Paul Feig, director of The Heat, 2011’s Bridesmaids, and cult TV show Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) is a man propelled by a laudable mission – to increase the representation of strong, funny women in Hollywood films. But it’s not just some warm and fuzzy notion of joining the pop Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Comic-Con TV trailer-palooza: Arrow, Doctor Who, True Blood, Family Guy, Husbands + more
As always, Comic-con, which has just wrapped in San Diego (18 – 21 July), provided an embarrassment of pop culture riches for everyone who was there, and thanks to almost instant transmission via social media, even to those of us who couldn’t make it. There were panels galore, the usual Continue Reading
Who’s got the nod? Dissecting the nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards
Bring me sackcloth and ashes! * Let there be wailing and gnashing of teeth! ** And may you successfully duck as fingers point every which way while cries of “J’accuse” echo all around. Yes another awards show has announced to the world who its favoured children are, in this Continue Reading
The twisted strands of HELIX: new show debuts on syfy in 2014
SNAPSHOT When a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, they quickly find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. (source: beyondhollywood.com) Continue Reading
What are you risking it for? The Walking Dead to get “crazier” in season 4
It if wasn’t clear already, what with homicidal Messiah-complex leaders like The Governor (David Morrissey), packs of amoral flesh-craving walkers, and destructive internal power plays, the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead is a dangerous place to be. And if this trailer, released at Comic-Con on July 19 Continue Reading
A pleasing plethora of movie and TV posters: Almost Human, Banshee, Godzilla, Thor: Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Yes we have posters! So many posters and it’s time to share them with you. Yes you – watch and be visually tantalised … First up is the latest poster for one of J. J. Abram’s new TV season offerings, Almost Human, which is set 35 years into the Continue Reading
Yum! Imogen Heap is cooking up a deluxe treat for her new album
It is not many artists who use a slinky and a blender to herald the arrival of the deluxe version of their next album. But then not many artists are as delightfully out-of-the-box, and artistically-visionary as Imogen Heap. Via this series of tweets and the video featured below them, Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Review of “The Pickett Line” (S3, E7)
* Aye, there be spoilers ahead me hearties * (I am using a pirate voice because frankly it makes as much sense as much of the writing on Falling Skies of late) Welcome ladies and gentleman, and stray flower-loving Volm, to another episode of Days of the Masons, a show Continue Reading
“Dear Mr Watterson” – “Calvin and Hobbes” gets the documentary treatment
I have loved comic strips for the longest time. While Peanuts is my first great love, and has been joined my affections in recent years by such superlative strips as Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and the insightful and adorable artistic triumph that is Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts, it is Continue Reading
“Defiance”: Review of season 1 finale, ‘Everything is Broken’
Embodying pretty much everything you could want in an explosive, emotionally-rich, fingernail-embedded in armchair finale, “Everything is Broken” was a fitting end to season 1 of syfy’s groundbreaking new show Defiance (which operates in conjunction with a Massively Multiplayer Online game, or MMO, of the same name). Central to Continue Reading