As it marches ever onward through its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory, sitcom ratings juggernaut, geek flagbearer and hilarious diversion from the travesties of real life, has finally been the recipient of something it should have had a long, long time ago. Which is what you ask as Continue Reading
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Eulogies for the living come humorously alive in My 90-Year-Old Roommate
It’s one of the great truisms of life that, Pulitzer Prize winners and J. K. Rowling aside, writers don’t take on their craft as a profession to make money. In fact, pretty much any writer worth their blank Word page existential angst will tell you that they have to Continue Reading
Netflix my fill … and then some! My favourite TV shows of 2016
Another year, another deluge of TV shows delivered on multiple platforms that can be watched night and day, in single episodes or a hygiene-challenging bingefest of epic proportions. As ever, I am torn between the giddy delight of countless, immersive options straddling an enticing array of genres and a Continue Reading
Uh-oh it’s the infected undead! Fight ’em 8-bit The Walking Dead style
As we wait for the second half of season 7 of The Walking Dead to shuffle onto our screens in February next year, you wish to spend some time re-living the far away days, at least as far as storyline and still-present staff members are concerned, of season 1 Continue Reading
Feel like Christmas is doomed? Best call in Wes Anderson and Adam Brody!
I am usually the king of Christmas, convinced it’s so irrevocably the most wonderful time of the year that nothing can stand in its tinsel-draped, eggnog-soaked, ornament-decorated way. But after a year in which my dad died, easily the most horrible and difficult thing to happen to me in my Continue Reading
Is it alive? Colony season 2 teaser trailer suggests more unsettling surprises in the offing
Colony was one of the standout shows of 2016. A sophisticated, often tense exploration of the political and social schisms that emerge in society when a mysterious race of aliens arrive and take over the Earth, installing a proxy government to rule in their stead, it was never less Continue Reading
It’s a Stranger Things Christmas Charlie Brown!
SPOILER ALERT – ONLY WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVE WATCHED ALL OF STRANGER THINGS ON NETFLIX (optional for you to have read every Peanuts comic strip but c’mon why haven’t you?) I have always felt like I was Charlie Brown. Never quite fully understood, teased a lot as a Continue Reading
Air New Zealand wants you to come walking in a SUMMER wonderland!
As a Christmas romantic, the great disparity between the traditional northern hemisphere visual look of Christmas and the much warmer southern hemisphere reality has never troubled me too much. Sure there are some people who rile at the idea of celebrating sleigh rides, winter wonderlands and chestnuts roasting over Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … I re-watched the Eight is Enough episode “Yes Nicholas, There Is A Santa Claus”
If you have ever lost someone you love, and sadly it’s highly likely that you have, you will be painfully aware that their death is never the end of your grieving. Not by a long shot. Every time a major event comes up like their birthday, a significant anniversary Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Hearts Still Beating” (S7, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AD MORE OF NEGAN’S POINTLESS, NASTY POSTURING … OH, AND WATER ZOMBIES! This is the end, my friend, the friends and yet as we draw to a mid-season 7 close, you can’t help feeling that it’s just the beginning. You see, after being bullied, harassed and Continue Reading