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The short and the short of it: Emily and reflections on a life most floral

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTAn elderly florist looks back at her life. After a lifetime devoted to sowing love with her flowers, will she ever harvest? (synopsis via Vimeo (c) HALAL) The Dutch Oscar® submission in the Animated Short Film Category in 2018, Emily, directed by Marlies van der Wel (who is also responsible Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: “Away” by Florian Petiteau

Posted on April 6, 2021April 3, 2021 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTTheCGBros Presents Away by Florian Petiteau. Away, [the] short story of a dreaming stone, is a 3D animated short directed by Florian Petiteau with music composed by Valentin Petiteau. Away is about a stone stuck on his mountain dreaming of going to see the sea. (synopsis via YouTube) There is Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: The soothing brilliance of night skies over Colorado

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTImagine if you could see the Milky Way from your front porch? If you live in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado, you can. The valley is home to Westcliffe and Silver Cliff International Dark-Sky Association Dark Sky Communities, where night sky quality is shielded from excessive light pollution through Continue Reading

Every path has a price: The Last of Us drops a bleak, horror-filled but compelling full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“You can’t stop this.” After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope. Five years after the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world Continue Reading
Oscars catch-up movie review: A Real Pain
(courtesy IMP Awards) Much as we like to think we are up and close and personal with real life, that we are intimately and bruisingly acquainted with the slings and arrows of grave fortune, we are, for the greater part protected and inured to the horrors that simply being alive Continue Reading
Break out of your role: Thoughts on Interior Chinatown
(courtesy IMP Awards) How powerful are the stories we tell ourselves, individually and as a society? Pretty damn powerful if Interior Chinatown is to be believed, a streaming show based on Charles Yu’s book of the same name that takes meta (the idea, not the company, thank you) to a Continue Reading
Left to their own devices … Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight trailer
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTIn the midst of the first millennium, Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul — the home of Astérix and Obélix. The secret to the Gauls’ battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master is struck by amnesia, the villagers are Continue Reading
Fire up the streaming algorithm! Two new shows for your viewing delight – The Studio and Government Cheese
(via Shutterstock) The bounty of streaming continues! True, finding the time to watch it all is a challenge – I’m not sure when TV went from escapist fun to a timetabling-intensive pursuit but here we are – but with so many great shows to watch, it’s the kind of challenge Continue Reading
Book review: Death Valley by Melissa Broder
(courtesy Bloomsbury.com) One of the qualities most lauded among people under stress is the ability to go on face of incalculable and often heavily wearing odds. And while resilience in any form is to be admired, what is frequently missed when we are admiringly placing people under great duress on Continue Reading
Grab the popcorn! It’s time for another mini-mass of movie trailers – Night of the Zoopocalypse, A Nice Indian Boy + Bullet Train Explosion
(via Shutterstock) A mixed bag at the cinema this time around but who doesn’t love some eclectic popcorn and choc top-accompanied visual entertainment? Bring it on and let’s giddily switch between animation and rom-com and action, a genre expansive romp through the movies which can only do us good. Well, Continue Reading
AFFFF25 movie review: Souleymane’s Story (L’Histoire de Souleymane)
(courtesy IMDb) When did compassion become a dirty word? In our modern age of plenty and digital connectivity when we should be feeling that we are more of a community than not, humanity is pulling up the drawbridge and staring stonily, and often with bristling, cruel hatred, at those looking Continue Reading
Book review: Never Ever Forever by Karina May
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Falling in love is really quite delightful. Stating the obvious there I know, but sometimes when you dive into a rom-com that’s not exactly humming along on all rose-petal fueled cylinders, you could be forgiven for wondering if it’s worth all of the misassumptions, toing-and-froing and Continue Reading
The silly and the serious, the cartoonish and the evil: Doctor Who drops new S2/S15 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… [Doctor Who] audiences will join The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on an epic quest to get Belinda back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, ferocious enemies and wilder terrors Continue Reading