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Now this is music 23: Låpsley, The Golden Pony, Neneh Cherry + Four Tet, Rae Morris, Solander

Posted on February 21, 2014February 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  It’s Friday! (Pretty sure you’ve worked that too.) And while it’s always good to let your hair down and dance up a storm, it can also be good to sit back, chill and take in lovely meandering tunes that feed the soul and ease away the stress. So this Continue Reading

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The end is nigh: Warehouse 13 unveils first trailer for fifth and final season

Posted on February 21, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Warehouse 13 is one of those rare shows that I fell in love almost from the word go. There was something about it’s distinctly postmodern mix of the supernatural, the mythological and the downright fantastical, and a cast of passionate but thoroughly whimsical characters that grabbed me minutes into Continue Reading

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Holy bloopers LEGO Batman! Hilarious LEGO movie outtakes

Posted on February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading

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Movie review: Inside Llewyn Davis

Posted on February 19, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  “Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “Inmates” (S4, E10)

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading

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Going above and beyond: New Transcendence trailer and poster

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading

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Even more Under The Skin (full trailer + poster)

Posted on February 16, 2014February 16, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, and scored by Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes fame, Under The Skin follows Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien. She’s been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers. As the official synopsis puts it: “Part road movie, Continue Reading

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Flintstones, meet the Scientifically Accurate Flintstones!

Posted on February 16, 2014February 14, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, who premiered on US TV on September 30, 1966, and loved, even at a young age, its juxtaposition of modern day concerns with stone age people. It was a clever, insightful sitcom in a cartoon, and while you knew that cavemen didn’t actually Continue Reading

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Join the monsters at Pixar’s Party Central!

Posted on February 15, 2014February 14, 2014 by aussiemoose

  If the impending wonderment and hilarity of Muppets Most Wanted wasn’t enough, we have the inordinate pleasure, and yes even more hilarity, of a new Pixar short in the form of Party Central, featuring the gang from Monsters University. Originally scheduled to screen before The Good Dinosaur before its Continue Reading

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Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones

Posted on February 15, 2014February 10, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading

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  • Movie review: Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Movie trilogies are often, though not always, governed by the wholly unforgiving law of diminishing returns. What was vital and fresh in the first film becomes diluted though often still appealing in the second film all of which means that by the third instalment, there is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Maskeys by Stuart Everly-Wilson
    (courtesy Transit Lounge Publishing) Despite this book’s title, The Maskeys, and no, this does not require a spoiler alert, are not the centrepiece of the novel which bears their rather blighted name. Penned by Stuart Everly-Wilson, who brought us the superlatively good Low Expectations, The Maskeys revolves instead around Rodney, Continue Reading
  • Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Tron: Legacy
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Long delayed movie sequels are pretty thick on the ground with Hollywood having taken up the rallying cry of “Leverage the IP!” with bottom-line scanning gusto. Like anything driven partly by a desire to expand a franchise rather than coming up with a startling new idea, some Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Tor Publishing Group) The crime genre, early teenage voracious consumption of Agatha Christie’s entire output aside, has never really compelled this reviewer to sit down and read like, say science-fiction or slice-of-life quirky dramas. While most sections of my favourite bookshops see regular footfall from me, the crime section Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Larrikin Press) It’s a recurring theme in all kinds of creative expression – just who are the monsters really and might they be lurking where you least suspect? The answer, to the second question at least, is an emphatic “YES!!”, owing to the fact that humanity, despite millennia of Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Tron
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Jumping back in time, if not literally then at least cinematically, is always an interesting exercise. Nostalgia exerts a powerful pull on all of us, and watching how it fares when it comes to seeing the object of its hagiographying live and in person again is a Continue Reading
  • Book review: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life can often like a series of existentially testing events, punctuated by rare moments of levity and joy and wrapped in a lifetime of pain, hurt, loss and hard-won gains. That might seem bleak but for most it’s an accurate take on this thing called life, and Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #129: Georgia, BENEE, Sigrid, Ella Collier + Moyka + ABBA performimg “Mamma Mia” in 1975
    (via Shutterstock) There are some months that just reward you with brilliant songs. Songs that, for a whole host of reasons, you play over and over again and which, for this beleaguered commuter reviewer at least, making walking to the train station and back not feel quite so arduous and Continue Reading
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