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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new promo images + a LEGO trailer

Posted on August 28, 2013August 28, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest–without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill Continue Reading

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“Warehouse 13”: Review of season 4 finale “The Truth Hurts”

Posted on August 28, 2013August 28, 2013 by aussiemoose

  “THIS IS MY HO– USE NOW!” With that thundering statement, Paracelsus (Anthony Head), Warehouse 13‘s latest 500 year old mad scientists uber-baddy, takes control of the world’s weirdest major holding place of strange and dangerous artifacts – OK the world’s only holding major place of strange and dangerous artifacts Continue Reading

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Break out the Boom Boom! “Girls” season 3 teaser trailer debuts

Posted on August 27, 2013July 6, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Though it may seem like an eon away – one TV viewing month is equal to at least 6-8 actual months in my estimation – the third season of HBO’s Girls, which is set to bow in January 2014 will be here before we know it. In anticipation of Continue Reading

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Book review: “Shift” by Hugh Howey

Posted on August 27, 2013December 16, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Mankind is a contrarily unique species. Armed with ferocious intelligence, tenacity, ambition, and the ability to remold the world, for better or worse, we hold both the seeds of our uplifting and our downfall in our often overly confident hands. Peter may build up, but Paul will tear down, Continue Reading

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Shhh! Be vewy, vewy qwiet … Neil Patrick Harris has made a silent movie

Posted on August 25, 2013August 24, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Is there nothing that Neil Patrick Harris can’t do and do spectacularly well? I say no! My proof? He hosts the Tonys, performs magic like a pro, is a star on How I Met Your Mother, has two of the most adorable children with his partner, David Burtka … Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Now You See Me”

Posted on August 24, 2013August 24, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading

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Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??

Posted on August 23, 2013August 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading

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A terrific togetherness of TV trailers: Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Dracula, Big School

Posted on August 22, 2013August 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

  We’re barely a month away from all sorts of new season TV goodness and with thoughts of evil fairy tale queens, re-imagined 19th century fictional detectives and bright, sunshiney high school singers dancing in my heads, it’s entirely the right time to gather them all together in one big Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Francis Ha”

Posted on August 21, 2013December 12, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Life, complicated though it is, is one of those things that every adult on the planet is supposed to have totally figured out. Because we’re, you know, adults, and that’s what we’re expected to do. The truth is, all appearances aside, many of us don’t and it’s this subversively Continue Reading

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Every zombie child’s favourite bedtime story: “A Brain is for Eating”

Posted on August 21, 2013August 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Ever wondered what tired zombie parents, spent from a long day wandering through empty apocalyptic landscapes scaring and eating the living,  read to their undead offspring come bedtime? (Dead or not, I am betting there’s a good chance that like children everywhere they would be a lively as hell, Continue Reading

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  • He’s gone too far! Trailer releases for a feisty and fun Cat in the Hat movie
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Today is going to be THE. BEST. DAY. EVER!” Meet the Cat in the Hat you don’t know! In the whimsical tradition of Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat comes to the big screen in his animated theatrical feature film debut, an all-new, epic adventure with Continue Reading
  • One last roll of the planetary dice … Project Hail Mary releases its first gripping trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAstronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Grace must Continue Reading
  • Book review: Rise and Shine by Kimberley Allsopp
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) There’s a popularly-held very binary dynamic at work when it comes to love stories. You’re either falling wildly and hopelessly in love with nothing but wine and roses and sunshine through dew drop eyes ahead of you … OR … you have reached the end Continue Reading
  • This just ain’t his story. It’s our story.” Washington Black makes the leap from book to screen
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFollows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When an incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges & Continue Reading
  • Book review: Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond
    (Harper Collins Publishers Australia) What great longing rests in the depths of our seemingly endless hearts and soul? For most of us, it’s really no more than a guess though if pressed we could likely name a few wished and longed-for things that we would like to see manifest like Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Appearances, as we all know and have been instructed about repeatedly, can be deceiving. For one reason or another, people project one thing while living quite another, a white lie in most cases that avoids emotional entanglement, vulnerability or the need to share in something that Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
    (courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Delving deep into someone’s life over a long period of time is something rarely afforded to us unless they are a family member or close friend. We might know people well and converse, laugh and cry with them over all sorts of life events but really Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #124: GRANT KNOCHE, MO, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lil Nas X + Miley Cyrus
    (via Shutterstock) Life is a LOT. And while there’s no escaping that, you can find ways to work through the myriad of emotions that summons, including of course channeling it into some highly cathartic music. These five artists do that brilliantly and well and the resultant songs manage to get Continue Reading
  • Book review: Salvage by Jennifer Mills
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) What would happen if the world “ended” in slow motion? In other words, rather than the big bang and boom of the usual fall of civilisation that we have seen documented in all kinds of apocalyptic storytelling, what if the cataclysmic hell of the end of Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Flow
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to emerge from watching a movie of any kind and feel both soothed and euphoric. Surely the two states are antithetical, with the more active one bludgeoning the other into emotional oblivion with boundlessly energetic vivacity? Or the former chilling you the Continue Reading
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