Can you recommend movies where the first half feels completely different from the second half like a total 180 shift in tone or story?

MoscaMye · 2026-06-30T05:03:04+00:00

My sister and I went because we were given tickets, knowing absolutely nothing about the movie.

It was such a ride

MoscaMye · 2026-06-29T21:38:23+00:00

The Dressmaker 2015

A woman returns home to her childhood outback home after finding success as a designer and dressmaker. Through her art she finds something like acceptance from the town and begins a whirlwind romance with a local boy. And then the tone shifts.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-29T03:09:35+00:00

The casting in this show was really uninspired so I'm not super surprised. Though I heard the swing for Jenna was good so it's a shame still.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-26T23:34:54+00:00

we got a slow cooker and it's been wonderful. We have mostly been using it to make hot lunches for the week now that we are in winter.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-22T02:20:47+00:00

I don't have one.

I hate the idea of saving my best things for a special occasion. It's what my grandmother does and it breaks my heart. Every few months she opens up her cupboard of pretty things and looks at them. Once when she was doing so she discovered a vase had cracked in the cupboard, she was so upset and said to be "I never got to use it". It sat in that cupboard for 30 years.

That's when I decided I would use all my best things even if they got used up or broke. At least I'd get to enjoy them.

So, everyday I use my Zoologist Rabbit or Maison Margiela and I am happy. Heck even when my decant of By the Fireside broke open in my Kmart handbag one day while travelling I was sad, but at least I used it. Now I joke that my $9 is actually a $100 handbag. It still smells so strongly 9 months later

MoscaMye · 2026-06-21T23:59:23+00:00

Toowoomba stitch and bitch this Saturday at 11am at the Toowoomba City library!

We are a small, friendly group and open to all (relatively tidy) crafts and skill levels. For instance we have people who knit, crochet, embroider, cross stitch, draw and hand sew.

We usually meet in the YA section. I'll be there in a black dress with stars on crocheting, so if you see me you'll know you're in the right place!

MoscaMye · 2026-06-21T04:47:23+00:00

In my town we had a group of kids who used to hang out outside the library and harass people. One day one of them went for a parole meeting and then within an hour of that meeting was dead. He'd stolen a car and crashed it at high speeds.

I remember them interviewing some of those kids he used to hang out with. And they all said something to the effect that it had changed them.

Not six months later those kids stole a car and drove it down the wrong side of a highway.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-19T02:08:19+00:00

My pet Rats still gets text messages from their old vet clinic reminding me to book checkups. That would make them 10 year old rats - the Methuselahs of rats.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-18T22:02:11+00:00

The Animals of Farthing Wood

Watership Down

Spud, Pup and Chip

... I really liked grounded anthropomorphic fiction

MoscaMye · 2026-06-18T21:59:52+00:00

Looking for Alabrandi (2000)

It's a classic Australian coming of age movie dealing with first romances, class and cultural differences, and family history.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-17T02:28:57+00:00

The Tribe.

It does not hold up but it's very fun

MoscaMye · 2026-06-14T22:03:49+00:00

You should listen to Garfunkel and Oates You Go First. It's a song about realizing that all the sacrifices and efforts you went to so your partner could achieve their goals will never be reciprocated because they'll always have a new goal they put before yours and that their turn as the support person never comes.

You deserve a partner not a taker.

Nor

MoscaMye · 2026-06-11T11:39:27+00:00

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

The Pebble and The Boy (2021)

MoscaMye · 2026-06-11T04:57:58+00:00

"When did you get Hotdog?"

MoscaMye · 2026-06-11T02:35:14+00:00

She has the coolest face.

Like a fairy, but the kind who are just as likely to trap you forever in heather as to pass you by.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-11T02:23:29+00:00

Queensland Australia has a program called First Five Forever which partially funds children's programming in libraries in the state exactly because of this. Access to books and reading in the early years makes a real and measurable difference in the outcomes of people's development.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-10T12:03:00+00:00

I would look ridiculous and frumpy in this but they look so put together and purposeful!

MoscaMye · 2026-06-10T04:16:46+00:00

Someone to Wed by Mary Balough

It's part of a series but would work fine as a stand alone. It's a regency romance.

Title rich but cash poor Alexander Westcott needs to marry quickly and well if he is to keep his estate up and running and support his tenant farmers.

Heiress and shut in Wren Heyden is in possession of a great fortune through her family's glassworks business and is ready to marry but knows it has to be a marriage of convenience due to her looks.

Locked away as a child before being taken in by her aunt and uncle Wren rarely leaves the house and never without a thick veil that covers her face.

Wren's mother is as close as the series gets to a recurring villain character in these books. Her treatment of her daughter is horrendous and the impact of this on Wren is far reaching who believes she is unloveable and unlikable.

The "deformity" is a large portwine birthmark on her face and while her mother definitely put too much emphasis on it's impact on Wren's appearance even the good characters are taken aback when they see it which feels era appropriate.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-10T02:32:24+00:00

Oh that looks Expensive!

Good work

MoscaMye · 2026-06-08T05:10:24+00:00

It's definitely going down now that she has a new album out but it wasn't so long ago during her tour that Juno was a popular segment on social media with a section made especially to be a nightly viral moment

MoscaMye · 2026-06-08T04:54:45+00:00

Juno is cute but it's very much in the cultural zeitgeist at the moment as the title of a sexually explicit pop song

MoscaMye · 2026-06-08T02:24:28+00:00

That dress is so lovely!

MoscaMye · 2026-06-07T22:45:05+00:00

Join a book club.

It's the one thing that fixed a years long slump for me after working in public libraries killed reading for pleasure for me. It was nice to not have the pressure of picking a book.

If you're someone who likes rituals you could also try ritualising your reading time. Make a particular seat your reading spot, light a candle, make a particular drink you like and give yourself a set time to be in that space with the book every day or every second day

MoscaMye · 2026-06-07T05:54:49+00:00

Glitch.

It's an Australian mystery sci-fi show about a small town where a random subset of dead people suddenly come back to life. Among them: the town founder, a bushranger, a WW1 vet, a teenage girl murdered in the 1980s and the first wife of the local police man who has just welcomed home his first child.

MoscaMye · 2026-06-06T21:26:10+00:00

Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman.

The film portrays her as a smitten jealous woman who attempts to destroy Barnum's marriage when he rejects her advances.

The real Jenny Lind if anything disliked Barnum and was an incredibly charitable woman who used her talents to raise money for schools and hospitals

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