SPOILERS AHEAD … NOT TO MENTION POOR DECISION-MAKING, A NAKED GRAB FOR POWER AND A SHIPWRECKED YACHT As showcases for humanity go, I think we can all agree that the zombie apocalypse is not exactly anyone’s finest hour. In the double mid-season finale episodes, “The Unveiling” and “Children of Continue Reading
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All in this together: New Will & Grace S9 promo and poster
When news broke back in May that Will & Grace would be coming back to NBC, its ancestral home where it played a huge, very funny role in helping the world at large to better understand what it means to be gay in today’s world, everyone (well, mostly everyone) Continue Reading
Bing Bong on the small screen? Butch Hartman has some cool ideas for Pixar TV spinoffs
Pixar is a creative well that never seems to run dry. Pretty much every film – with the exception of Cars 1-3 which has not really connected with me in anyway – brings with it a wealth of memorable characters, a involving, heartfelt and intelligent narrative and a life lesson Continue Reading
The home of beautiful misfits: Thoughts on Glow season 1 (Netflix)
As decades go, the 1980s were, possibly even more than the lurid, out there ’70s, pretty hard to miss. Drenched in hypercolour T-shirt vivid pastels, decked out in lurid leggings and shoulder pads the height of Everest, this was a decade that screamed “Look at me dammit!” It was also Continue Reading
Love the in-joke filled Silicon Valley opening sequence? Here’s what it all means
When it comes to amusingly stinging satire, it’s mightily hard to go past Mike Judge’s satire of modern tech corporate life, Silicon Valley. Gleefully parodying everything from startup culture to venture capitalist funding, tech gurus with egos bigger than their ability to starstruck programmers dreaming of making it big Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Red Dirt” (S3, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE LOT OF ILL-ADVISED SCHEMING WITH A SIDE ORDER OF RAW HORSE … Oh the lies we tell ourselves huh? Let’s face it, the apocalypse makes hanging onto all that Mother Theresa/boy scout/George Washington morality and honesty more than a little hard to pull Continue Reading
Are there monkeys in Ernie’s bed? There are and elephants in the sock drawers too #SesameStreet
Next to Grover, who is my favourite Sesame Street monster bar none, I have a huge amount of affection for Ernie (especially) and Bert, the two diametrically-opposite housemates who have long amused and delighted with their Abbott and Costello-ish antics. Now Ernie is starring in a delightful musical number, Continue Reading
Rick and Morty season 3 has a release date! No, really …
Rejoice and be glad lovers of inter-dimensional travel and those who practise it, for we have a release date for Rick and Morty season 3! It has been a long time coming and frankly some of us doubted it would ever come to pass but on July 30 at Continue Reading
Raise your marmalade sandwiches high: Farewell Michael Bond, creator of Paddington #RIP
Back on one warm Friday morning in late 2014, I walked into a darkened cinema in Sydney, beyond eager (but also a little trepidatious) to watch Paddington, the big screen adaptation of Michael Bond’s much-loved bear. I needn’t have worried because the people who brought this film to life, Continue Reading
A fascinating journey: Adam Driver talks about finding his true vocation as an actor
SNAPSHOT Before he fought in the galactic battles of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Adam Driver was a United States Marine with 1/1 Weapons Company. He tells the story of how and why he became a Marine, the complex transition from soldier to civilian — and Arts in the Continue Reading