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It’s coming soon sweetie darling! Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (full trailer)

Posted on May 1, 2016April 29, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch Continue Reading

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The Simpsons go Disney in latest hilarious couch gag

Posted on April 30, 2016April 26, 2016 by aussiemoose

  The Simpsons couch gags are damn near legendary. For 27 seasons, the show hailed by The A. V. Club as “television’s crowning achievement regardless of format”, has begun each episode with a humorous depiction of the show’s titular working class family settling into their living room ready to watch TV. Continue Reading

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Independence Day: Resurgence – Another battle we cannot win … or can we?

Posted on April 30, 2016May 4, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT We always knew they were coming back. After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can Continue Reading

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Movie review: Mother’s Day

Posted on April 29, 2016April 28, 2016 by aussiemoose

  If there’s one thing that Hollywood, and in this case director Garry Marshall, likes more, well quite possibly than mothers themselves, it’s a good old, well-used formula. Worry not about well-rounded characters, authenticity of any kind and emotions that even come close to ringing true; no, what you need Continue Reading

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You know his name: Welcome back Jason Bourne! (Trailer + poster)

Posted on April 26, 2016April 22, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in “Jason Bourne.” Paul Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading

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Looking for Mr. Right? Be careful what you wish for

Posted on April 24, 2016April 17, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Mr. Right, written by Landis and directed by Paco Cabezas, stars the ever-talented Sam Rockwell and the ever-likeable Anna Kendrick. Kendrick plays the quirky Martha who gets her heart broken after catching her boyfriend cheating on her. She seems to give up on finding a good man until Continue Reading

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Movie review: Midnight Special

Posted on April 23, 2016November 18, 2016 by aussiemoose

  If you have ever wondered how completely and to what ends a father could believe in and love his son, then look no further than Mike Nichols’ latest masterpiece, Midnight Special, for the answer. While the film is ostensibly about a remarkable 8 year old boy Alton Meyer (Jaeden Continue Reading

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Imagining Zootopia: What it took to make this amazing animated film

Posted on April 23, 2016April 17, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT What did it take to bring the world of ‘Zootopia’ to life? Fusion spent two years with the production team of Disney’s smash hit film. In ‘Imagining Zootopia,’ you will travel with the team to Africa to explore the animals in their natural habitat and find out how Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Jungle Book

Posted on April 20, 2016April 19, 2016 by aussiemoose

  It is a rare and wondrous thing indeed to be transported by a film so completely far away from the everyday grind that you almost forget you are sitting in a cinema watching it all unfold. But that miraculous feat is accomplished within seconds of Jon Favreau’s delightful live Continue Reading

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The short and the short of it film festival : 3 quirky animated films with unlikely heroes

Posted on April 20, 2016April 17, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Short films are a wonderful thing. They allow you to enter someone’s world for a brief point in time, catch a ride on the narrative of their life for a stop or two and then leap, wiser, enthralled and amused for having met them. The really good ones, and Continue Reading

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  • “My childhood has lead to me to this moment…” Stuart Fails to Save the Universe drops a teaser trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTComic book store owner Stuart Bloom (starring Kevin Sussman) is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain Continue Reading
  • Latest releases May book review: The Name Game by Beth O’Leary
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) It’s a truism of any form of storytelling that genres generally come with cast-iron rules. If you want to write in those genres, and have people, in this case, read your books, you have to include certain tropes and cliches to keep the punters happy; however, simply Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Swapped
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you are looking for a potent shot of animated joy into your moviegoing veins, then look no further than the vibrantly colourful and emotionally rich world of Swapped. Overflowing with gobsmackingly wonderful imaginative world-building, the best this reviewer has seen the criminally underrated wonder of Disney’s Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: Finding home is a real adventure in Quack!
    (courtesy ESMA) SNAPSHOTTheCGBros presents Quack! by ESMA – a huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A duckling comes out, and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother. (Un gros œuf s’échoue près du ruisseau où vivent Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Good Boy by Michelle Wright
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) There are some books you read, and then are others, and good lord if Good Boy by Michelle Wright isn’t one of them, that you experience, you live, you breathe and you don’t soon forget. A novel about the most unique of second chances, Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Remarkably Bright Creatures
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you had someone die who was absolutely central to your world, and whose absence makes it feel considerably smaller and barren, then you will understand the wholly disorienting sense of everything feeling like it just STOPS. The world might keep moving around you with its customary Continue Reading
  • It’s time for a closer look at the unsettling mystery of The Boroughs
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If you have even a modicum of self awareness and personal integrity, the idea of pretending to be something you’re not often doesn’t sit well with you. The only way you can live with a fake persona and your real self sitting cheek-by-jowl is to Continue Reading
  • There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood
    (courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Sheep Detectives
    (courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading
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