SNAPSHOT Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a Continue Reading
Oh no they didn’t! Hilarious Parks and Recreation bloopers
Parks and Recreation is without a doubt one of the funniest sitcoms of the current age, blessed with sharp, satirical writing, a great sense of time and place that it plays to perfectly, and a cast replete with more talented comedians that you can possibly count. (OK yes you Continue Reading
5 things I love about the upcoming Fall TV season
There’s new TV a-coming! While I often complain about finding the time to watch the great bounty that the current golden age of TV is lavishing upon us, the truth is I love finding and discovering new shows to lose myself in. Will this be the next Fringe? The Continue Reading
Dial up the DHD! Stargate MAY be returning
I am a hopeless romantic. I believe that ideals will win out over pragmatism (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). I like to think that the better angels of our nature will always win out. And I expect that long dormant franchises will burst back to life when I Continue Reading
Movie review: Mortal Instruments – City of Bones
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare, is an epic film. Styled to within an inch of its life, its loaded to the brim with kickass leather-clad good guys, and assortment of demons, vampires and werewolves of varying allegiances – no zombies surprisingly Continue Reading
I got Scarlett Johansson’s new movie Under the Skin
By most accounts, Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, which attracted equal parts cheers and jeers at its world premiere overnight at the Venice Film Festival, is an unorthodox creature. Featuring little in the way of a standard narrative, and apparently even less dialogue, it relies on evocative atmosphere, and starkly Continue Reading
Please … help … me: The Walking Dead’s creepy new season 4 teaser trailer
OK this is seriously eerie. Walking down an empty hallway, convinced you hear footsteps and voices even though no one is there, CREEPY. I am not surprised that Rock, who you would think would be inured to anything unnerving by now, turns around to listen to a voice that Continue Reading
Eurovision update: what’s happening in its poptastic world?
It’s been almost four months since the last of the pyrotechnics fizzled to half-hearted sparks, and the spandex was packed away for another year so it seems like the perfect time to find out what’s happening in Eurovision’s bright and shiny glitter-spangled world. After all, it’s a scant nine Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #7: “The Sparrow” by Maria Doria Russell
WHAT I THINK IT’S ABOUT In the first two decades of the 21st century, genetic research surged ahead, unlocking the genomes of countless living creatures including man himself, and of course, the sparrow. Drunk with the power of limitless knowledge, and their newly-acquired ability to play “God”, scientists began Continue Reading
Happy Labor Dean from @NBCCommunity!
No sign of an air date yet for the unexpected if shortened fifth season of NBC’s now all-Dan Harmon, all the time Community, which commenced filming on August 19, and which will only feature Danny Glover’s character Troy Barnes, one half of the iconic Troy and Abed (Danny Pudi) Continue Reading