One of the things I remember most fondly about my childhood are the annual holidays my family and I used to take at my grandparents place in Noraville, NSW, 800km away from where my family lived near Byron Bay and a world away from the limited choices of a Continue Reading
So much sci fi: The Extinction Parade + Sense8 + Firefly … oh my!
I am huge fan of sci-fi, something which is likely immediately obvious when you see the sorts of shows that regularly pop up on this blog. There is something about this most imaginative of genres, which by its very nature pushes the boundaries of what is possible often just Continue Reading
Movie review: Thor The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World, Marvel’s latest entry in its ever-expanding movie franchise universe, is a film that shouldn’t work as well nor be as much fun as it eventually is. Directed by Alan Taylor (Mad Men, Games of Thrones), who takes over from the more Shakespearian-inclined Kenneth Branagh who Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Indifference” (S4, E4 review)
*UNDEAD SPOILERS AHEAD* DING! DING! DING! Welcome ladies and gentleman’s to this week’s The Walking Dead Battle o’ the Wills! In the white corner, we have Farmer/Fighter/father Rick (Andrew Lincoln), 5′ 10″ and 170 lbs of simmering contemplation and halting conversation. And in the red corner, awash in blood Continue Reading
Don’t get your DNA in a knot – we have a new HELIX promo!
“DON’T LET THEM TAKE YOU” You only have to mention that Ronald D. Moore is involved in a show for me to sit up and take notice immediately. That’s pretty much what happened when I first encountered news of his new show, Helix, which is set to premiere on Continue Reading
Movie review: Blue Jasmine
We all do it – fashion all or part of the often unpalatable realities of our lives into forms more pleasing to the eye and less troublesome to the soul. But Jeanette Francis aka Jasmine French (Cate Blanchett), the titular Blue Jasmine of writer and director Woody Allen’s latest Continue Reading
You shall not sit! The Simpsons hilarious epic The Hobbit-inspired couch gag
The Simpsons, now entering their 25th season on Fox, may not be quite the toast of the zeitgeist as they once were, but the show has by no means surrendered its claim to wickedly funny and inspired pop culture parodies. In fact, judging by the latest epic couch gag, Continue Reading
Falling Skies meets Harry Potter (kind of) in season 4 (trailer)
Falling Skies, now under new showrunner David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) may not be back on our screens with season 4 till mid-2014, but production is already under way on the next (hopefully) exciting instalment in the apocalyptic alien invasion series. While details are scant so far, we already know Continue Reading
The Waltons reunion: My heart swells with joy once again
One of the shows I remember watching as a child, and being quite moved by week after week, was The Waltons (1972-1981), a show based on Earl Hamners Jr’s book Spencer’s Mountain, which centred on a family struggling to get by in rural Virginia during the Depression and the Continue Reading
“Everything is awesome!” The LEGO® Movie debuts brilliant new trailer
If you think that Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) from NBC’s Parks and Recreation is the height of amped-up super-duper positivity, then you haven’t met Emmet (Chris Pratt), from The LEGO® Movie, an ordinary, everyday Lego guy who does jumping jacks pretty much straight out of bed, ecstatically pays $37 Continue Reading