*SPOILERS AHEAD! AND LOTS OF ALIEN-CHASING CARDIO* Well, catch me a giant cod, slap its head on Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) and call him an Espheni Overlord, Falling Skies finally found its gung-ho storytelling mojo in “Stalag 14th Virginia”! Granted it was in the third last episode ever Continue Reading
Whoosh! The Flash season 2 teaser trailer is here then it’s gone
One of the unexpected delights of the last year TV-wise has been The Flash, one of the ever-expanding list of DC Comics properties on the small screen. I say “unexpected” because I have never been a great fan of superhero comic books nor their movie or TV adaptations but Continue Reading
Movie review: Ricki and the Flash
Following your dreams is one thing. Following your dreams, moving to California, abandoning your family in Indiana who grow to resent you (mostly), and finding your dreams aren’t quite what they’re cracked up to be; ah, well, that is quite another. It’s a lesson Ricki Rendazzo aka one time Continue Reading
The Muppets Fun x3: Floyd and Animal, Kermit and Fozzy, Big Bird and Jimmy Fallon
The Muppets are beyond awesome. We all know that right? But sometimes clips come along that remind just how brilliantly eternally awesome every last one of the characters are, no matter whether they’re on The Muppets new ABC called, rather prosaically, The Muppets, or on Sesame Street (granted the Continue Reading
Now this is music #54: Holy Models, sjowgren, CAPPA, Galantis, TACACHO
Get up and dance people! It’s Friday, your cubicle no longer needs yo,u and your dancefloor most certainly does. But fear not; should intense full on gyrating prove a tad too taxing, there’s some quieter but no less emotionally-ebullient music to luxuriate in as well. There’s something for everyone Continue Reading
Movie review: Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you begin an espionage action movie. Particularly one as gloriously over the top, in all the best possible ways, as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the latest instalment in the classic TV show-cum -movie franchise that literally shows no sign of slowing down anytime Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
We are not a patient people any more. Too many words on the page? Not gonna read that. Song goes over three minutes. Off goes the radio. TV program doesn’t have three deaths, an epidemic, alien and zombies by the gigazillion in the first two minutes … well “Hello!” Continue Reading
“We are the (flying) Men in Black”: Air New Zealand’s funky new air safety video
Let’s be honest. Not a lot of us pay attention to the necessarily ubiquitous safety videos that every airlines plays before takeoff. I am one of the very few who actually does it, figuring knowing how survive the “unlikely event of an aircraft crash” – see I have even memorised Continue Reading
Movie review: Holding the Man
History, it has been often be observed, is written by the victors. Or at the very least, by those who manage to outlast everyone else around them. However, in the case of Tim Conigrave (Ryan Corr), the author of posthumously-published iconic memoir Holding the Man, now a deeply-moving film Continue Reading
Risking it all for love: New extended Carol trailer
SNAPSHOT Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novella The Price of Salt, which tells the story of a lesbian romance in the ’50s written by Highsmith under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The rather unprecedented homosexual love story–for the time in which it was written–follows the relationship between two very different Continue Reading