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It’s the end of “Fringe” as we know it … and I don’t feel fine

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

  Yet another sad day looms in the world of adventurous, interesting TV. The final episode of Fringe airs this Friday US time (it also functions as the series’ 100th episode), and behold it makes this fanboy mighty sad. If one thing has become abundantly clear as you read my Continue Reading

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Swede Jonas Oakland dazzles with new single “When the Music Dies”

Posted on January 15, 2013January 15, 2013 by aussiemoose

  We all know the feeling. You’re enjoying a luminously transcendant night out with someone special, enclosed in your own perfect bubble of a world and quite naturally enough, you don’t want it to come to an end. It’s an odd mixture of exhilaration and melancholy as you’re carried away Continue Reading

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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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    (courtesy Russell Hobbs British Film Festival) There is a rich authenticity to every one of British director Mike Leigh’s films, a sense that you are seeing real people living all-too-real lives in circumstances that don’t pretend life is anything other than a hard slog. But for all the gritty honesty Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMDb (c) Laika Studios) Animation has long had the unique ability to transport us to other worlds. But stop motion takes this further, with a level of skill and intentionality that provides a perfect counter to the droning hum of AI slop infecting our feeds. Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion Continue Reading
  • Andrew’s birthday month book review: Match Fit by Leesa Ronald
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a romcom worth its swoon-worthy salt is in need of a protagonist and their would be significant romantic interest who are hugely and endlessly likable (and yes, I have paraphrased the opening sentence to Pride & Prejudice by Jane Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Finding home is something we all dream of. And not in the sense that we stumble across the property of our dreams at weekend auctions or we have a Dorothy moment, desperately trying to get home to whatever our Kansas is by clicking our heels; no, that Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you’re someone who has grown up on the social margins, you will be ruefully well acquainted with how isolated and alone you can feel. While it feels like the entirety of the far more socially acceptable world, and yes, you will also wonder where those Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) When you look at someone’s present-day life, it’s laughably easy to think that it arrived as some fully-formed agglomeration of past thoughts and deeds, feelings and mistakes and triumphs, all of them neatly woven together by the uncomplicated passage of time. But all of us know, at Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Hachette Australia) We are so used to everything we consume these days delivering up instant gratification vibes that when it doesn’t, we are prone to simply to see it aside and find something else that will deliver the narrative sugar hit we have been conditioned to crave. Slow-burn anything Continue Reading
  • Not so scary after all … Grover discovers all kinds of courage in Sesame Street: The Monster at the end of your Story with Grover and Elmo
    (courtesy Sesame Workshop) Ever since I was a kid, which let’s face it, was a good long while ago now, I have loved the character of Grover from Sesame Street – yes, yes I know you’re not supposed to have favourites (sorry Bert and Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch, and Continue Reading
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