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Fox on NBC and an NBC alum on FOX

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Never have two news releases prompted so much fun with a headline. Well for this blog at least. On Monday, it was announced that one of the most loved stars in the world, Michael J Fox who has found fame on both the small and big screens is returning Continue Reading

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Sonic Bliss #13: My favourite songs of the week

Posted on August 21, 2012September 9, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Time for another dive into the pools of musical goodness and see who has been creating beautiful music in the last little while. So sit back, strap on the headphones – memo to self: must get the ginormous ones so large that if they fell from my ears whole Continue Reading

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“Husbands” season 2 premieres

Posted on August 19, 2012August 20, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Husbands is that rare beast of a sitcom. It is a side-splittingly funny satire, replete with more pop culture references that an attendee at Comic-Con, which also manages to be a political call to action for equality, all without being preachy or overly earnest. How does it manage this Continue Reading

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Sneak peek: “Falling Skies”, final episode season 2

Posted on August 17, 2012 by aussiemoose

  We have almost reached the final episode of season 2 and all I can say is that ten episodes go by so fast! But my haven’t the team behind Falling Skies used them well this season. The 2nd Mass. have successfully traversed the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Continue Reading

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Saying goodbye to: “Eureka”

Posted on August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Eureka‘s final episode, which I watched with great reluctance purely because I simply didn’t want to say goodbye to such a clever, warm hearted show – you know the idea; if you haven’t watched the episode then has the show really ended? Alas it has – ended on a Continue Reading

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Sitcoms: Not dead folks … just different

Posted on August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 by aussiemoose

  With a record 29 sitcoms being pitched for this year’s US fall TV pilot season, such as Go On and The Mindy Project, you could be excused for wondering why anyone would suggest that the sitcom is in terminal decline? But it wasn’t that long ago that commentators were Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Bourne Legacy

Posted on August 14, 2012February 11, 2016 by aussiemoose

  *SOME SPOILERS BELOW* In this modern cynical age, it is a given that the world is rotten to the core, the structures of power and authority that govern it are hollowed out and corrupt, and those that work within it morally compromised beyond all redemption. It is a world Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Pillow Talk”

Posted on August 13, 2012August 15, 2012 by aussiemoose

  I am not usually a subscriber to the adage that “they don’t make ’em like they used to” since I firmly believe that, while old movies/film/books are valuable parts of the pop culture canon, they are not the sum total of human creative expression, and are certainly not the Continue Reading

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Amazing behind-the-scenes photos from TV shows

Posted on August 11, 2012August 10, 2012 by aussiemoose

The wonderful folk at flavorwire, who have a genius for gathering together a whole host of things you never knew you wanted to see (and are so excited when you do), have pulled together some photos behind the scenes of some of our favourite TV shows past and present. While Continue Reading

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Grimm: First look at season 2

Posted on August 10, 2012August 10, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Season 2 of Grimm is just days away from starting in the USA, post-Olympics, on Monday 13 August and to whet our appetites, NBC have released a first look video which gives some insight into what’s inshore for our favourite fantasy procedural team. The biggest news is the introduction Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP awards) INVASION season 2 Episode 1: “The Ones We Leave Behind” When last we visited the blighted citizens of Invasion Earth, the alien mothership had crashed into a mountain range, heroes, U.S. soldier Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and British schoolboy-turned-alien-psychic Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) were MIA, presumed dead, 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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    (courtesy IMP Awards) How do you, to wildly and wilfully paraphrase a song from The Sound of Music, solve a problem like keeping a franchise fresh and vital years after the height of its emergent and zeitgeist dominating popularity? It’s a great and enduring conundrum, one given even more present Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Text Publishing) We all crave a place to belong. There’s an innate drive to find our tribe, our people which defines all of us, with the presence of whatever we know as family enriching us and its absence impoverishing and isolating in ways innumerable. In short, we need companions Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #127: Dyan Tai & Lupa J, Lydia Night, Alison Wonderland, MØ + Nemo + Eurovision 2026 updates
    (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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  • Book review: The Life of Chuck by Stephen King
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Like many other people, I am well acquainted with Walt Hitman’s immortal line “I contain multitudes”, taken from his poem “Song of Myself, 51”. It is one of those popularly understood but not always fully ruminated on lines that resonate with people, even if many of us Continue Reading
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