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“You can’t escape him!” Obi-Wan Kenobi debuts first full trailer

Posted on May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTThe story in this new series begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat—the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as the evil Sith Lord Continue Reading

How did the Star Wars Holiday Special come to be? Wonder no more #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Posted on May 4, 2022May 2, 2022 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTA long time ago in living rooms across the US, a bizarre 98-minute Star Wars-themed variety show aired on CBS to an estimated 13 million viewers. It wasn’t necessarily the first of its kind: hosts like Donny & Marie Osmond and Richard Pryor had done TV variety shows with Star Continue Reading

All aboard the crazy train: Thoughts on Russian Doll (S2)

Posted on May 1, 2022December 19, 2022 by aussiemoose

Most people, but granted not all people will, if they have unresolved issues with their past, head off to see a therapist to talk it all out and hopefully find some sort of closure, elusive though that often proves to be. Not, Russian Doll‘s Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne, who created Continue Reading

Off voyaging with newly-released Star Trek: Strange New World’s opening titles

Posted on April 30, 2022April 30, 2022 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTThe series follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy during the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series. (synopsis courtesy Wikipedia) I am huge fan of multi-layered, season-long or series-long arc storytelling in Star Trek of the Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 6 – North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Sweden (semi-final 2, part 3) + Semi-final 2 top 10 picks

Posted on April 30, 2022May 14, 2022 by aussiemoose

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 5 – Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Montenegro (semi-final 2, part 2)

Posted on April 23, 2022April 22, 2022 by aussiemoose

The beginning of one thing can be the rest of everything: Get ready to fall in love with Heartstopper

Posted on April 22, 2022April 20, 2022 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTThe story of two British teens, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together in class. Their friendship quickly becomes something more for openly gay Charlie, but he Continue Reading

Weekday streaming pop art: Character posters for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Posted on April 20, 2022April 13, 2022 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Strange New Worlds features Anson Mount as Captain Pike alongside Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn who also reprise their Discovery roles as Spock and Number One, a.k.a. Una Chin-Riley, respectively. Filling out the crew of the USS Enterprise are Jess Bush (Skinford) as Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Continue Reading

When time is broken and reality is screwed: Thoughts on Picard (S2, E 1-5)

Posted on April 19, 2022April 13, 2022 by aussiemoose

SPOILERS AHEAD … AND RIFTS IN TIME AND THE SOUL WHERE IT’S DARK, VERY DARK, INDEED … You would scarcely have called Picard season 1 a lighthearted romp in the park, full as it ruminatively was with thoughts on grief, loss, bigotry, hatred and paths not travelled (and profound regret Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 4 – Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia (semi-final 2, part 1)

Posted on April 17, 2022April 14, 2022 by aussiemoose

Graphic novel review: Void Rivals Vol. 1 More Than Meets the Eye by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici and Matheus Lopes

(courtesy Image Comics) Storytelling universes are very much in vogue in Hollywood at the moment. The most well-known and most successful of the lot of them is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there are a great many far less successful pretenders to the throne including the D.C. Comics take on Continue Reading

The world deserves a better ending: Thoughts on Fallout

(courtesy IMP Awards) Apocalypses are not generally laugh-out-loud affairs, what with all the death, destruction, end of civilisation hanging over everything and such, and Fallout, based on the role-playing video game of the same name, is not, for the most part an exception. Set roughly two hundred or so years Continue Reading

Book review: Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

(courtesy Allen & Unwin) No one wants to think they’re a terrible person. If we’re honest, we all want to be the hero, the saviour, the flawlessly giving and selfless person that people laud and talk about with breathless wonder, someone people want to be friends with and love and Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 6 – Malta, Netherlands, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland (Semi final 2, part 3) + Eurovision stage revealed!

Off to the movies we go! Enjoy the trailers for Summer Camp and Cora Bora

(via Shutterstock) Movies that combine a sense of escapist fun and some meaningful, if light, explorations of love and humanity are always just what this cinema doctor ordered. This time around there are not one but two movies on offer, both of which diversionarily delightful and guaranteed to put a Continue Reading

Book review: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Working out when you should walk away from something you love is always tough. The reason you’ve stuck out a particular gig for so long is the very thing that keeps you anchored there, and while longevity of occupation in a particular place or occupation doesn’t always Continue Reading

“I don’t know anything about saving worlds, but you do!” Trailer and posters drop for Deadpool & Wolverine

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTDeadpool will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Wolverine. Or will he?! The third movie in the Deadpool franchise, Deadpool & Wolverine, formerly known as just Deadpool 3, is directed by the American producer / filmmaker Shawn Levy, director of many movies including Just Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: The reality-bending truth of Regular Rabbit

(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe good name of a seemingly regular rabbit falls victim to an unstoppable tide of disinformation. [YouTube intro] This Regular Rabbit short is created and 3D-animated and written and directed by animation filmmaker Eoin Duffy – originally from Ireland, now based in Vancouver, BC. You can see more Continue Reading

Comics review: Dunce – Arctic Tales by Jens K Styve

(courtesy & (c) official Jens K Styve site) Discovering a new gold standard comic strip is always a rare and precious joy. While there are a lot of very good comic strips out there, few merit a “drop everything and look here!” response with this reviewer’s attention only being seized Continue Reading

Star Trek: Discovery S5 review: Episodes 3 (“Jinaal”) and 4 (“Face the Strange”)

(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 3: “Jinaal” While treasure hunts are lots of fun and give a competitively frenetic sheen to birthday parties and even weekends away with friends, they’re not the most efficient way to find things. But then, a party host is not trying to fill a streaming season’s Continue Reading