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Concert review: Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual 30th Anniversary Tour

Posted on September 8, 2013September 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There is something almost magical about seeing a music artist you have loved and admired for thirty years in concert for the first time. Suddenly the transcendentally powerful voice that was only heard through stereo speakers, and the locks of wild hair that only ever made an appearance in Continue Reading

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When good walkers go bad: The Walking Dead’s latest teaser trailer

Posted on September 8, 2013September 10, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Damn walkers. Not only is someone leaving dead animals at the prison fence to attract them but now they’re letting them in to the prison. Either that or the walkers are becoming far more proficient at picking locks. I am betting on the Governor and his two henchmen, who Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: Ass Backwards (trailer + poster)

Posted on September 8, 2013September 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a Continue Reading

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Oh no they didn’t! Hilarious Parks and Recreation bloopers

Posted on September 7, 2013September 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Parks and Recreation is without a doubt one of the funniest sitcoms of the current age, blessed with sharp, satirical writing, a great sense of time and place that it plays to perfectly, and a cast replete with more talented comedians that you can possibly count. (OK yes you Continue Reading

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5 things I love about the upcoming Fall TV season

Posted on September 6, 2013September 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There’s new TV a-coming! While I often complain about finding the time to watch the great bounty that the current golden age of TV is lavishing upon us, the truth is I love finding and discovering new shows to lose myself in. Will this be the next Fringe? The Continue Reading

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Dial up the DHD! Stargate MAY be returning

Posted on September 6, 2013September 24, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I am a hopeless romantic. I believe that ideals will win out over pragmatism (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). I like to think that the better angels of our nature will always win out. And I expect that long dormant franchises will burst back to life when I Continue Reading

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Movie review: Mortal Instruments – City of Bones

Posted on September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare, is an epic film. Styled to within an inch of its life, its loaded to the brim with kickass leather-clad good guys, and assortment of demons, vampires and werewolves of varying allegiances – no zombies surprisingly Continue Reading

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I got Scarlett Johansson’s new movie Under the Skin

Posted on September 5, 2013September 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  By most accounts, Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, which attracted equal parts cheers and jeers at its world premiere overnight at the Venice Film Festival, is an unorthodox creature. Featuring little in the way of a standard narrative, and apparently even less dialogue, it relies on evocative atmosphere, and starkly Continue Reading

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Please … help … me: The Walking Dead’s creepy new season 4 teaser trailer

Posted on September 4, 2013September 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  OK this is seriously eerie. Walking down an empty hallway, convinced you hear footsteps and voices even though no one is there, CREEPY. I am not surprised that Rock, who you would think would be inured to anything unnerving by now, turns around to listen to a voice that Continue Reading

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Eurovision update: what’s happening in its poptastic world?

Posted on September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It’s been almost four months since the last of the pyrotechnics fizzled to half-hearted sparks, and the spandex was packed away for another year so it seems like the perfect time to find out what’s happening in Eurovision’s bright and shiny glitter-spangled world. After all, it’s a scant nine Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s well recognised time memories are a wholly unreliable witness. We might think we are recalling things exactly as they are, but when the truth of the matter surfaces, it soon becomes clear that we remember is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth but Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) Pop music is catchy yes but you also want it to say something, mean something and make you feel something. There must be dancing and thinking and dives into the depths of the soul, all of which we get with these five songs from incredibly talented and marvellously Continue Reading
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