OK I get it. Desperately fighting for your life in the midst of a zombie apocalypse is not exactly a whole lotta fun. If you’ve not scrabbling to get away from ravenous chompers, you’re keeping one eye cocked on your fellow humans, who may or may not have your Continue Reading
The Muppets go all (Lady) Gaga in new TV special
I have no idea how I missed this most unique of connections since I am a fan of both The Muppets and Lady Gaga but it appears the two doyens of the zeitgeist have been BFFs for quite some time now. According to eonline.com, who announced that Lady Gaga Continue Reading
TV review: “Orange is the New Black” (pilot episode)
Right so Orange is the New Black is one series that I am quite late to the party to by virtue of Australia being criminally Netflix-less and no one wanting make up for that terrible reality by buying the show a ticket on that fast track express mode of Continue Reading
Now this is music #16: Blood Cultures, Elizabeth Rose, Iselin Solheim, Yellerkin, Fe
Why don’t you ever hear politicians campaigning on a platform of ear candy for the masses? With all the amazing music everywhere these days, of which the following five songs are just a drop in the sonic ocean, surely they should be bringing in programs to ear worm each Continue Reading
TV Reviews: The Goldbergs (pilot) and Hello Ladies (pilot)
THE GOLDBERGS It’s one thing to see a long ago period of history portrayed on television where you have no direct links and no real emotional connection, and another entirely to watch a decade you lived through (yes all of it) come to life again. But The Goldbergs, a Continue Reading
Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock trip the light fantastic … on a Big set of piano keys
Oh happy piano key tap dancing days! Two of my favourite actors in the whole world, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock – as opposed to the intergalactic ones but that’s a matter for another post entirely – appeared together on the October 12 edition of The Jonathan Ross Show in Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “30 Days Without an Accident” (S4, E1 review)
* minor spoilers ahead * Picture this if you will. It’s a bright, sunny day, the birds are softlly chirping (no, they really are; the one thing that can outfly the undead it seems) and one Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), former Ricktator, now gentleman farmer splashes his face with Continue Reading
Movie review: About Time
I am very much of the opinion that Richard Curtis, a man who has brought us such cinematic delights as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, and now the charms of About Time, leads a charmed, romantically rarefied existence far beyond the reach of the Continue Reading
Looking for some belly-ripping laughter? Try Aliens: The Sitcom
This is pretty much my new most favourite thing ever! Aliens, as terrifying a movie as you’re ever likely to see, re-imagined by the very funny Dorks of Yores (a YouTube channel featuring the work of Mad TV‘s Pat Kilbane and The New in Living Color‘s Melissa McQueen) as a cheesy Continue Reading
TV reviews: Mom (pilot) and Trophy Wife (pilot)
MOM I am always in two minds when it comes to Chuck Lorre sitcoms. On one hand he makes winningly accessable sitcoms that appeal to a wide range of people, meaning of course that he is a network TV darling able to bring in the audiences, and thus, the Continue Reading