SNAPSHOT Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel Continue Reading
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Star Trek Discovery: “Despite Yourself” (S1, E10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND UNLIKE ALADDIN, IT’S NOT SO MUCH A WHOLE NEW WORLD AS A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE … We’re not in galactic Kansas anymore Toto! In “Despite Yourself”, an apt title for an episode where the issue of identity is a constant theme, the crew of the Continue Reading
Comics review: Dastardly & Muttley (issues 1-4)
If you’ve looked around you this year and thought the world had gone quite horrifically, cartoonishly mad (hate to break it to you but it has), then you’ll find a lot to appreciate in the new(ish) Dastardly and Muttley series from DC Comics. Continuing the mostly clever reimaginings of Continue Reading
Small screen, big stories, much bingeing: My favourite TV shows of 2017
These days I don’t watch as much TV as I used to. That’s not because of some great philosphical turning against television, with which I continue to have a passionate and longstanding romance – one that endured despite a rock start at age 4 when I encountered TV for Continue Reading
Happy Christmas everyone! May pop culture bless you every one …
What a big year it has been! Horrible in some respects – Trump, Australia’s treatment of refugees and North Korea sending off missiles I’m looking at you – but also delightful, wonderful, warm, funny and good for the heart, soul and spirit. Much of that joy has come from Continue Reading
On 8th day of Christmas … I watched retro TV ep “Don’t Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa” (The Partridge Family)
If there’s one thing that is always totally and utterly welcome in any TV show’s Christmas episode, especially in a series already delightfully rife with cheesy, heartfelt moments, it’s a happy, cosy, all is well with the world neat ending, preferably one tied up with a pretty red glittery Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Paddington / The Adventures of Paddington
Michael Bond’s Paddington is a delight any way you come to meet him. Whether it’s through the enormously charming books, the first of which, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958 following the author’s purchase of a single teddy bear sitting on a shelf in a store near Continue Reading
TV yet to come … Barry + Altered Carbon + Krypton
Since we are well and truly in the lead up to Christmas, I thought it quite apropos to title this post TV yet to come … Granted this is just a drop in the bucket of the seeming millions of new TV shows coming our way in 2018 – Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I re-watched Gilmore Girls: “Forgiveness and Stuff” (S1, E10)
If there’s one family that isn’t belting out a rousing rendition of Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time” with brio and eggnog-enhanced joy, it is the Gilmores of Stars Hollow and Hartford, Connecticut. Fresh from Rory’s (Alexis Bledel) innocent misadventure post-formal Chilton dance (“Rory’s Dance”), where she Continue Reading
Dance! Dreams come magically true in The Supporting Act
Christmas isn’t called the most wonderful time of the year for nothing. There is something inherently magical about the season, a sense, whether justified or not (I’m a Christmas junkie so guess which side of that equation I fall on), that anything can happen. More importantly that if it Continue Reading