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To vocal infinity and beyond! Brock Baker serves up 24 Pixar voices in 5 fun-filled minutes

Posted on July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There is an art to inspired mimicry. It’s not enough to sound like the character you’re impersonating, you must embody their mannerisms and personality too. Effectively, you have to become that character. It’s clearly not a lesson Brock Baker needs to learn. A talented impressionist, who bring a host Continue Reading

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Everyone knows She’s Funny That Way (Poster + trailer)

Posted on July 28, 2015July 21, 2015 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT From renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, “She’s Funny That Way” is a screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production. When established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots) in a new play to star Continue Reading

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What Pet Should I Get? Dr Seuss has a new book worth a look!

Posted on July 26, 2015July 24, 2015 by aussiemoose

  This has surely got to rank as one of the best news stories of the year. 24 years after his death in 1991, Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, has not one but three new books ready to be published, discovered, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in Continue Reading

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Attaboy, there’s a Good Dinosaur … trailer

Posted on July 26, 2015July 24, 2015 by aussiemoose

  There is no such thing as too many Pixar movies in one year. Especially after a year (2014) where there were no movies from the rightly acclaimed animation powerhouse at all. Hot, relative again to last year’s Pixar drought on the heels of the beyond superlative Inside Out, comes Continue Reading

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Movie review: Last Cab to Darwin

Posted on July 25, 2015July 23, 2015 by aussiemoose

  A sense of belonging is an intrinsic part of the human experience. Not everyone wants to admit it of course with many people, for a variety of reasons, doing their best to keep the rest of humanity at bay by fair means and foul. One such person, Rex (Michael Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: Muppets get their superhero apocalyptic vibe on thanks to JoopaDoops

Posted on July 25, 2015July 12, 2015 by aussiemoose

  As a life long Muppets fan, I am most definitely of the opinion that there is very little on this planet that can’t be improved by their presence. Among these many and varied things, are superhero and apocalyptic road movies, two themes that a very talented artist called Justin Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Hatchlings” (S5, E3 review)

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND LAST DITCH OVERLORDS AHEAD*   There’s nothing like a walk in the countryside is there? All that fresh, bracing air, the inspiring views, the sense that you are away from everyone and everything … well, that is, unless, of course you’re Rage Tom Continue Reading

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Little Golden Books go to a galaxy far, far away with their new Star Wars editions

Posted on July 24, 2015July 23, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Behold a most perfect together of pop culture wonderfulness! It has been announced, no doubt from an orbiting battle cruiser somewhere high above Tattoine that Little Golden Books, that bastion of imaginative childrens’ storytelling in very small packaging, will be soon be journeying to a galaxy far, far away, Continue Reading

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Movie review: Hallå hallå

Posted on July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 by aussiemoose

  Disa (Maria Sid) is one very disappointed woman. Disappointed by life, by the way a resolute playing by the rules – husband TICK! Kids TICK! Job TICK! Compliant acquiescing to everything expected of her TICK! – seems to be have yielded her nothing but dashed hopes and dreams. Though Continue Reading

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Blood red sky: Edvard Munch’s “Scream” comes to life in this brilliant short animated film

Posted on July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my Continue Reading

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    (courtesy Amazon) Life’s “Great and Terrible Sadnesses” have a way of wiping absolutely everything before them and even reducing a season full of love and good cheer like Christmas to a dull, depressive footnote in a long line of unremarkably barren calendar moments. That’s certainly been the experience of Grace Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Is grand larceny the path to true love? Not typically, no, but this is Christmas and when the festive season comes calling, it seems that anything and everything is possible. Which is just as well for Jingle Bell Heist, a festive London-set romcom which asks what might Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance (A Tall Tale) by Miranda Hart (illustrations by Lucy Claire Dunbar)
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Ever since I discovered her breakthrough sitcom Miranda, I have loved the whimsy and old-fashioned chatty cheerfulness of comedian/writer/actor Miranda Hart with the sort of enthusiasm that people much younger than me reserve for zeitgeist-heavy K-Pop bands. She embodies all of the fun and silliness of Continue Reading
  • A whole new world: Thoughts on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
    (courtesy AppleTV) Losing yourself in a documentary is one of life’s great, often unsung, pleasures. If they’re done well, and many are, they are gateways to magical places of knowledge and experience, a chance to find yourself somewhere you’ve never been or to get lost in the rapture and wonder Continue Reading
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    (courtesy NetGalley) Life is full to the brim with traumatic moments. Hardly a surprise there; while most of us head into life all wide-eyes, enthusiastic and bushy-tailed, believing no harm can befoul us and all we will have are sunshine and rainbows, we soon discover life, alas, has other ideas. Continue Reading
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like the festive season … Christmas ads 2025 round-up
    (via Shutterstock) I know there is a significant school of thought that rails against the materialism and rampant consumerism of Christmas. And yes, while I can see it, and it’s valid point as far as it goes, it leaves aside the fact that much of that drives this need to Continue Reading
  • Festive animated love? Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you only watch one parody of a festive romcom movie this year, and let’s face it, much as I love many of them, the actual films are almost parodies of themselves, then make sure it’s Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie. The Continue Reading
  • Festive movie review: A Merry Little Ex-Mas
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Christmas is the season where love is all around us, and you’ll be happy to know, it’s not just Love, Actually that thinks so. A Merry Little Ex-Mas is also a big believer in the power of the season to change hearts and minds and even wind Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square by Ali McNamara
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) When you think about it, Christmas as a concept and an idea, as opposed to the reality of the season, is full to the tinsel-draped, eggnog-soaked brim with magical realism. It’s in the original Biblical tale – not a diss; I grew up in the church and Continue Reading
  • Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t air − and why it endures (curated article)
    (courtesy IMDb) In 2024, the beloved special is streaming on Apple TV+. Stephen Lind, University of Southern California It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The 1965 broadcast has become a staple – etched into traditions across generations like decorating the tree or sipping hot Continue Reading
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