Eurovision Song Contest 2024 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 7 – The Big 6 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK (Grand final)

Posted on May 5, 2024May 3, 2024 by aussiemoose

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 6 – Malta, Netherlands, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland (Semi final 2, part 3) + Eurovision stage revealed!

Posted on April 27, 2024May 3, 2024 by aussiemoose

Songs, songs and more songs #93: Mia Nicolai, Sigrid, Georgia, Molly Burch and Genesis Owusu + Eurovision 2024 update!

Posted on September 22, 2023September 18, 2023 by aussiemoose

(via Shutterstock) Love is a messy powerful thing – sometimes it works in our favour, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, and our romantic dreams crumble into dust, it can feel like the world has fallen apart, it can feel like indescribably words, emotions so big and damaging they somehow Continue Reading

Book review: Nick and Charlie (A Heartstoper novella) by Alice Oseman

(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Life all too often feels like a series of endless goodbyes. Or possible goodbyes anyway; just when things seem to have settled into a pleasing and happy pattern, and we feel like this life things is forming itself into some existentially rich and satisfying shapes, along Continue Reading

What’s the next stage? Thoughts on The Big Door Prize (S2, E1-4)

(courtesy IMP Awards) It will surprise precisely no one to say that we live in an age where it feels like everything, and we mean everything, is on frantic frenetic, screamingly loud and epic fast-forward draped in garish neon and with a thumping electrobeat pounding out of the speakers. That’s Continue Reading

Something borrowed, something Bluey: why we love a TV wedding (curated article)

(courtesy IMDb (c) Ludo Studio) Article via Liz Giuffre , Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney via The Conversation There is nothing like a wedding episode. Bluey’s first 28-minute special, “The Sign”, was the ultimate wedding television. Full of family, and family-friendly, the wedding between Bluey’s godmother Frisky Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 7 – The Big 6 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK (Grand final)

#StarWarsDay book review: Brotherhood by Mike Chen #MayThe4thBeWithYou

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Star Wars is defined in many ways by the relationships which fill it with a space operatic sense of connectiveness that powers the narrative and lends it a great deal more resonance that you might expect what it essentially a galactic Western. Han and Leia and Continue Reading

#StarWarsDay movie review: Star Wars – A New Hope #Maythe4thBeWithYou

(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s always a fascinating exercise diving back into a film as an adult that, in your youth, defined how you see movies. You either love it all over again, not simply wrapped in a cosy cocoon of nostalgia but in awe of how good the story is Continue Reading

Not the people you thought you knew: Thoughts on Secrets of the Neanderthals

(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Growing up, I remember being fascinated by the idea that there were other human species alive on the Earth, not just well before Homo Sapiens but crossing over with us. At the present time, there are a number of species that have been discovered to have Continue Reading

#Eurovision cultural festival 2024 music review: Five Swedish artists to listen to now

(via Shutterstock) By any measure you can care to mention, Sweden is a music powerhouse. Long gone days are the days when ABBA were pilloried by the British press for being from a musically nothing country (that was never true of course since Sweden has a rich musical tradition but Continue Reading

Book review: Funny Story by Emily Henry

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) You know what’s so appealing about romantic comedies? No matter how over the top their premise might be or fantastically narrative convenient the narrative powering them might be, they provide a delightfully overpowering sense of comfort that life can be good and wonderful, and if it’s Continue Reading

Movie review: The Fall Guy

(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s time to be brutally honest – most cinematic adaptations of TV shows are not very good. In fact, in many cases, they are beastially awful – we’re looking at you Bewitched and CHiPs; we’d rather we weren’t but alas for a moment we must – and Continue Reading