There is one movie I am looking forward more than any other next year, Muppets Most Wanted – for proof see here, here and yes all the way over here – and I am thrilled to bits that the promotional effort leading up to it is every bit as zany, Continue Reading
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All I want for Christmas are my UK TV specials: Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Still Open All Hours
One of the time-honoured traditions of Christmas in the UK, and to a lesser extent Australia, is the screening of specially filmed one-off festive episodes of TV series, that may or may not be part of that show’s official canon. Tucked in between a blizzard of repeats – which Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look like a scary Grimm Christmas – “Twelve Days of Krampus”
SNAPSHOT After a string of delinquent teens go missing, an old Wesen tale of an evil Santa who brings more than just a lump of coal may be the prime suspect. The investigation intensifies as Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) take things a little too far. Meanwhile, Continue Reading
The Blacklist fall finale: Anslo Garrick parts 1 and 2 (S1, E9, 10 review)
It is always a pleasure discovering that your initial partial negative suppositions about a new show were unfounded and that it is so much more than you expected it to be. As we bid a short, Christmas-hiatus farewell to The Blacklist (known here in Australia as James Spader’s The Continue Reading
Zeitgeist Embyronic #2: 5 more possibly amazing shows in the throes of development
Ah the breathless anticipation of what might be! It’s enough to get the pulse racing, the heart a-thumpin’ and your clammy, trembling hands reaching for the remote, eager to watch those much talked about programs now. Ah-ah-ah not so fast my friends! For many of these shows are Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Too Far Gone” (S4, E8 review)
*Yes there are spoilers … and walkers … and bloodbaths and mayhem* And so the end has come – well the mid-season end anyway with no new season 4 episodes till February 2014 – giving us two wholly different but emphatic answers to the great thematic question of this Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art 11: The relentlessly cheerful art of James Hance
I love those random moments in life when you decide to do one thing instead of the other – for the record I was supposed to starting the next module of my online Photoshop course and chose to graze down my Facebook timeline instead; best procrastinating ever! – and Continue Reading
Play God. Pay the price: the new extended Helix trailer
Helix, the latest show from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), is increasingly looking like another chillingly salutary lesson in what happens when humanity gets delusions of grandeur and overextends itself, with unforeseen devastating consequences the nightmarish result. What starts out a routine operation to a remote privately-run arctic research facility Continue Reading
A multiplicity of trailers for Orphan Black season 2 (2014)
SEASON 2 SNAPSHOT Season two of the series hits the ground running with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day, Parks and Recreation) in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler, Carrie). Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone, Rachel (Maslany), dividing and imperiling all Continue Reading
Girls (and guys) just wanna have a watch of the Girls season 3 trailer
They’re back! And as blissfully unaware, emotionally screwed up and hilarious as ever. Yes, Hannah (Lena Dunham, who is also the creator and executive producer of the show), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet) are back for a third serving of twenty-something angst and Continue Reading