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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!

Just one more episode of “Battlestar Galactica”

Posted on October 6, 2012October 5, 2012 by aussiemoose

  We’ve all been there. Well at least the TV obsessives among us. You unwrap a shiny new DVD box set, swearing to yourself you will only watch one, at most two episodes, and find yourself hours later still sitting on the couch wondering where the time went. I still Continue Reading

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Season return: “New Girl” (season 2)

Posted on October 5, 2012October 5, 2012 by aussiemoose

  New Girl has debuted its sophomore season and it is as fresh and funny as ever. While Jess (Zooey Deschanel)  is still very much the focus of the show, the ensemble vibe that increasingly defined the show in the second half of season 1 is back stronger than ever, Continue Reading

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ABBA news: Agnetha’s back!

Posted on October 5, 2012October 5, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Once an ABBA fan, always an ABBA fan. It’s a truism that I fought for years for some reason but have come to embrace wholeheartedly as I have realised that you can take a boy quite a way from the 1970s and his ABBA obsession but you can’t take Continue Reading

Posted In MusicTagged In Agnetha Faltskog

Ellen DeGeneres honoured with Mark Twain Prize for American Prize

Posted on October 4, 2012October 24, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Ellen DeGeneres, who began her showbiz career as a stand up comedian in her native New Orleans with wholly unique, and very funny, observations on the minutiae of everyday life, and now hosts the biggest chat show on day time TV, has added another string to her bow with Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In Ellen DeGeneres

First impressions: Revolution

Posted on October 4, 2012May 14, 2019 by aussiemoose

Revolution, the new show by J J Abrams, the TV wunderkind who has so far dazzled us with Lost, Fringe and Alias, and somewhat disappointed us with Alcatraz (and Lost – let’s be honest the ending was, um, you know, not great) has arrived after much fanfare. And surprise, surprise, Continue Reading

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Adele is happy to let the “Skyfall” on her

Posted on October 3, 2012 by aussiemoose

  I am a reent convert to the Bond franchise it has to be said, and much of my new found enthusiasm for Bond, James Bond, has much to do with the actor now playing him, Daniel  Craig. Lest you think it is a physical attraction only, I will acknowledge Continue Reading

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Seth McFarlane (“Family Guy”, “TED”) to host 2013 Academy Awards

Posted on October 2, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Staid image begone! I can’t be completely certain that’s what the Oscars guardians said to each other as they plotted and planned next year’s 85th Academy Awards but that is surely the message being sent by the appointment of Seth MacFarlane to host the Awards ceremony. McFarlane who is the creator Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Looper”

Posted on October 2, 2012October 2, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Looper is an audacious movie. It’s not only a futuristic noir thriller, replete with seedy dissolute gang bosses, a decadent criminal culture, and junkie hit men “living the good life” but it is also jammed to the philosophical gills with all manner of deep, probing existential questions about fate, Continue Reading

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“Doctor Who” farewells Amy and Rory

Posted on October 1, 2012July 6, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * SPOILERS ALERT * The departure of a major character from a show, whether universally loved, ambivalently tolerated or loathed with a passion is never easy. However you handle it, you run the risk of upsetting fans, ripping the heart out of the show, and upsetting the delicate equilibrium Continue Reading

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Backstage with the stars of TV (1)

Posted on September 30, 2012October 12, 2012 by aussiemoose

  One of the biggest revolutions of late has been the way that social media has totally transformed the way stars of any stripe interact with their fans. Avid followers of everyone from pop singers to movie stars to sports gods can now tweet or send a message via Facebook Continue Reading

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  • Book review: Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) It’s all too easy to have someone create your life story for you. None of us set out to do that, of course; we dream and plan and hope based on the very firm idea that we are the masters of our destiny but somehow we Continue Reading
  • “Hi Carol. We’re so glad you called” … Full trailer lands for new Vince Gilligan show, Pluribus
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOT“A new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.” The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. The series is set in a present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico that faced an abrupt change away from the world as it is known. Pluribus is a sci-fi Continue Reading
  • Book review: Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) The grand and noble quest across vast distance in pursuit of the decisive victory of good over evil is a staple of fantasy novels. It crops up again and again and for very good reason – here is the perfect vehicle for putting disparate people together, Continue Reading
  • Movie review: French Lover
    (courtesy IMDb) Let’s be clear right from the start – French Lover doesn’t exactly reinvent the romantic comedy model. Channelling a very Notting Hill vibe but with the status of the sexes reversed, French Lover takes a charming and very funny journey of two people, one a famous A-list movie Continue Reading
  • Just can’t get enough … Thoughts on English Teacher S2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) On the surface, and what a thoroughly entertaining surface it is, English Teacher, now in its second season, is a series about goofily relatable teachers at a high school in Austin, Texas, possessed of witty banter, life weary observances and the need to have their wits about Continue Reading
  • Take the plunge with the fun new trailer for The Pout-Pout Fish
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo aquatic misfits embark on an impossible journey to save their home. Living on a rundown shipwreck, Mr. Fish discovers a hyperactive young sea dragon Pip – who had mistaken his home for a junkyard – pilfering his belongings. The heated argument that ensues leaves both their Continue Reading
  • Book review: Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood
    (courtesy Text Publishing) Life, so youthful expectation dreamily romanticises, is supposed to fall into all kinds of predictable (and, of course, satisfyingly successful) places. But as we all soon discover, some more than others, life is not to be dictated to, benignly and excitedly or otherwise, and so what often Continue Reading
  • Christmas movie preview: Jingle Bell Heist, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Champagne Problems + My Secret Santa
    (via Shutterstock) If you have only ever paid passing attention to this blog, and seriously, why would you not dive into its wonderfully eclectic depths (a conversation for another time perhaps?), you will realise that I LOVE Christmas. LOVE. IT. The apartments gets decorated within an inch of its life. Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Movie trilogies are often, though not always, governed by the wholly unforgiving law of diminishing returns. What was vital and fresh in the first film becomes diluted though often still appealing in the second film all of which means that by the third instalment, there is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Maskeys by Stuart Everly-Wilson
    (courtesy Transit Lounge Publishing) Despite this book’s title, The Maskeys, and no, this does not require a spoiler alert, are not the centrepiece of the novel which bears their rather blighted name. Penned by Stuart Everly-Wilson, who brought us the superlatively good Low Expectations, The Maskeys revolves instead around Rodney, Continue Reading
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