*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WALKER PARTIES LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WITH LOUD MUSIC, BONFIRES AND ROPED-UP GUARDS* Thank the Diseased Big Walker in the Sky, we have a reprieve from Negan’s swaggering blandness this week. Admittedly we get it still by proxy with Simon (Steven Ogg), The Walking Continue Reading
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Tugging at the festive heartstrings. Join #BustertheBoxer in this year’s John Lewis Christmas ad
SNAPSHOT This is the story of a little girl called Bridget who loves to bounce. When her mum and dad buy her a trampoline for Christmas, they soon discover that she isn’t the only one with a passion for jumping. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Christmas is almost upon us Continue Reading
Missed it by that much: 29 TV and film spin-offs that almost happened
So near … and yet so very far. As Mike Rugnetta from Mental Floss’s List View details, that’s been the fate of many a spin-off proposed for popular TV shows and movies. You’d think that someone proposing a spin-off from say Friends, Cheers or The Wire would be greeted with Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #9: “Wedding Bell Blues” (S5, E13)
As Gilmore Girls continued on its quirky merry way into its later seasons, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show gradually got darker and darker. Not The Wire or Sopranos darker obviously because frankly where would be the fun in that, but darker nonetheless, with a willingness to leave characters hanging in the Continue Reading
Freeze Big Bird! Sesame Street takes up the mannequin challenge
Demonstrating once again that they are hip to the viral groove, Sesame Street has taken up the Mannequin Challenge, which according to the good people at Wikipedia is “a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a video is recorded, usually with the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Hong Kong Phooey
Hong Kong Phooey is yet another of Hanna-Barbera’s long line of cartoon creations that seems to have had a far longer on-screen life than he actually did. In truth, the entire series which is comprised of 16 episodes which in turn broke down into 2 sub-episodes, only ran for a Continue Reading
First impressions: Love (E1 “It Begins” and E2 “One Long Day”)
It was ABBA who once sang, in one of their more obscure early releases, that “Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. In a nutshell it summed up everything that many of us feel about love. On the surface love is all wine and roses, romantic dinners with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Service” (S7, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE VILLAINOUS QUIPS PER SQUARE METRE THAN A BOND VILLAIN CONVENTION* Like a broken record played over and over and over again by a zombie instinctively remembering they once loved this thing called “moo-zik”, the producers of The Walking Dead endlessly regale us with Continue Reading
Bodies of clay: Rick and Morty’s The Non-Canonical Adventures
Rick and Morty, from the hilariously fetid, gloriously imaginatively trippy minds of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, is one of the best animated series to emerge in recent years. Not only does it sport brilliantly-realised characters who are over the top dysfunctional but authentically and humourously human, and a premise Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #8: “Raincoats and Recipes” (S4, E22)
On the surface, “Raincoats and Recipes”, which finished off a busy and sometimes tumultuous fourth season for Gilmore Girls, was all about Lorelai (Lauren Graham) finally opening her own inn, a 20 year old dream that finally found fruition in concert with close friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy). But it Continue Reading