“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
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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
Poster me this #4: Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Girls, Haven, August: Osage County
I have written long and often about my love of really clever, visually striking movie and TV promotional artwork. Not everything produced in the art department salt mines of the movie studios and Tv networks is worth featuring of course but a great deal of it is, since let’s Continue Reading
Movie review: Enough Said
Enough Said is one of those rare romantic comedies that actually feels like it’s happening in a reasonably good approximation of real life. There are no gilded cages, no idealised lives, no perfect romantic moments unsullied by the odd misstep – it’s all delightfully, painfully, awkwardly real and a Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #3: Review of Grimm S3 premiere “The Ungrateful Dead”
… and we’re RACING! Barely pausing for breath, and picking up just a few minutes before season 2 ended with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) racing through the container yard, a pack of snarling, ultra-aggressive zombie-like people hot on their heels, Grimm kicked Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #2: My 5 favourite hilarious and/or scary sitcom episodes
It’s not that often that “BOO!” is followed by thigh-slapping gales of laughter and raucous guffaws – unless of course someone thought to turn True Blood or The Walking Dead into sitcoms (it can only be a matter of time surely) in which case laugh away as you have Continue Reading