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Sneak peek: Mike and Sully do some learnin’ at “Monsters University” (trailer + poster)

Posted on February 12, 2013February 15, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I am a huge Pixar fan. Ever since my all time favourite animated film Toy Story premiered way back in 1995, triggering a renaissance in animation that hasn’t abated since, I have been in love with the gorgeous look, intelligence and humanity of Pixar movies. Though the production house is Continue Reading

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Movie review: I Give It a Year #StGeorgeOpenAir

Posted on February 10, 2013August 7, 2018 by aussiemoose

  I Give It a Year is one very confused movie. Written and directed by the Dan Mazer, who is perhaps best known as Sacha Baron-Cohen’s writing and production partner of long standing, it aims, somewhat unsuccessfully, to be all things to all moviegoers. In part, and this forms the Continue Reading

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When Ryan Gosling met Dr Who

Posted on February 9, 2013February 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

So news hot off the movie-making press is that Matt Smith (aka Dr Who) …     has been chosen to star in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How To Catch a Monster …     which also stars Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) …     as a single mother who Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Silver Linings Playbook”

Posted on February 6, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  What do you do when your entire world spectacularly, and comprehensively, falls apart? That’s the question that Silver Linings Playbook, a muscular romantic comedy and drama hybrid by David O. Russell, and based on the book by Matthew Quick, dares to pose and to be honest, for much of Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Lincoln”

Posted on February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Rarely does a movie transport you so completely to another place and time, and into the lives of the people who called that era home, such that you feel as if its evocation is more real than the time you inhabit, but Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg from a Continue Reading

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Shiny new posters for “Oz: The Great and Powerful”

Posted on February 2, 2013February 2, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Disney are certainly going to a huge amount of effort to make sure that Oz: The Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, and which makes its debut on 8 March this year, is every bit as much an event release as the original Wizard of Oz was back Continue Reading

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How cool is this? The eye-catching new poster for “Iron Man 3” (+ Superbowl trailer)

Posted on February 2, 2013February 2, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Now this, my friends, IS A POSTER. Eye-catching, stylish and telling a powerful story all in a glance. It was released yesterday as part of Disney/Marvel’s impressively imaginary marketing for the film starring Robert Downer Jr as the titular character and Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin, in a role Continue Reading

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Disney’s “Paperman” charms its way online

Posted on February 1, 2013November 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It is both a symptom of growing older and the saturation of pop culture delights that our burgeoning digital age provides us, that very little truly surprises anymore. It is not that the quality is questionable – although like anything in life, much of what is produced is of Continue Reading

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“The Muppets … Again” … again! (Plot + first official image)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by aussiemoose

  This time The Muppets are going global. traipsing across the globe on a grand adventure evoking all the delightfully silly charm and sophistication of 60s crime and spy capers like The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967). And there will be action and intrigue and no doubt humour and Continue Reading

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Movies in a hurry! Movie pictograms from H57

Posted on January 27, 2013January 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

  My lord there are some enormously creative, visionary people out there! Take Gianmarco Milesi and Matteo Civaschi from design studio H57 in Milan, Italy and the authors of lifeinfiveseconds) who have gained themselves quite a following with their imaginative Star Wars typography posters. I discovered their work on the amazing Continue Reading

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  • Festive graphic novel review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    It has to be the famous story ever told about Christmas … apart from the obvious other one, of course, where the Son of God born in a manger kicks the whole idea of Christmas off. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: The Christmas Party by Sophie Claire
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life, for all its glorious moments, rich opportunities and heartwarming interludes, can also be a cold and brutal place. We all know that; we’ve been there, seen it doing its dark and uncaring thing and wondered how something that can be so good, so uplifting and wondrous Continue Reading
  • On 10th day of Christmas … I listened to two more festive albums – Molly Johnson’s It’s a Snow Globe World and A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas
    (via Shutterstock) It’s a Snow Globe World by Molly Johnson (courtesy SoundCloud) If you’re a Canadian, you will be well and truly familiar with the towering musical presence that is Molly Johnson, a singer active since 1979 who excels in delivering pop and jazz numbers with evocatively soulful ease and Continue Reading
  • On the Christmas cover! Gromit and Shaun the Sheep together for the first time in 30 years
    (courtesy Radio Times) What a delight! Shaun the Sheep has joined Gromit, of legendary Wallace and Gromit fame, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Close Shave which saw Shaun enter the home of perhaps Aardman Animation’s most well-known creations, and devour everything in sight! The third instalment in the Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Zootopia 2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Is it possible for a sequel to better or at least emphatically equal its predecessor? Most of the time the answer to that question, especially when it comes to movies is a firm and unequivocal “NO!” but in the case of Zootopia 2, the sequel to 2016’s Continue Reading
  • On 9th day of Christmas … I watched Home for Christmas (Hjem til jul) S3
    (courtesy Netflix) One of the most enduring of recent festive viewing traditions has been the Home for Christmas (Hjem til jul) series, now in its third season, which offers up gently soap operatic storytelling with an almost tangible sense of what we think Christmas should look and feel like. Unlike Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: The Christmas Carrolls: The Christmas Club by Mel Taylor-Bessent
    (courtesy Harper Collins Booksellers Australia) Giving your inner festive child a reviving taste of what it should be like when Christmas rolled around is never a bad thing. That’s why this reviewer often reads books aimed at kids because they perfectly capture the joy and exhilaration of being a kid Continue Reading
  • On 8th day of Christmas … I watched A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Full disclosure upfront: I am one of those consumers of pop culture in all kinds of forms who has never really listened to a Jonas Brothers song. That’s not the result of snobbery or age – though I can safely say, without giving too much away, that Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky
    In a world that always feel a little bit broken, a little less than wonderful and a whole lot disappointing, depending on the day, perfection seems like a wholly alluring idea. Especially when, like vintage goods store owner Henry Aster, you have recently found the man you were convinced was Continue Reading
  • On 7th day of Christmas, I listened to Christmastime by Trisha Yearwood and Verve: Remixed Holiday
    (via Shutterstock) Christmastime by Trisha Yearwood (courtesy Apple Music) Trisha Yearwood’s new album Christmastime is as good a reminder as any that it’s best to always hold onto your expectations loosely and to never let them get in the way of experiencing something new. Initially dismissed by this reviewer because Continue Reading
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