The Simpsons couch gags are damn near legendary. For 27 seasons, the show hailed by The A. V. Club as “television’s crowning achievement regardless of format”, has begun each episode with a humorous depiction of the show’s titular working class family settling into their living room ready to watch TV. Continue Reading
Scrappy Little Nobody: Anna Kendrick has an amusing essay collection in the works
Next to the superlative Sandra Bullock of which no ill can ever be said, the delightful Anna Kendrick, who is well known for her sparklingly funny, self-deprecating Twitter account, is one of my favourite actresses. She has starred in a range of impressively good movies such as Up in Continue Reading
Independence Day: Resurgence – Another battle we cannot win … or can we?
SNAPSHOT We always knew they were coming back. After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can Continue Reading
Now this is music #68: Ladyhawke, Gazzo, Sara Hartman, Kill J, Peter Bjorn & John
Life is short, people. We know that. But how is that influencing what you’re doing with it? Are you playing it safe, sitting nice and still for fear of upsetting the apple cart, real or imagined? Or as these five artists urge, are you going all out on your Continue Reading
Movie review: Mother’s Day
If there’s one thing that Hollywood, and in this case director Garry Marshall, likes more, well quite possibly than mothers themselves, it’s a good old, well-used formula. Worry not about well-rounded characters, authenticity of any kind and emotions that even come close to ringing true; no, what you need Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Ouroboros” (S2, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND APOCALYPTIC SHOPPING … AND WELL-TRAVELLED WALKERS* As the fractious passengers of the Victor Strand (Colman Domingo)-helmed, good ship Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t aka Abigail sailed down the Californian coast, it became patently obvious that there’s not a lot of trust going Continue Reading
Side by side: The first and last frames of classic TV shows
When you commit to watching a TV show, particular a long-running one, you become so enmeshed in its ups and downs, its narrative stepping stones and the growth and change of its characters, that it’s hard to remember what it was all like at the beginning. You grow with Continue Reading
Happy London Eurovision Party! Recap from VIP guest blogger Christoph Fischer
In recent years The Eurovision Song Contest has staged a series of parties at select cities throughout Europe to build up excitement and momentum ahead of the event itself and to extend the Eurovision season a little bit further than one stellar week in May. This year, parties were Continue Reading
You know his name: Welcome back Jason Bourne! (Trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in “Jason Bourne.” Paul Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Flagstones! It’s the Flagstones! They’re the modern Stone Age … wait, what what now?!
While some of the more obscure Hanna-Barbera characters such as Squiddly Diddly or Jabberjaw may not very well known among the general public, there’s one family, a “Modern Stone Age Family” in fact, who everyone will instantly recognise – The Flintstones. But The Flintstones didn’t start out life as Continue Reading