With season 7 of Game of Thrones mere nanoseconds away from kicking off – a slight bit of hyperbole but after waiting so long, it does feel like that – Michael Tucker aka Lessons From a Screenplay arrives with a timely look at the way HBO’s ratings juggernauts frames Continue Reading
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Rikki Tikki Tavi! Rick and Morty have some new non-canonical adventures
Rick and Morty is, hands, and other sundry body parts, down, one of the most fabulously weird, gloriously and delightfully over the top cartoons on anywhere. There is nothing I don’t like about it – it’s witty, clever, gleefully crass, spectacularly imaginative (the world-building and characters are nothing short Continue Reading
Welcome to Hawkins huh? New Stranger Things S2 poster presages ominous things to come
SNAPSHOT It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived. (Official Netflix synopsis) The arrival of Continue Reading
A grand and glorious epic: All the Game of Thrones S7 trailers in one dragon-sized video
Game of Thrones has always had a lushly cinematic quality, one that is likely to be come even more pronounced given report of movie-length episodes in season 7, which starts 16 July, and season 8, which lands in 2018. To underscore just how big, vast and visual the landmark Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Unveiling / Children of Wrath” (S3, E7 & E8 review)
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
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