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Christmas in July #2: I read A Sesame Street Christmas by Pat Tornborg

Posted on July 8, 2018July 6, 2018 by aussiemoose

  If you’re a big kid at heart, and honestly where is the fun in not being one, then you’ll adore the idea of immersing in the loveliness and bonhomie of A Sesame Street Christmas. First published in by Golden Books in 1982 with a delightful story of the Muppets Continue Reading

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No calm after the storm: Fear the Walking Dead debuts S4b poster + trailer

Posted on July 7, 2018July 23, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading

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Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters

Posted on July 6, 2018June 29, 2018 by aussiemoose

  I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading

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LONGEST. FLIGHT. EVER. What happened to the much-delayed passengers of Manifest?

Posted on July 4, 2018July 3, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Manifest begins “when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up Continue Reading

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Who is responsible for the distinctive look of sitcoms? You might be surprised

Posted on July 4, 2018July 2, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis, the silent film classic. But then he designed the set for I Love Lucy – the first of the multicam, laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Today, they look bland, but it wasn’t always that way. But at the time, Freund had a Continue Reading

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Colony: “The Big Empty” (S3, E9 review)

Posted on July 3, 2018July 3, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … TORTURE AND GRIEF’S PARTIAL RESOLUTION Ask anyone who has experienced immense and immeasurable grief to describe it in any way. Odds are you will be given a bewildered look and an exhausted shrug of the shoulders accompanied by a haunting look in the eyes that this Continue Reading

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Trio o’ TV trailers: Disenchantment, Wellington Paranormal, Nightflyers

Posted on June 30, 2018June 30, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Oh boy do we need more TV shows! Actually in the strictest not really since, unless you’re some kind of automaton (and if you are, when’s Skynet making their move, please?), no one really has the time in Peak Glut TV for any more programs in their schedule but Continue Reading

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It’s a Jurassic World … or is it?! A professor weighs on the accuracy of TV and movie dinosaurs

Posted on June 27, 2018June 25, 2018 by aussiemoose

  Like many other people, I have long held a fascination for dinosaurs of all shapes and stripes. Doesn’t matter if its Stegosaurus or T-Rex, Velociraptor or a plesiosaur, dinosaurs captured my imagination very early on, and to my very adult joy, haven’t loosened their hold at all in the Continue Reading

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Colony: “Lazarus” (S3, E8 review)

Posted on June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS DUPLICITY, ARROGANCE AND SOME UNNERVINGLY OPAQUE AGENDAS So how’s that whole Seattle as the promised land of post-grief/current-grief/no one is talking about the grief living going there Bowmans? I mean Daltons? Ah whatever the hell you’re calling yourself today. Not so great, I’d Continue Reading

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HBO is hoping you won’t avoid these Sharp Objects

Posted on June 26, 2018June 24, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The limited series’ chilling new trailer follows journalist Camille Preaker (Adams) as she returns to her hometown to cover the story of two murdered young girls. (synopsis (c) Paste Magazine) You know how small towns are supposed to be warm, cosy bastions of love, acceptance and a surfeit Continue Reading

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    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Like many other people, I am well acquainted with Walt Hitman’s immortal line “I contain multitudes”, taken from his poem “Song of Myself, 51”. It is one of those popularly understood but not always fully ruminated on lines that resonate with people, even if many of us Continue Reading
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    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTWhat if you could open a doorway and walk through it and re-live a defining moment from your past? Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are both single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) I am not one of those consumers of books and movies and TV shows that recoils in horror whenever a story or a set of characters which originated in one medium make the leap to another. In fact, watching these people or a much enjoyed Continue Reading
  • “Let’s get lucky, shall we?” Fallout debuts an epic season two trailer
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) If I am going to be completely honest, when I saw the trailer for Leanne, I was not overly impressed. It came across as one of those tired, laugh track-heavy efforts with lacklustre plotting, punchline jokes that stick out like a sore, barely-funny thumb, and no sense Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“You’re the only friend I ever had…” The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized [sic] as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives Continue Reading
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