When I was a kid, I really didn’t get musicals. Not at all. While they were bright, fun and sing-a-long-ish to a ridiculous degree, full to bursting with love sweet love, prevailing justice and everything working out right – I’m talking the golden age of Hollywood musicals here, not Continue Reading
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First Impressions: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Usually when you’re headhunted for a new job, you’ll get a call from a high-powered recruitment consultant, have a few meetings (hopefully at wine bar somewhere) and seal the deal with handshakes and a band spanking new contract. If you’re one of the heroes or villains recruited by a Continue Reading
“And it’s goodbye from him”: Vale Ronnie Corbett, British comic great
One of the enduring rituals of my 1970s childhood was sitting down with my family to watch The Two Ronnies, a program of satirical musical performances and sketches. With my mother and father standing ready to explain any references that flew over my head – I did my best Continue Reading
Always wanted to eat with Lorelai and Rory Gilmore? Now you can
There are TV series you love, and then there are TV series you LOVE. The Gilmore Girls, which is being revived thank the good, quirky people of Stars Hollow, for four more movie-length episodes on Netflix, is one of those shows with that magic combination of perfectly sublime setting, brilliantly-good, Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “Twice as Far / East” (S6, E14 + E15 review)
* SPOILERS … AND CAROL HYPERVENTILATING … AND PEOPLE GETTING CAPTURED … YES, AGAIN * Peace, or its relative facsimile given that the next Big Bad off the production line, Negan is circling off in the near-distance with his Saviours hovering devotedly close by, does not seem to agree Continue Reading
Doctor Who and Donna are back! 3 new audio episodes arrive in May
I am not usually one for rampant nostalgia, happy to return to much-loved TV shows, music, books or movies for the occasional visit but rather averse to living there permanently. After all, looking at everything through the rose-tinted glasses of the past makes everything look a little odd after Continue Reading
Thin on the ground: How many people are left alive in The Walking Dead universe?
Hands up everyone who thinks that a raging zombie virus that has erased almost all signs of Homo Sapien life from the face of the planet may not be so good for robust population numbers of plant Earth by said hominid? OK everyone? Good, pretty much all on the same Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Your most-loved pop culture characters unmasked!
If you’re like me, you’ve likely spent a great deal of time with your favourite pop culture characters, their presence enriching everything from lazy childhood Saturday mornings spent spread out on the couch watching cartoons to nostalgic adult nights spent wondering where your youth went … wait, is that Continue Reading
SMOOTH … Sesame Street seamlessly delivers a stunning rendition of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Tha Crossroads”
Sesame Street has always been way up to the minute and astutely hip to the groove. And now thanks to Adam Schleichkorn, who previously gave us the mash-up gem of The Muppets performing the Beastie Boys’ “So What’cha Want”, they just got even more street cred thanks to his Continue Reading
Can I be honest? This is what The Walking Dead (S4-6) is really all about says Screen Junkies
The Honest Trailers from Screen Junkies are simply brilliant. Even if you are utterly devoted to a show like The Walking Dead, which yours truly and so many others are, it’s still fun to take a step back and laugh at some of the wild inconsistencies in the show. Continue Reading