No one likes to admit it outright but sometimes life can be pretty disappointing. You stack up your dreams and barely-whispered expectations in the hope they will lead somewhere special and when they don’t, you either have a choice to give up entirely or cobble together a rough approximation of Continue Reading
TV
Five (+1) fab TV trailers: Outlander, Flaked, Fear the Walking Dead, Veep, Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley
Let’s hear it for the new neverending Golden Age of Television! While it does make keeping up with everything a challenge of neat Herculean proportions, it’s not a bad #firstworldproblem to have since it has effectively ended the reign of reality TV – yes, it’s still there but no longer Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “No Way Out” (S6, E9 review)
SPOILERS FOLLOW … AND ZOMBIE HORDES SHAMBLING ALONG LIKE LONG PUPPIES The more you watch The Walking Dead, which returned from its season 6 hiatus in spectacularly over the top zombies-to-the-left-zombies-to-the-right-and-right-in-front-of-you-oops-too-late fashion, the more you’re left with the unsettling realisation that Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his family Continue Reading
Judd Apatow and Netflix are in Love
SNAPSHOT LOVE follows Gus and Mickey as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid. Having recently ended their respective dysfunctional relationships, Gus and Mickey meet each other by chance at a convenience store and forge a connection in the Continue Reading
First impressions: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
How far would you go for love? Or at least the idea of love? Hell, a skerrick of a thought of a glimpse of a whispered memory of love from 10 years previously? Probably not all that far on the last count but then you’re not Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Continue Reading
Is that you Scooby? Iconic Hanna-Barbera characters get a facelift courtesy of DC Comics
My but don’t the owners of iconic pop culture properties like to re-invent them! You see it all the time in the movies where re-imaginings and reboots crop like mushrooms on the forest floor after heavy rain. It’s less common in animation where characters may get tweaked and finessed Continue Reading
I’m moving to Ryanville: New commercial features (almost) nothing but Ryan Reynolds
Hey did I tell you I’m moving? Yep, all of a sudden. Happy where I was, loving my housemate’s company, my partner’s proximity, my fun, funky, cafe-rich neighbourhood and then … WHOOSH! Packed and moved JUST. LIKE. THAT. I’m not entirely sure why really … oh hell of course Continue Reading
First impressions: The Shannara Chronicles
Generally speaking when we’re shown a dystopian view of future Earth, there’s something innately recognisable about the people and the places they inhabit. Sure they may be a whole world away from anything we know but there are enough touchstones for us to see ourselves, albeit a far murkier, Continue Reading
Fun! 60 muppets perform The MUppet Show theme acapella
What’s better than just one muppets whistling a happy tune and getting all zeitgiesty and parody-inclined? Why 60 of them that’s what and all of them, as one, recreating the iconic The Muppet Show theme song acapella with Pepe and Rizzo adding their own rapping flair to one of Continue Reading
Hooray Shaggy! Be Cool, Scooby Doo is, well, pretty cool
Beloved pop culture properties like Bugs Bunny, Star Wars and Scooby Doo are beloved for a very good reason – there’s a lot to like about them. In the case of Scooby Doo, one of Hanna-Barbera’s most enduring set of characters, the gang from the Mystery Van, whose best Continue Reading