*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GUNSHOTS, MISTIMED TEENAGE PASSION AND A FEMALE ABBIE WITH MORE STREET SMARTS THAN YOUR THE AVERAGE BEAR* Let’s hear it for the new Wayward Pines cardio programme! With life in the prettiest apocalypse ever – make no mistake, old-fashioned US town notwithstanding, that humanity has Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Quitters, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Five Nights in Maine, Table 19, A Monster Calls
So many movies, so little time. Short of camping out in the movie theatre for weeks at a time, a fun idea that unfortunately comes with some real hygiene and livability issues, you need to take a good hard look at trailers for upcoming movies and work out which Continue Reading
Grace and Frankie: A whole new definition of “It’s Complicated”
On a scale of things you really don’t want happening to you late in life, when the kids are grown, you finally have the time to pursue your passions and work is close to being a distant memory, having your partner leave you for someone else would have to rank Continue Reading
A rebellion built on hope: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT “Following the foundation of the Galactic Empire, a wayward band of Rebel fighters come together to carry out a desperate mission: to steal the plans for the Death Star before it can be used to enforce the Emperor’s rule.” (synopsis via Monkeys Fighting Robots) Pity the poor prequel, Continue Reading
Porcelain: The story of Moby is at a bookstore near you
SNAPSHOT Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it and hating it. It’s about finding your people, and your place, thinking you’ve lost them both, and then, finally, somehow, when you think it’s over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the Continue Reading
Scooby Doo: So You Think You Know Cartoons? Think again
I have loved Scooby Doo since the first time I set sight on the snack-loving goofy Great Dane and his four human mystery-solving cohorts. There was, and still is, something inestimably wonderful about the inherent silliness of the premise, and all its many recurring jokes from the “And I Continue Reading
Life can surprise you: Get yourself ready for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. (official synopsis via Netflix) If there is one thing that Steven Spielberg has taught us through his vast catalogue of otherworldly though grounded in heartfelt humanity Continue Reading
They’re alive, dammit! The giddy forward momentum of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
It can be hard to do optimistic well. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, movie or TV series or even a song, too much sugary goodness in the characters (or the narrative) doesn’t so much help the medicine go down as turn people off the unendingly upbeat character. It’s not Continue Reading
Death Knows No Borders: Fear the Walking Dead returns 22 August (promo + poster)
So the zombie apocalypse huh? It starts off with everyone all united, working together to get out of the damned death-filled hellhole that L.A. has become, and everything’s fine – well as fine as the end of the world can be which let’s be honest is really not fine Continue Reading
Hand of the Queen: How we love thee Tyrion Lannister – let us count the video montage ways
Everyone has their favourite character in a TV show. It doesn’t matter how well-written or acted an ensemble show is, and Game of Thrones is one of the very best of the current crop, there’s always a character or maybe two that grips your imagination or stokes your imagination Continue Reading