The Big Funny Sitcom Round Up!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by aussiemoose

“My childhood has lead to me to this moment…” Stuart Fails to Save the Universe drops a teaser trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTComic book store owner Stuart Bloom (starring Kevin Sussman) is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: The Name Game by Beth O’Leary

(courtesy Hachette Australia) It’s a truism of any form of storytelling that genres generally come with cast-iron rules. If you want to write in those genres, and have people, in this case, read your books, you have to include certain tropes and cliches to keep the punters happy; however, simply Continue Reading

Movie review: Swapped

(courtesy IMP Awards) If you are looking for a potent shot of animated joy into your moviegoing veins, then look no further than the vibrantly colourful and emotionally rich world of Swapped. Overflowing with gobsmackingly wonderful imaginative world-building, the best this reviewer has seen the criminally underrated wonder of Disney’s Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: Finding home is a real adventure in Quack!

(courtesy ESMA) SNAPSHOTTheCGBros presents Quack! by ESMA – a huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A duckling comes out, and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother. (Un gros œuf s’échoue près du ruisseau où vivent Continue Reading

New releases May book review: Good Boy by Michelle Wright

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) There are some books you read, and then are others, and good lord if Good Boy by Michelle Wright isn’t one of them, that you experience, you live, you breathe and you don’t soon forget. A novel about the most unique of second chances, Continue Reading

Movie review: Remarkably Bright Creatures

(courtesy IMP Awards) If you had someone die who was absolutely central to your world, and whose absence makes it feel considerably smaller and barren, then you will understand the wholly disorienting sense of everything feeling like it just STOPS. The world might keep moving around you with its customary Continue Reading

It’s time for a closer look at the unsettling mystery of The Boroughs

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading

New releases May book review: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If you have even a modicum of self awareness and personal integrity, the idea of pretending to be something you’re not often doesn’t sit well with you. The only way you can live with a fake persona and your real self sitting cheek-by-jowl is to Continue Reading

There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood

(courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading

Movie review: The Sheep Detectives

(courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading

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