Compelling though many protagonists are, and they need to be if you’re going to make it to the end of the average novel, it’s a rare thing indeed to fall headlong in love with a lead character to the extent that you do with the whimsical, trusting but ultimately Continue Reading
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Poster me this! The Flash, The Walking Dead, Legends of Tomorrow
I’m a visual guy. Explain something to me using big, bright pictures and clearly-spelled out steps and I’m happy as a pig in really clean, easy-to-wash-off mud. The same goes for the advertising of TV shows (and movies for that matter) – gift me with a really cool, memorable Continue Reading
Thanks For the Money: Joel McHale debuts his book’s hilariously quirky trailer
Joel McHale is a very funny man. Blessed with model-handsome good looks and spot-on comic timing, he has gifted us with humourous performances as Jeff Winger in Community, and 11 years of amusingly satirical hosting of The Soup (2004 – 2015). And now, in keeping with the man’s gifted Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #2: “The Bracebridge Dinner” (S2, E10)
It would be fair to say that Stars Hollow, the cosy, postcard-perfect town that Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) is as much a character in the show as any of its human inhabitants. Sporting the requisite central town square, quaint shopfronts, and cosy neighbourhoods you can walk Continue Reading
Obsessed with film? So is Movie Mind Machine in the most hilarious way
The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s a Continue Reading
From Bowie to Bieber: The under-appreciated art of the music video (curated article)
The spectacular release of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade earlier this year, and the critical response to it, has fleetingly put the music video in the spotlight. For a ubiquitous and influential art form, music videos tend to be easily dismissed and under-analysed, which means it took something as extreme Continue Reading
What’s going on? What’s happening? Will and Grace cast (temporarily) reunite
In news that thrilled the hearts of almost everyone – TIME Magazine was NOT a fan let’s be honest – the cast of Will and Grace (1998-2006) reunited for an all-too-brief 10 minute episode all about the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Centred on Will (Eric McCormack), Grace (Debra Messing), Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: The Addams Family
Way back in the dim, dark days of my childhood, I somehow missed how often episodes of my favourite TV cartoons were repeated. Not surprising in one way since (a) I was a child and the immediacy and fun of something was the preoccupation, not a statistical repeating pattern – Continue Reading
Movie review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
The inherent ability of the ordinary to turn, without warning, into the extraordinary and take everything else along with it in a status quo-unsettling melee, sits at the centre of a great many stories, especially those in the fantasy and young adult genres. Inherent in these sorts of narratives is Continue Reading
Just dance! TV show characters get their groove on in Timberlake mashup
A deftly executed mashup is a viral thing of great joy and so it is with the latest superlative effort from What’s the Mashup? which blends dance footage from 75 television shows ranging from Friends to Sponge Bob Square Pants, Mr. Bean to Happy Days and The Simpsons to Continue Reading