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Fear your enemy: “Falling Skies” returns!

Posted on June 9, 2013June 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  WHEN SEASON 3 OPENS … When “Falling Skies” season 3 begins, seven months have passed since the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston, and Tom (Noah Wyle) is the new President, but he’s also still out there fighting with the resistance. His decision to have the rebel skitters fight alongside Continue Reading

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Get ready to enrol in “Monsters University”

Posted on June 8, 2013June 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  MOVIE SYNOPSIS Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: “Adoration” (previously “Two Mothers”)

Posted on June 8, 2013June 7, 2013 by aussiemoose

  MOVIE SYNOPSIS A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers [now Adoration] charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz, who fall in love with each other’s sons. Afraid of facing the ire and judgment of their Continue Reading

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It’s time to watch the Muppets again … “That Puppet Game Show” announced

Posted on June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 by aussiemoose

  More Muppets in a brand new fun-filled format? Yes please! News that Disney-owned The Jim Henson Company is working closely with the BBC on a brand new show, That Puppet Game Show, to be shown on BBC1, sent a madcap shiver of excitement through my Muppet-loving veins. Consisting of Continue Reading

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TV review: “The Revolution” season 1 finale, ‘The Dark Tower’

Posted on June 7, 2013June 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS AHEAD* Now this is how you stage a finale. Power plays, shifting alliances, plot twists, explosions (some bigger than others; or at least with the potential to be), fist fights, gun fights, relationships broken, relationships rebuilt … and death. Lots and lots of death. It had everything you Continue Reading

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Where is the love? 5 shows I have inadvertently neglected … and how I plan to remedy that

Posted on June 6, 2013June 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It is often said nowadays that we live in a new, glorious golden age of television. And to a large extent that is true with television increasingly the medium where gifted storytellers choose to tell their stories in preference to movies, many of which tend to be relying on Continue Reading

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Everything “Breaking Bad” must come to an end

Posted on June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Un Bonheur N’Arrive Jamais Seul (Happiness Never Comes Alone)”

Posted on June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

  If the delightful charms of co-writer and director James Huth’s bubbly romantic comedy, Happiness Never Comes Alone, prove anything, it’s the truism of Shakespeare’s oft-quoted maxim from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that the course to true love, [whatever that may be], never does run smooth. Of course being a Continue Reading

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Coming to a TV near you: 5 promising new season sitcoms #2

Posted on June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  It’s that time of the year again! The current TV season is coming to a close and as the shows we know and love wrap it up for another year, some of them never to be seen again, a jostling crop of hopefuls is waiting in the wings ready Continue Reading

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Those were the days my friend: sneak peek at the “Revolution” finale

Posted on June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 by aussiemoose

  EPISODE SYNOPSIS Title: “The Dark Tower” Life-threatening dangers abound on all sides as the Rebels infiltrate the Tower. Miles’ (Billy Burke) leadership abilities and character are sorely tested as well as his feelings for Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Nora (Danielle Alonso). Aaron’s (Zak Orth) genius comes in handy while Continue Reading

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  • Christmas in July book review: The King and the Christmas Tree by A. N. Wilson
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) Since 1942, with a break between 1943-1946 and beginning again in 1947, Oslo has sent a minimum twenty-metre tall, eighty-year-old tree to Trafalgar Square in London as a symbol of the enduring bonds between the two countries, established most profoundly during the dark days of Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July animated movie review redux: The best Christmas tree he can be: The festive adventures of Albert
    This review was first published on 23 December 2019. Christmas television is usually pretty inspirational stuff. It makes sense – if you’re going to set a story at the most, magical time of the year, it’s almost impossible for it not to be uplifting in some fashion. Comes with the Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July book review: A Very Irish Christmas by Debbie Johnson
    When you think of a romcom novel, you think usually of two people which is fair enough because a relationship isn’t much good if there’s only person in it. Fairly logical when you think about; but when you really dive into a romcom, what keeps you there, and keeps you Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Odyssey
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There is an epic grandeur to the works of Homer and even if you are not a learned student of his well-known works, The Odyssey and The Illiad, you will be familiar with many of the elements. This lends Christopher Nolan’s enthrallingly immersive adaptation of The Odyssey, Continue Reading
  • Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good (curated article)
    (via Shutterstock) Author: Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol (article via The Conversation) At busy times, I find I simply cannot read as much as I would like to. Life has a habit of filling every available hour with work, meetings, emails, chores, errands and deadlines. Standing in Continue Reading
  • Timing is everything … thoughts on Two Years Later
    (courtesy IMDb (c) Paramount+) There is a trick, a gloriously clever and grounded trick, that sits at the heart of all the very best romantic comedies or romcoms. On the surface, and this is true of any story which looks flawlessly simple and easy but which is anything but when Continue Reading
  • A triple movie trailers treat: Momo and the Time Thieves, Love Me Tender + & SONS
    ( via Shutterstock) I am a man of many and varied cinematic tastes. If fact, the more the merrier as far as genres go, with the exception of horror which frankly involves far too much hiding under blankets and peering through fingers for my tastes. There is real joy for Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July short story review: A Very Merry Christmas by Holly Martin
    (courtesy official Holly Martin site) Full disclosure upfront – I am not a fan of short stories. It’s not how they are written or the characters or the narrative ideas contained within; in a great many cases, these are all superbly presented and you have to admire how the various Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July redux: The festive stress of finding love on a timetable in Home For Christmas
    This review was originally published on 11 December 2019. Families can be wonderful things. They can be warm, nurturing and safe, a haven from the outside world where people can be more than a little unknowing of your true self and inadvertently cruel as a result. But much as Hallmark Continue Reading
  • Christmas in July book review: The Christmas Wish by Lindsey Kelk
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Ever since 1993’s Groundhog Day made time loops a popular mainstream storytelling device, busting it out of the realm of sci-fi where it had been happily resident for some time, they have become a great way of someone being forced to confront the stagnant state Continue Reading
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