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Are we going to back to Stars Hollow for more Gilmore Girls? Don’t pack your bags just yet

Posted on August 4, 2018August 4, 2018 by aussiemoose

  It has oft been said that you can’t go back, and while that’s true in lots of instances, it’s increasingly not the case when it comes to old TV shows. Why even Frasier might be coming back to our increasingly-crowded screens! Of course, Gilmore Girls has already returned to Continue Reading

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Retro movie review: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

Posted on August 1, 2018August 1, 2018 by aussiemoose

  We are an easily frightened species it seems. While we like to cloak ourselves in the spirit of the enlightenment and speak to our embrace of reason and logic – not everyone,  of course, as current events in certain countries give confronting testimony to – it doesn’t take much Continue Reading

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You can ask Saoirse Ronan 73 questions! Well, vicariously anyway

Posted on August 1, 2018July 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT While packing for an Ireland-bound flight, Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan answers 73 questions from Vogue. Saoirse talks about her famously difficult first name, the causes closest to her heart, and best advice she’s ever received. (synopsis via Laughing Squid (c) Conde Nast Entertainment) You only have to see Continue Reading

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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies – the ultimate superhero film?

Posted on July 31, 2018July 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  I love cartoons, yes even as an adult, and I love inventive parodies, so it mystifies me how I managed to miss a single episode of the hit Cartoon Networks’ show Teen Titans, an animated superhero series created by Glen Murakamia based on a series of 1980s comic books, Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it: Romance is undeniably alive and well in A Date in 2025

Posted on July 29, 2018July 27, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the year 2025, a young man’s super-intelligent AI system tells him that he must go on a date or face certain suicide from loneliness. (synopsis via Vimeo) Going online has really made a huge change to the way we find the love of our life. (Exhibit A Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Breaker Upperers

Posted on July 28, 2018July 27, 2018 by aussiemoose

  We live in an age where pretty much everything is outsourced. IT, phone services, shopping, even essay writing if you’re an unscrupulous uni student; so why not breaking up with someone, which I think we can all agree is of the worst things anyone ever has the misfortune to Continue Reading

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Tons o’ #SDCC trailers: Origins, FTWD, Nightflyers, Disenchantment, SHAZAM! + lots more (bonus The Good Place gag reel)

Posted on July 28, 2018July 26, 2018 by aussiemoose

  As always lots of pop culture goodness came cascading out of San Diego Comic Con wrapped up just under a week ago. This intro is far too short a beast to capture it all which is why you check out Den of Geek’s excellent round-up which has all the Continue Reading

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“What should happen if you forget about me?” Remind yourself with lovely photos from Christopher Robin

Posted on July 27, 2018July 25, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure “Disney’s Christopher Robin,” the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into Continue Reading

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Lin-Manuel your Miranda! Deadpool 2 is gifted a musical parody

Posted on July 25, 2018July 23, 2018 by aussiemoose

  In the beginning was Deadpool and behold he was very good – raunchy, funny, irreverent, in-your-face, trope-smashingly good. He begat, as is so often the way in the mist-shrouded, bottom-line driven ways of Hollywood studios (who also care about artistic creativity too of course; hahahahaha, good one, Andrew) Deadpool Continue Reading

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Home is calling: Plunge beneath the sea with Aquaman (trailer + poster)

Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Following the events of Justice League, Arthur Curry, the reluctant ruler of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, is caught in a battle between surface dwellers that threaten his oceans and his own people, who are ready to lash out and invade the surface. (Wikipedia) I was never one Continue Reading

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  • Retro Christmas movie review: Haul Out the Holly
    (courtesy IMDb) There’s a strange disconnect that can emerge when you’re consuming festively themed pop culture – for instance, you might be perfectly fine with reading endlessly escapist, coincidence-full rom-com novels but find their Hallmark equivalents to be a Christmassy bridge too far. You know there’s a strange kind of Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: Alice by Christina Henry
    It’s quite the thing these days to take a classic novel as inspiration, or even an ancient one in some cases, and take it to new and exciting places that honour the original work and author but explore new territory. In many cases, it’s done brilliantly and originally well, as Continue Reading
  • The spirit of Halloween future: Teaser trailer for 2026’s Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns into mad scientist to help fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… With Continue Reading
  • Halloween retro animated movie: Coraline
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There’s often admittance by people that they are “late to the party”, as if watching or reading or whatever something long after it’s come out – or sometimes, mere weeks, such is the frantic and unforgiving pace of the modern digital age which eats its newly-released young Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: The Last Bookstore on Earth
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Any time any author decides to take a well-established genre, give it a good shake-up and reshape its form entirely is a good time. Especially when it comes one as well-trafficked as the end-of-the-world genre which has been pretty much full-to-bursting with zombies and aliens and Continue Reading
  • Halloween Family Guy special 2025: “A Little Fright Music” (review)
    (courtesy IMDb) Halloween is definitely the one festival of the year where you are fully and absolutely allowed to get your freak on, to let loose, defy assumptions and expectations … and lie to your wives about going trick or treating? Hmmmm, not sure the last one is really part Continue Reading
  • Book review: Our Life in a Day by Jamie Fewery
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Whenever we’re asked to pick the highlights for anything, whether it’s a relationship or an overseas trip or our childhood, we unerringly pick the glowingly positive high points, driven by some unspoken acknowledgement that for something to be a highlight it must have unquestionably upbeat qualities. But Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: It’s garden gnomes vs. golf club in FOREVER
    (courtesy YouTube (c) Omeleto) SNAPSHOTThe story begins in a cheerful and peaceful backyard garden, where brightly painted gnomes stand proudly among flowers and trimmed grass in quirky poses and scenarios. Bathed in sunlight and silence, their existence is static yet content. But their serene existence is disrupted when a golf Continue Reading
  • Book review: Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It is hard, if not next to impossible when you are caught down in the depths of grief and loss, and the suffocating smallness of life that often comes with it, not to feel as if there is any hope left in life. But as Continue Reading
  • Molly does her best to live up to her promise in Loot S3, E1-3 (review)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) The great joy of Loot, not just in the first three episodes of its third season but in the first two superlative seasons too, is that it is just so damn funny. Not just funny bog standard ordinary but cleverly inspired, oneliner-quoting funny, the kind of sitcom Continue Reading
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