You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading
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‘Cause I’m happy! Well … HAPPY-ish (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT “Coogan stars in the lead role of Thom Payne, a 44-year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25-year-old “wunderkind” boss arrives, saying things like “digital”, “social” and “viral”. Is he in need of a “rebranding”, or does he just have a “low joy ceiling?” Maybe Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “What Happened and What’s Going On” (S5, E9 review)
* BEWARE OF SPOILERS, DEATH, AND YES, OF COURSE, WALKERS* It is one of the great cliches of death and dying that your life supposedly flashes before your eyes. Having not shuffled off this mortal coil as of yet – unless of course I am going all Ghost on Continue Reading
Waltzing glittery Matilda! Australia to compete in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
Fetch me a kangaroo in spandex! A coterie of bowls-playing grandmothers making scones. A phalanx of surfers atop waves made from pure glitter. Pyrotechnic displays that recall the burning cane fields of Broadwater, New South Wales. And a key change as big as the Australian Bight! Australia, yes Australia, Continue Reading
“What kind of monster puts artisanal butter in the freezer?”: All the fun of the teaser trailer for Silicon Valley season 2
Hands down one of the best TV show premieres of 2014, and I would be so bold as to say the funniest, was HBO’s Silicon Valley, a by all accounts startlingly authentic depiction of life in America’s hot bed of technology development and dreams, centred on a typical startup, Pied Piper, hoping, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What would Disney characters look like in the grim world of The Walking Dead?
We are just days, mere days, away from eight more episodes of season 5 of The Walking Dead, a show dedicated to survival, zombie-killing and philosophical musings on the nature of humanity and whether you can return to the person you were before you did what was necessary to Continue Reading
Brain-filled pasta anyone? iZombie debuts a freshly undead trailer
SNAPSHOT Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to Continue Reading
The Many Epiphanies Of Jessica Fletcher: A Murder She Wrote compilation
When I was but a wee lad – OK slightly older than a wee lad but hardly the veteran TV watcher of today – in the mid-1980s, I was absolutely devoted to Murder She Wrote, a show than on CBS from 1984 to 1996 (followed by four movies released Continue Reading
Comic books draw even more of the offbeat crazy fun out of Rick and Morty
One of the most, if not the most, absurdly irreverent, hilarious, offbeat, crazy, imaginative, deliriously-wacky, gloriously politically-incorrect (in a way that even Family Guy, hardly a bastion of traditional family values, might blanch at) discoveries of last year was Rick Harmon and Justin Roiland’s Adult Swim animated series Rick Continue Reading
Drowning in pixels: Yes there is a lot more TV on our screens nowadays
See I told you I wasn’t imagining it! There is a LOT more TV on our screens that there was even five years with the number of original scripted series more than doubling from 80 in 2009 to 180 in 2014. And the growth is even more impressive, points out Continue Reading