SNAPSHOT In the spirit of true crime documentaries, this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy features bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D’Agosto), who heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric “rollercizing” poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of the bizarre murder Continue Reading
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Everyone wants to celebrate Girlfriend’s Day. Well, except Bob Odenkirk
SNAPSHOT In a city where greeting card writers are celebrated like movie stars, romance writer Ray used to be the king. In trying to recapture the feelings that once made him the greatest, he gets entangled in a web of murder and deceit as writers vie to create the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Say hello to a Doctor Who-fied time-travelling Snoopy!
In his day, and it’s been a thoroughly successful 67 years and counting so far, Snoopy has been many things – an aspiring author, a hip rock ‘n’ roll-loving college student named Joe Cool and a dashing World War 1 flying ace, always on the hunt for the Red Continue Reading
Delightful pixelated cartoon madness: Rick and Morty get an 8-bit intro
Rick and Morty, the titular stars of the epic cartoon series created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, are no strangers to zipping to the past, present or future, here on Earth, far out in space or in weird alternate dimensions populated by hilariously crazy, odd creatures, many of Continue Reading
The world is ending AGAIN: The 100 season 4 trailer
The radiation is coming my friends and trust us it won’t be pretty! Now granted you might have thought that the threat from other people might be a bigger issue for the likes of Skaikru and the Grounders, neither of whom seem too inclined to engage in any kind Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Comic strips meets TV in creative mashups
Have you wondered what Linus would look like as a zombie? Or Pigpen as Daryl (he’s the one Peanuts character who’d be untroubled by the ablution-challenged environs of the zombie apocalypse). Or perhaps you think Game of Thrones could do with a dose of Calvin and Hobbes whimsicality? (Let’s Continue Reading
Follow the yellow brick road to an all-new Emerald City
SNAPSHOT In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – a mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Starring Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil, Jurassic World) Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life gets the credit sequence it deserves
I thoroughly enjoyed Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life which premiered last year on my birthday, 25 November, and was the best present I could have asked for! While it was a little disconcerting to watch everyone that much older and not necessarily wiser, in much the way Continue Reading
Brick bazinga! The Big Bang Theory gets a LEGO intro theme
As it marches ever onward through its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory, sitcom ratings juggernaut, geek flagbearer and hilarious diversion from the travesties of real life, has finally been the recipient of something it should have had a long, long time ago. Which is what you ask as Continue Reading
Eulogies for the living come humorously alive in My 90-Year-Old Roommate
It’s one of the great truisms of life that, Pulitzer Prize winners and J. K. Rowling aside, writers don’t take on their craft as a profession to make money. In fact, pretty much any writer worth their blank Word page existential angst will tell you that they have to Continue Reading