many of us don’t and it’s this subversively Continue Reading

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Every zombie child’s favourite bedtime story: “A Brain is for Eating”

Posted on August 21, 2013August 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Ever wondered what tired zombie parents, spent from a long day wandering through empty apocalyptic landscapes scaring and eating the living,  read to their undead offspring come bedtime? (Dead or not, I am betting there’s a good chance that like children everywhere they would be a lively as hell, Continue Reading

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The Gravity of life in space: new photos released from the movie

Posted on August 20, 2013August 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  We human beings are a funny lot. We crave the certainty of routine – our regular train, our favourite restaurant with the chilli chicken dish we love so much, a morning greeting from the hunky barista – relishing the sense that everything will be just as we left it Continue Reading

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  • Book review: Swept Away by Beth O’Leary
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) As premises go, the one what washes through Swept Away by Beth O’Leary is a doozy. We are meant to believe, and honestly you will trust us, that two people can retire to a houseboat for a one-night stand and find themselves, the next day, floating to Continue Reading
  • Joy to what’s left of the world … Thoughts on Fallout S2
    The end of the world is generally considered to be a fairly awful, lawless, dark and terrible place where civility has died and base humanity rules in all its terrible glory. You know it, I know it and Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), ex-Vault 33 Dweller and unexpected wandered of the Continue Reading
  • A mini-mass of movie trailers: In the Blink of an Eye, Caterpillar + Tow
    (via Shutterstock) One of the things I love about indie films is the time they take to really tell a story. That’s not to say that more mainstream, blockbuster fare doesn’t, but smaller, more dramatic films like the three spotlighted here take the time to let the characters and narrative Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Scott Yambao
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Create a real sense of fantastical otherworldliness is not as easy it sounds. Surely, you reason, it’s simply a case of letting your imagination run free and allowing it to express itself in ways that defy any and all caveats of our actual reality? But while Continue Reading
  • A tiny ton of TV trailers: Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Lucky + How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
    (via Shutterstock) The sheer amount of programs on streaming simultaneously excites and terrifies me. I love the idea of all those amazing stories at my dispersal and how much viewing pleasure they will give me; but I also know that I don’t have the time to get to them all. Continue Reading
  • Raising the curtain is still all kinds of happily offbeat fun: Thoughts on The Muppet Show special 2026
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT It’s The Muppet Show! Kermit, Miss Piggy and the beloved Muppet gang are back with a brand-new special event. Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos are bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very special Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Is This Thing On?
    (courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that strikes you pretty quickly as you exit childhood and enter the uncertain wilds of adulthood is that many of the big moments, which Hollywood has conditioned us to believe happen in big, soap operatic scenes, actually play out in far smaller, quieter ways. It’s Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Expert System book #2)
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) If you read a lot of really good science fiction, it will become immediately apparent that imagination is rarely in short supply among the boundlessly creative authors of the genre. But what will also emerge is how imaginatively fertile some of the giants of the genre Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #132: Scandipop special feat. Chris Holsten, Tove Styrke, Janice, Cazzi Opeia + Agnes
    (via Shutterstock) I have loved Scandinavian everything since I was kid. I was fortunate that my local country NSW library stocked the Moomins, Agaton Sax and a host of other titles and that ABBA wakened me to the emerging power and captivating creativity of Northern European pop. That love of Continue Reading
  • Where it all ends … thoughts on the final season of Upload
    (courtesy IMP Awards) You kind of have to feel sorry for Upload. Created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation), Upload has the misfortune to release right in the middle of the first year of the COVID pandemic, and while that was a boon for many shows, and likely helped some Continue Reading
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