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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!

A marvelous massing of movie trailers: How I Live Now, Captain Phillips, Saving Mr Banks, The Monuments Men, CBGB

Posted on August 15, 2013August 15, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Much like the swallows arriving back en masse at Capistrano, movie trailers keep flocking to my inbox in numbers unseen since the last time they did so. Which was, you know, yesterday. And the day before and … I need to release a few every now and then, or Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Elysium”

Posted on August 15, 2013August 15, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Elysium, Neil Blomkamp’s follow up to his critically and commercially successful 2009 debut, District 9, is that rare Hollywood beast – an epic, action-packed blockbuster with the intelligence and heart-and-soul of an indie darling. Set in 2154 on an Earth so ravaged by over population, resource depletion and societal Continue Reading

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Star Wars medley: The musical Force is strong with Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens

Posted on August 14, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Ever since Zja, a friend in my writing group, a woman of expansive, adventurous and impeccable musical taste introduced me to the amazing talents of violinist Lindsey Stirling, I have been hooked. The music that this talented independent American artist (who is also a dancer, composer and performance artist Continue Reading

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Films lost and found: Movies by Buster Keaton and Orson Welles see the light of day

Posted on August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Unless you’re an archeologist in the German state of Brandeburg with a badger accidentally uncovering 12th century burial finds for you, finding anything long lost can be a long and time-consuming ordeal. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the arts where paintings, sculptures, and most pertinently to this Continue Reading

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Movie review: “The World’s End”

Posted on August 13, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There is nothing certain but death and taxes is one of those awkwardly cliched readily-accepted truisms that is trotted out whenever people are struggling to make informed comment on an unexpected turn of events. To this much-over used phrase you could well have added “… and any film by Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Behind the Candelabra”

Posted on August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Appearances are everything in the glittering world of the Steven Soderbergh-directed Liberace biopic Behind the Candelebra. From the extravagant multi-layered crystal-studded costumes that Liberace, masterfully played by Michael Douglas, wore at his twice nightly Las Vegas shows to the self-described “palatial kitsch” of his homes and apartments and even Continue Reading

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Animate me! Despicable Me’s minions go Hollywood, future Disney and Zombie Scooby Doo

Posted on August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

Animated movies have become quite the thing of late. With the really good ones combining a mixture of intelligent writing, winning characters, and delightful pop culture knowingness, they now appeal to a broad range of demographics, and not just the children of old. It all probably started with movies like Continue Reading

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Forgetful Jedi: Geek Week’s hilarious Star Wars parody

Posted on August 10, 2013August 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  So here’s the thing. You’re a noble Jedi Knight sworn to uphold freedom and justice throughout the length and breadth of the Galactic Republic. To do that you need to battle evil, cunning Sith lords from time to time, light sabres at twenty paces. And as in all titanic Continue Reading

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Falling Skies review: “Brazil” (s3, ep10)

Posted on August 10, 2013August 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  After all the long horse rides in the country, ruminations on life, the universe (pretty much literally in an alien apocalypse) and everything (usually the Masons), and lethargic inactivity of late (with the exception of the penultimate season 3 episode “Road to Xibalba” which bristled with more energy than Continue Reading

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Nowhere left to run: “The Walking Dead” cast on set season 4 trailer

Posted on August 9, 2013August 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  In the seemingly eternal lead up to the return of The Walking Dead on 13 October, AMC have released a four minute look at the filming of season 4 of the series based on the comic books by Robert Kirkman (who also acts as one of the executive producers Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) When you look at someone’s present-day life, it’s laughably easy to think that it arrived as some fully-formed agglomeration of past thoughts and deeds, feelings and mistakes and triumphs, all of them neatly woven together by the uncomplicated passage of time. But all of us know, at Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Hachette Australia) One enduring constant of life is that finding a perfect partner, or even a lovably imperfect one, is no easy thing. While Hollywood and Mills & Boon would have you believe that meet-cutes are strewn across the ground like confetti and your one and only is bound Continue Reading
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    What’s the number one certainty when it comes to big seasonal events? (Wells, besides calmly accepting that you will eat too much and that your calendar will never be big enough to accommodate all of them so FOMO is real, my friends, it is REAL). Why it’s that you don’t Continue Reading
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  • New release October book review: Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
    (courtesy Ultimo Press) Good lord but I love books which go deep and hard and yet which still manage to feel light and accessible too. There’s a real art to investing huge amounts of meaningful heart and drama into stories with a fantastical airy premise and it’s clear pretty much Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Showbiz Junkies (c) Netflix) Cake is something that you presume you will be far happier munching on than evaluating since surely all the pleasure is in the creamy, gnashy, fondanty taste and not the look, no matter how artistic and hyperealistic. But it turns out that watching people bake Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Halloween Specials Wiki) While Snoopy remains as culturally ubiquitous as ever and Peanuts is still one of the most popular comic strips out there, that has more to do these days with the number of specials and TV shows that keep popping up on AppleTV than anything else these Continue Reading
  • New releases October book review: Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin – Australia) It’s an interesting exercise diving into the sophomore follow-up to the debut effort of an author which was globally super popular and a phenomenon on all kinds of levels unto itself. For a start, millions of people around the world have been waiting eagerly Continue Reading
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