The Sixties were a tumultuous decade to say the least. The certainty of the rigid and often blatantly sexist and racist social mores of the ’50s and early ’60s were swept aside as the counter-culture “Flower Power” revolution gained momentum, a host of countries around the world gained independence, the Continue Reading
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A recipe for Captain Picard face palm cookies? Get me to a kitchen and … Engage!
Being the captain of a Starfleet vessel is not an easy task at any time, what with aggressive Klingons or Romulans always on the lookout for a bruising encounter, Q liable to pop at a moment’s notice and inconvenient rips in the space/time continuum to contend with. It’s even Continue Reading
Scorpion: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
Scorpion is, on paper at least – and let’s face it, none of the characters, save for possibly veteran FBI special Agent Gabe Callo (Robert Patrick), would be seen dead around anything so physical and antiquated – a bundle of well-used network formula drama tropes that have been gathered together from various police Continue Reading
Undead LOLZ: The Walking Dead S4 gets the Bad-Lip Reading treatment
There isn’t much to laugh about in the deadly serious world of The Walking Dead. After all, a mysterious virus has long since turned the vast majority of the world’s population into slavering, flesh-craving undead beings, left those people who remain alive fighting day by day, inch by inch Continue Reading
Good times and bad guys: The dimly-lit world of Moonbeam City’s Dazzle Novak
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1980s, with the color palate to match, [Rob] Lowe plays Dazzle Novak, a not-so-bright undercover cop who is always in search of a good time (when in fact he should be hunting down the bad guys). Banks co-stars as Novak’s hard-ass boss, while [Kate] Mara Continue Reading
No one told you it was going to be this way: Happy 20th anniversary to everybody’s favourite Friends!
Happy 20th anniversary Friends! Yes, everyone, you are officially allowed to feel ridiculously, insanely old as you realise – rather quickly unfortunately thanks to the totally unambiguous declarative sentence that opens this anniversary tribute – that the first episode of Friends, a seminal sitcom that defined what life was life Continue Reading
Moone Boy: The comfort and power of an imaginary friend
“Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Me neither. But there you go.” And with that pithy, funny, narrative-encapsulating line, Moone Boy, set in late 1980s Ireland and starring Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Girls, Family Tree) as said imaginary Continue Reading
Thank you for being an incarcerated friend: Orange is the New Black meets The Golden Girls
There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way. But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life Continue Reading
The Big Bang Theory returns with S8! (See what happens behind the scenes)
The Big Bang Theory is back! After three humour-less Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah-Fowler (Mayim Bialik) free months, weeks and weeks where Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) weren’t staring dreamily into each other’s eyes, and nanoseconds without number without Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj Continue Reading
A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away: Cookie Monster stars in Star Wars parody “Star S’mores”
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away…Princess Parfaita was taken prisoner by the evil Galactic Empire and had to be saved by a group of unlikely heroes including the young Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie. One of the Continue Reading