Christmas is beautiful. Really, really beautiful. Look around you – lights twinkle, plain green trees (to be fair gorgeous unadorned too) are festooned in baubles and tinsel, and yes, more lights, lit sculptures hang over on streets with word like “JOY” and “PEACE” split out in festive colour … and Continue Reading
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The end of everything … or the beginning? Thoughts on Invasion (S1, E7-10)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME SNEAKY ALIEN STUFF GOING ON … Remember that scene near the end of Die Hard (which is yes, a Christmas movie) where everyone including John McClane (Bruce Willis) thinks their Christmassy ordeal is over until, all of sudden, head bad guy Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … Festive singing, dancing and all the feels with Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (movie review)
Christmas is usually the most wonderful time of the year. But when you have just lost someone impossibly near and dear to me, and you have have fond and abiding memories of Christmas, it can often feel like the land that happiness forgot, a season awash in jollity, tinsel and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: S7, E 7 & 8 review + World Beyond: S2, E 9 & 10 review
THE WORLD BEYOND: “Death and the Dead” / “The Last Night” SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END, MY FRIEND, THE END … AND THE BEGINNING … The final two episodes EVER of World Beyond – unlike its stablemates, the show was only ever designed to be a limited series and Continue Reading
Will the Robinsons finally get home? Thoughts on Lost in Space (season 3 – final)
The Robinsons have been, and will always be, the beating heart of Lost in Space. By necessity, that was the case in the original Irwin Allen-produced 1960s original version of the show where, wacky aliens and strange contrivances aside such as the time the family went back to 1947 thanks Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I put 15 pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. The Rescuers, UP, Toy Story, Ahsoka Tano, Peanuts, Dr Seuss + Scooby-Doo
We all know history repeats itself thanks to the ongoing presence of human being in the process who alas have shown a freakish propensity for making the same mistakes over and over and over again, but did 2021 really have to ape 2020 so completely and absolutely? I think we Continue Reading
Christmas classic review: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
There is no doubting the universal appeal of Charles Dickens’ 1843 A Christmas Carol. Interpreted by just about franchise going, including the Muppets, and even run in reverse by the likes of Blackadder and Scrooged, A Christmas Carol appeals because it maintains with exuberant moral certainty that the hopes and Continue Reading
Is there hope at the end of the world? Station Eleven says “YES” (series trailer)
SNAPSHOTA post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, this limited drama series tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and re-imagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost. Created for television and showrun by TV filmmaker Patrick Somerville (also Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: S7, E 5 & 6 review + World Beyond: S2, E 7 & 8 review
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “TILL DEATH” AND “RECLAMATION” … You could be forgiven for thinking, and yes, that is still possible even in the midst of the apocalypse, that there’d be precious little humanity left in a landscape given over not only to the dead but also Continue Reading
Where does destiny end and self-fulfilment begin? Thoughts on Foundation (E 8-10)
One of the prevailing themes of the masterful storytelling that is Foundations, adapted from Isaac Asimov’s saga of the same name, is how of what happens to people the result of blind, immutable destiny and how much resides in our often fallible hands? Musing on this great conundrum has kept Continue Reading