Be warned aliens of the universe! (And those very annoyingly still on Earth; yes that means you Espheni, half-hearted Volm and whoever the hell you new guys are.) Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) is mad. Very, very mad. So mad in fact that at the encouraging hand of the mysterious new Continue Reading
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“Now let’s get out of here and destroy the whole universe!” Rick and Morty return for a second crazy fun season
SNAPSHOT Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) is still living with his daughter Beth’s (Sarah Chalke) family and causing more trouble than ever. This season the rest of the family, his son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell), grand-daughter Summer (Spencer Grammer) and grand-son Morty (Roiland) are dragged into Rick’s intergalactic adventures, as he Continue Reading
Run! And Fear the Walking Dead (trailers + poster)
SNAPSHOT The series will star Cliff Curtis (Missing, Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm). It will take place far away from the Atlanta, Georgia setting of The Walking Dead in the Continue Reading
Cookie Monster hungrily handles a giant edible dinosaur in Sesame Street’s Jurassic Park parody
Technology is a marvellous thing isn’t it? It gives us the power to speak to a friend far away in an instant, or even fly quickly to see them, allows us to cure disease, throw together a dazzling, motivational Powerpoint presentation on a whim … and yes, create giant Continue Reading
“Here’s the story …” 3 TV show opening themes I am loving right now: Wayward Pines, Outlander, iZombie
A TV show’s opening titles matter. It may not look that way with the brutally-efficient way most modern TV show do away with their identifying openers as if they are pesky gnats to be swished away at a balmy early evening summer picnic, but they do matter. Think of Continue Reading
First impressions: Dark Matter
If you were to pick one place, and one place only, to wake up, devoid of all your memories and sense of self, there’s a high likelihood it wouldn’t be aboard a largely powered-down, dead-among-the-stars spaceship whose only sign of life, and the term should be used loosely, Continue Reading
Outlander: “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” (S1, E16 review)
* Many a spoiler and some stampeding cattle lie ahead * One of the most defining aspects of the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s series of Outlander books has been how fearless, utterly fearless its producers have been in telling its long and winding, heart-stoppingly epic tale. Manifestly lacking Continue Reading
So Captain Picard, what’s with all the Blunt Talk then?
SNAPSHOT Set in Los Angeles, Blunt Talk follows Walter Blunt, a British import intent on conquering the world of American cable news and the fallout from his well-intentioned, but mostly misguided decision-making, both on and off the air. Through the platform of his nightly cable news show, Blunt is on Continue Reading
“What fresh hell is this?”: The hilariously revengeful sorority whodunnit, Scream Queens
SNAPSHOT Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Scream 4). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Continue Reading
And now that the glitter has settled … Eurovision 2015 wrap-up
And the winner is … SWEDEN! After what can only be described as one of the most tense voting sessions of any Eurovision Song Contest I’ve ever witnessed – at one point, first place was an effective three way tie between Russia, Italy and Sweden, with Russia edging ever Continue Reading