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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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Popcorn and wine and a comfy seat in the dark: My top 25 films of 2025
(via Shutterstock) Due to an unrelenting level of stress, which it seems only books could address in any meaningful fashion – they are the only medium which has ever allowed me to properly switch off and escape and forget the world around me; these days, they are the only one Continue Reading
Fire up the playlists and let the music fly free: My top 25 songs of 2025 + my 8 fave clips of the year
(via Shutterstock) It’s been a weird year for me and music. I still listened to lots and lots and LOTS of it, it was still the soundtrack to all my commutes and occasional exercise outings and even short trips to the shops, and it remained the focal centre of the Continue Reading
Conquering the TBR like a mountaineer: My top 25 books of 2025
(via Shutterstock) I can overstate how much reading means to me. It makes commutes feel fleeting and full of characters and events and excitement it would otherwise meaningfully lack. It fills my stressy moments with such a profound sense of escapist release. And it dials down my anxiety and sense Continue Reading
Stream, stream my televisual dream: Top 25 TV-streaming shows of 2025
(via Shutterstock) It may amuse you to learn, and it certainly amuses many of my friends, that I maintain a very long list of TV shows possibilities, which I either tick off if I manage to see them, or cross of as reviews come in and they are deemed not Continue Reading
Merry Christmas in books and movies and on streaming platforms and in song … may all your pop culture festive dreams come true
(courtesy Pinterest (c) Disney) In honour of Winnie the Pooh’s first appearance in a story by A. A. Milne and the 75th anniversary of Peanuts first cartoon, this year’s Christmas greeting centres on these two groups of characters. I have loved both of them ever since I was a child Continue Reading
Festive kids book review: Bah! Humbug! by Michael Rosen
(courtesy Scholastic Children’s Books) It’s a big thing to say, given how thick on the ground A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, are on the ground, but Bah! Humbug! by Michael Rosen is quite simply one of the best retellings of the Christmas classic I have ever come a cross. Continue Reading
Festive book review: The Christmas Market by Linda McEvoy
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) One of the kinds of festive romcoms I love the most are where someone’s life falls apart – no, that’s not the movable; I’m not a sadist, thank you – and they flee back to their hometown in England or Ireland (this happens in U.S. Continue Reading
The short and the festive short of it: A little blue lightbulb learns the true meaning of Christmas
(courtesy Pipeline Studios, Vimeo) SNAPSHOTLittle Blue, the Christmas bulb, will just do about anything to find his shine this holiday season. Find out what happens when Blue’s determination still needs a little helping hand. From all of us at Pipeline Studios, may your holidays be merry and bright. (courtesy Pipeline Continue Reading
Festive book review: Ghosted at Christmas by Holly Whitmore
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) On the top ten list of things that would wreck your Christmas, absolutely and completely and without a hint of celebratory salvation, surely having your ex turn up would be very high on the list? That’s certainly the way Mia Robinson feels when, after braving a Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I added another 10 new pop culture ornaments to my tree incl. Scooby-Doo, Peanuts’ Spike, Miffy + more
(via Shutterstock) Forget decking the halls … at least for right now! With Christmas almost upon us, adding more pop culture ornaments to my tree is the order of the day, and yes, while I buy far too many new ones every year – is there such a thing? I Continue Reading

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