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The greatest movie ever assembled: “The Lego Movie” teaser trailer

Posted on June 30, 2013July 1, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The 3D animated adventure tells the story of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: “Drinking Buddies”

Posted on June 29, 2013June 29, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) work together at a craft brewery. They have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. But Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is with Jill (Anna Kendrick). And Jill wants to know if Luke Continue Reading

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Movie trailer-palooza: “Pacific Rim”, “Jobs”, “Thanks For Sharing”, “The Counsellor”, “The Spectacular Now”

Posted on June 28, 2013June 28, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There are so many movies on the way to the cinema at any one time, and by extension a dizzying array of  accompanying trailers that you could be forgiven for wondering if you will have to camp out at the cinema with a Coke drip and an endless candy Continue Reading

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A magical look at the before and after VFX of “The Great Gatsby”

Posted on June 25, 2013June 25, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Whatever your views on the merits or otherwise of Baz Luhrmann’s much-ballyhooed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic, era-defining novel The Great Gatsby – just for the record I am a fan – one thing is for sure – the man knows his way around sumptuous visuals. His lavish Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: “We’re the Millers”

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

  SNAPSHOT David Burke (Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes Continue Reading

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Movie review: “World War Z”

Posted on June 20, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  On your marks … Get set … RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! That may sound like a flippant way to commence a review of one of the most terrifyingly-realistic, taut zombo-apocalyptic thrillers I have ever seen, but it is essentially the imperative that drives this relentlessly full speed ahead heart-constantly-in-mouth Continue Reading

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Watch out for flying carrots! Disney’s hilarious teaser trailer for “Frozen”

Posted on June 19, 2013June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa Continue Reading

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It’s better up there … new thrilling extended “Elysium” trailer hits orbit

Posted on June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration Continue Reading

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On your marks … Brad Pitt races from the zombies in new clip from “World War Z”

Posted on June 18, 2013June 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.  Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade Continue Reading

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Zoom away with the “Man of Steel”

Posted on June 16, 2013June 17, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I will be honest. I have never been a massive fan of Superman. To be fair, I have not exactly been a card-carrying flag-waving (should that be cape-waving?) member of the Superhero Fanclub. As a child I read British comics such as Cheeky, Buster, and Whizzer and Chips instead Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s well recognised time memories are a wholly unreliable witness. We might think we are recalling things exactly as they are, but when the truth of the matter surfaces, it soon becomes clear that we remember is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth but Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) How do you, to wildly and wilfully paraphrase a song from The Sound of Music, solve a problem like keeping a franchise fresh and vital years after the height of its emergent and zeitgeist dominating popularity? It’s a great and enduring conundrum, one given even more present Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Text Publishing) We all crave a place to belong. There’s an innate drive to find our tribe, our people which defines all of us, with the presence of whatever we know as family enriching us and its absence impoverishing and isolating in ways innumerable. In short, we need companions Continue Reading
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