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Happy pop culture new year everyone!

Posted on December 31, 2018December 31, 2018 by aussiemoose

Here’s to more movies, books, songs, TV shows, cartoon and comic strips and so much more in 2019!

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Deep TBR June book review: All the Beautiful Things You Love by Jonathan Seidler
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) How do you get over a broken heart? Especially one ten years in the making? It’s a question with a huge and open-ended answer, an unwelcome one that Elly has to grapple with when her boyfriend of ten years and husband of less than a year Continue Reading
“There’s too much at stake…” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds drops a brilliant new trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Season 4, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise — led by Captain Christopher Pike — embarks on a series of thrilling & emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they’ll battle inner demons & external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite Continue Reading
Deep TBR June book review: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore (2023)
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) As a content writer by trade and a reader of 55 years standing or so, I am a huge fan of writing that sings and comes alive, of words fairly dancing off the page and not simply impressing the mind but filling the heart with Continue Reading
Movie review: Disclosure Day
(courtesy IMP Awards) As mysteries go, and yes, the world appears to be full of them contrary to all appearances, the huge question about whether aliens exists, and even more pertinently in the case of this review, whether they have visited us, is a BIG one. People debate it endlessly, Continue Reading
“Everyone thinks teenage relationships don’t last” … but what if they do, asks Heartstopper Forever
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHeartstopper Forever, written by Oseman and based on the highly anticipated final installment of their graphic novel series, bids farewell to a group of friends who have won viewers’ hearts since the series debuted in 2022. “Heartstopper starts like a fairy tale and a bit idealistic, in Continue Reading
You’re invited to a strange new community … thoughts on The Boroughs
(courtesy IMP Awards) Any time a streaming series subverts expectations it’s a very good thing. While there’s nothing wrong of course coming straight out and delivering what it says it’s going to since sometimes all we need is uncomplicated narrative certainty, having a series take its initial, obvious premise and Continue Reading
Deep TBR June book review: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (2025)
(Pan Macmillan Australia) Somewhere back in the dim dark days of my youth, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the world wasn’t ending at the hands of several hundred disparate and palpable threats, I was heavily into crime fiction. To be more exact, the books of Agatha Christie which my Continue Reading
Get animated! Trailers drops for Pixar’s Gatto and Disney’s Hexed
(via Shutterstock) I am just a big kid at heart. And while there are some parade rainers and miserable naysayers out there who would ridicule me, a man who is most certainly not a child, for liking animated storytelling, I prefer to celebrate the fact that my inner child is Continue Reading
Is it the end of the world or a new beginning? The Dog Stars asks some very big, action-packed questions
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“The end of the world was just the beginning.” 🛩️ Set in Colorado after the world’s population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #138: Lady Gaga + Doechii, Nelly Furtado, Hyd, Robyn and Marley Wildthing + EXTRA! Toy Story 5 song by Taylor Swift
(via Shutterstock) It’s a heady mix of the old and the new this time around with three artists I have long loved, admired and listened to, and two relative newbies on the block who are well and truly making their mark on the musical landscape. It’s a thrill listening to Continue Reading

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