If you’ve watched any episodes of HBO’s megahit Game of Thrones, which returns to our screens on April 12, you will have noticed that becoming the king or queen of Westeros and sitting upon its imposing Iron Throne involves quite a bit of Machiavellian manoeuvring, a dragon or three, Continue Reading
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Everyone’s talking about Games of Thrones, even the cast of Silicon Valley
It’s time honoured way to spend your work day, well the bits where you’re doing your level best to not do actual work anyway. And it seems that not even Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, and Thomas Middleditch from HBO’s break out comedy hit of 2014, Silicon Valley, are immune, decked Continue Reading
Outlander: The Reckoning (S1, E9 review)
After waiting far longer than any Scotland-based historical fiction-loving TV fan with a burning predilection for time travel, kilts and romance of the bodice-ripping kind should legitimately have to wait, Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon, came roaring back atop a Highland steed in “The Reckoning”, in which you’d Continue Reading
Exciting news Kermie! “It’s time to meet the Muppets” again on TV!
It’s a universally-acknowledged fact that you can never spend too much time with Jim Henson’s greatest, most-beloved creations, the Muppets. And by “universal” I mean, of course that I long ago decided that I cannot have too much of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf the Dog, Gonzo, and of course Continue Reading
Relive the first 4 seasons of The Walking Dead through the wonders of this 8b-it video game recreation
These are dark days for The Walking Dead fans. Not only do we have to survive without our regular weekly doses of undead mayhem and the best and worse of the apocalyptic human condition until October, even the new companion series, set in Los Angeles that begins pre-apocalypse, doesn’t Continue Reading
Who got the power, who got the juice: Silicon Valley’s gloriously snippy season 2 trailer
Silicon Valley, created by the luminously-talented Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space), is a very clever sitcom. A satire of the technological hub centred around San Jose, California, and the startups it incubates so effectively, it is witty, perceptive, peopled by flawed but irresistible characters and according to Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Conquer (S5, E16 review)
*THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CRYING PRIEST, RANDOM WALKERS AND AN UNDEAD PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “W”… So a funny thing happened to me on the way from the review of season 5 penultimate episode “Try” to its movie-length Continue Reading
Team Leda vs. Team Castor: Who will triumph in Orphan Black’s third season? (posters + sneak peek)
Orphan Black is one very clever show. It has managed to do what many shows before it have failed to do, mixing together edge-of-your-seat action, strikingly well-defined characters – largely thanks to the uber-talented Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany who, to date at least, has played almost all the characters in the Continue Reading
So what would Friends be like if it got a modern hipster reboot? Why THIS actually
Ah the ’90s and early Noughties … such a simple, uncomplicated time when all any of the Friends had to worry about was whether the couch would be free at Central Perk (it always was, of course), whether Ross was with Rachel or they were on a break (getting technical Continue Reading
We cannot leave the magic: Fraggle Rock is going to be a movie! With Joseph Gordon-Levitt!
Jim Henson is deservedly regarded as one of the towering creative talents of the 20th century, a man who, gifted with a limitless imagination, an almost magical ability for imbuing each and every one of his creations with poignant humanity, and a delightful sense of the whimsical and the absurd, gave us an Continue Reading