SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FRIENDS AND ENEMIES AND FRENEMIES, AND OF COURSE, ZOMBIES … AMC, it turns out, isn’t all that well practised at heeding proverbs. Fair enough in one sense – what was in vogue a couple of millennia ago, so much so that the Bible decided a Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 5 – Moldova, Montengero, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The watercolour wonder of Alina Chau
There is an exceptional beauty and gentleness to the extravagantly beautiful work of Alina Chau, an animator with many years experience in the industry who has worked on the likes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Beautiful and gentle it maybe, embodying the loveliest aspects of watercolour work, but Continue Reading
Countdown to new Lost in Space: First 3 eps original 1960s series (review)
Nostalgia is a pretty unreliable lens to look at anything through, prone to rose-coloured distortions, warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, and a willingness to forgive all kinds of deficiencies in the service of venerating something you love. All of which complicates reviewing a series that came out in the year I Continue Reading
Looking right down the barrel: Colony S3 trailer previews toughest season yet
SNAPSHOT The new season begins six months after the Bowmans’ escape from the Los Angeles bloc as Will (Holloway) and Katie (Callies) struggle to rebuild their family in the world beyond the walls. When their peaceful existence is shattered, they are sent on an odyssey that will finally reveal Continue Reading
Countdown to new Lost in Space: Original comic book series (review)
Pick up any issue of Space Family Robinson Lost in Space, and the first thing you’ll notice beyond the gloriously melodramatic painted covers, is the complete absence of pretty much every character we love in Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space TV series. Where’s Zachary Smith? The Robot? Major Don Continue Reading
The One With Purple Walls: How design powerfully influenced Friends
SNAPSHOT “I said I think we should paint the wall purple. Everybody was really anxious about it. Nobody likes change until I painted the little model purple. Color is really important in terms of establishing the show identity. …One of the responsibilities of a production designer is to look Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 4 – Australia, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Oh my you’re cinematically naked! What movies look like without special effects
CGI is in! It’s in BIG in movies and if you’ve seen any blockbusters lately, and if not, why not, there are some damn good ones out there, you will have seen all kinds of gloriously-created worlds (think A Wrinkle in Time), augmented characters (War For the Planet of Continue Reading
My Dad’s favourite TV shows: Dad’s Army #HappyBirthdayDad
My Dad would have been 85 today. He died back in 2016 in the worst June I have ever had the sadness and misfortune to live through but as time has time has moved on, as it always does with unsentimental determination and ferocity, I have found myself remembering Continue Reading