SNAPSHOT Set in the 1880s American West, Godless follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (O’Connell), a prodigal son type who betrayed his former brotherhood. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge at the ranch of hardened, Continue Reading
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Star Trek Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” (S1, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE SAME OLD TIME SPAN AGAIN AND AGAIN … Let’s do the time loop again! OK, it’s not the time warp, and Dr. Frank n Furter is nowhere to be seen, but it is a staple of science fiction storytelling and happily, Star Trek: Discovery, Continue Reading
Fire it up! Go behind the scenes of Stargate: Origins
SNAPSHOT Origins will actually be a prequel to the original film, focusing on a younger version of the character Catherine Langford (first played by Viveca Lindfors). In the franchise’s mythology, Langford’s father initially discovered the Stargate, with Origins following the adventures that lead her to becoming the Stargate expert Continue Reading
Beware of The Walking Gingerbread! They will eat ALL your cookies #SesameStreet
One of the great, inestimable joys in life is when Sesame Street parodies a show you love. Their brilliantly-realised parodies are a joy on just about every level – they capture the look and feel of the target show while making merry with its premise, its characters and plots Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Lethe” (S1, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CANDY-COATED NEBULA THAT MAKES YOU THINK OF “LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS” … NO, REALLY … Imagine being so intimately connected with someone that you can feel their pain and distress over vast distances of space. Such is the bond though that exists Continue Reading
Release the demogorgon … again! Thoughts on Stranger Things S2 #Halloween
Stranger Things 2 is a slayer of pedestrian sequels. Ducking and weaving past the sophomore curse like a demogorgon on the hunt – or you’re Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matazrazzo), a “demo-dog” (yeah, no, it didn’t catch on) – the sequel to the Duffer Brothers zeitgeist-busting, watercooler-overwhelming show of 2016 Continue Reading
#Halloween cartoon: Guillermo del Toro’s Treehouse of Horror Couch Gag #Simpsons
Now this is how you mark Halloween everyone! Particularly if you’re Matt Groening and you want your then-latest Treehouse of Horror intro – this was for the 2013 special – to include everything from zombies to mummies to mutants and apocalyptic visions of a hellish future. Hire master storyteller Continue Reading
Monster in the Mirror: Grover delightfully goes all wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo
Grover, my favourite monster in the world – yeah sorry Godzilla and the Demagorgon, you’re not even in the running – is a lot braver than most people think. Sure he may be spooked by monsters at the end of books, and get a little nervous when he is Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Choose Your Pain” (S1, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A BIT OF A MUDDY SITUATION … In “Choose Your Pain”, where Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), after being unceremoniously kidnapped by L’Rell (Mary Chieffo), finds himself in a Klingon call with a fellow Starfleet abductee, Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) and The Original Series rogue, Continue Reading
Want to paint a pumpkin? Bert and Ernie can (bickeringly) help you with that
SNAPSHOT Welcome to Backyard with Bert, a vlog hosted by your favorite Sesame Street duo: Bert and Ernie! In today’s vlog, Bert & Ernie are competing in the Pumpkin Painting Challenge where they’ll have to draw a self-portrait on their pumpkins…blindfolded! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Ernie and Bert have Continue Reading