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“Modern Family” promos itself in classic style

Posted on January 13, 2013January 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  The people behind the promotion of one of the best sitcoms on TV at the moment have always had a flair for representing the cast in all manner of colourful, creative shots. It is one of those rare shows that has a consistent look and feel throughout all of Continue Reading

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Some lighthearted “The Big Bang Theory” fun for the weekend

Posted on January 13, 2013January 10, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I discovered this gem on the web today, traced it back to its original home – made sense it was the official site the-big-bang-theory.com – and had to share it since (a) I love this show and (b) the “Soft Kitty” song rocks and this homage to it is wonderful Continue Reading

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R’ha: the future of sci-fi greatness

Posted on January 11, 2013January 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There’s a huge amount of buzz on the interweb today about a little six minute sci-fi film from an aspiring German film director, and not without good cause. It is, quite simply, amazing. Made over seven months and drawing from established sci-fi properties like Terminator and Battlestar Galactica without Continue Reading

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Teaser poster for “The Walking Dead” mid-season 3 return released

Posted on January 10, 2013January 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  As I suspected the Governor, who lost an eye and his zombie-fied daughter in a violent tussle with Michonne in his very own secret fishtanks-full-of-zombie-heads chamber o’ horrors – the perfect place to rest and relax after tending to your Stepford Wives-esque refuge from the apocalypse don’t you think? Continue Reading

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The dark shadows of “Utopia”

Posted on January 10, 2013January 16, 2013 by aussiemoose

  There was a time, a kindler, gentle less connected time when reading comic books was something that kids did on rainy days, escaping into magical worlds where superheroes saved the world (when, of course they weren’t being existentially sick to the stomach about it; I’m talking to you Batman). Continue Reading

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Wine up! “Cougar Town” returns

Posted on January 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Ok here’s the insane thing (just the one dear?). I am in Australia, thousands of miles from the USA, with no hope of getting there in time to see it, but I am beyond excited that my beloved Cougar Town is back on air 10/9c Tuesday night US time Continue Reading

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“The Big Bang Theory” boldly goes “Into Darkness”

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

  Well not quite. In fact they go to Bakersfield in this week’s episode (entitled appropriately enough “The Bakersfield Expedition”) for a comic book convention, all dressed up in their finest Star Trek: The Next Generation regalia, and have to get some help from the townsfolk in a diner when Continue Reading

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The possibly bright and shiny-ish future of “Community”

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

  I am at heart an optimistic kind of guy. While I keep a watchful eye on the unpredictable vicissitudes of reality which have a habit of upending even the most Pollyanna-esque of apple carts, and acknowledge that all the Tony Robbins’ positivity in the world won’t protect me from Continue Reading

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Movie review: “Life of Pi”

Posted on January 5, 2013January 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Life of Pi is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Visually, and narratively, even musically, it is a wonder and a delight for the senses, a triumph for director Ang Lee who took a novel largely regarded as “unfilmable” – I am not sure by Continue Reading

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“This is Jinsy” : all the quirk you could ask for

Posted on January 4, 2013January 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I am not sure which slow boat this series fell off on its way to the Antipodes but This is Jinsy, a comically absurd British sitcom whose pilot aired on 1 March 2010, has finally reached Australia via ABC 2 [an observant reader has noted it screened on UKTV Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMDb) Identity cuts to the core of who we are as people. But for something so intrinsic to our sense of self and expression, identity is often twisted into all sorts of unrecognisable shapes by societal pressure, familial expectations, bullying and bigotry and even our personal journeys to figuring Continue Reading
  • Book review: Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Reading, done right, is often a seismic trip to all kinds of extreme emotions. Often in the same book too, which is what Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive achieves with an effortless ease, reducing us to side-clutching bundles of laughter one minute before grabbing our heart, giving Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #134: Pattie Gonia & Imogen Heap, Qveen Herby & THOT Squad, Jacob Collier, Absolutely + Metric
    (via Shutterstock) I love music … but I don’t just love any music. I want music with presence, the kind of music that strides forth with energised music, lyrics that don’t play cute and timid and produced by artists who want to say things in unforgettable ways. These five artists Continue Reading
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    (courtesy First Showing (c) AppleTV+) If you’re of a certain age, you will be well acquainted with how good Peanuts specials are for your heart, your mental health and your general sense of glowing wellbeing. Three of the most well-known of the 52 animated specials in existence are A Charlie Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTMeet BJ (Anderson .Paak), a fish-out-of-water musician on the search for stardom carrying a bruised heart from a complicated past relationship. On his journey to revive his music career, BJ lands a gig with a house band in Seoul for a K-Pop competition show. While working on Continue Reading
  • Book review: Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) As ideals go, perfection has to be one of the most laughably impossible. Granted all ideals dance somewhere in the land of blue sky implausibility, cosily inspiring ideas that would be wondrously good if they made it from hope to actuality but which never quite manage Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that you never realise about grief, until you are mired irrevocably in its desperately sad and regretful depths, is how powerless it makes you feel. On one level, of course, you know, especially when someone you love dies, that you can’t bring them Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
    (courtesy Penguin Random House) Can you ever get away from yourself? Not really, but and this is crucial in the context of Steven Rowley’s delightful novella, The Dogs of Venice, you can get away from the place where you experienced trauma and that can make the world of difference, So, Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading
  • Book review: Engaged, Apparently by Amy Andrews
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Is it possible, we muse wonderingly at the start of this review, to reinvent a trope? Or, at the very least, and trust us, it’s a very good “very least” indeed, to put a shiny new sheen on it and present it to an enraptured Continue Reading
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