One of my fondest memories growing up was watching Adam West and Burt Ward fight the bad guys with a BIFF! a BAM! and a POWWW! in ABC’s three season-long TV series Batman. Camp, colourful and endlessly entertaining, it was the gloriously trippy Caped Crusader’s yin to Christian Bale’s Continue Reading
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Fear the Walking Dead – “TEOTWAWKI” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A RATHER LONG PRECIPITOUS DROP TO A ZOMBIE PIT FAR BELOW … You may not think that you can prepare for the End of the World As We Know it – both a kickass R.E.M. song and the long form version of tonight’s acronymic title Continue Reading
Can David Tennant calm your cats and dogs? He can and it’s purrr-fectly marvellous
SNAPSHOT Pet behaviourist Karen Wild and vet Robert White-Adams (with a little help from David Tennant) talk about the science behind the first films for cats and dogs designed to help calm them around fireworks and loud noises. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) This is a genius idea. Bring together Continue Reading
Want to get close to aliens? Time to get yourself Ghosted!
SNAPSHOT From 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Gettin’ Rad Productions, a cynical skeptic (Craig Robinson), and a genius “true believer” in the paranormal (Adam Scott), are recruited by a secret government agency to look into the rampant “unexplained” activity in Los Angeles — all while uncovering Continue Reading
Stargate Universe lives on with a new comic resolving that bittersweet cliffhanger
SNAPSHOT Stargate Universe followed a exploration team on an ancient spaceship called Destiny, and their attempts to get back to Earth from billions of light years away. In the season two finale, the decision is made to put Destiny on a three-year, faster-than-light jump while the crew goes into Continue Reading
Sesame Street parodies strike again: Witness the tasty fun of Orange is the New Snack
Sesame Street is the unquestioned monarch of parody. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, True Blood to Pirates of the Caribbean and many more in-between, the parodies from the unquestioned originator of the gold standard in televisual children’s education have amused and instructed in equal measure, proof that Continue Reading
It’s bloody art! Every Game of Thrones handdrawn for your flipping pleasure
A lot of people have died on Game of Thrones. A LOT. If you’re dedicated viewer of the watercooler conversation-dominating medieval saga, which is gearing for a considerably shortened two final seasons this year and next – or a standard season split into two purely by marketing/ratings and not Continue Reading
Does Netflix have a GLOW? Why yes they do
SNAPSHOT Glow tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women’s wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits, Ruth also has to Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead – “Eye of the Beholder” / “The New Frontier” (S3, E1 & E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF ZOMBIES, SURVIVALISTS AND THE ODD HELICOPTER … Any idea that Fear the Walking Dead is the poor, insipid younger sibling of the The Walking Dead – not an opinion I held but one that had been widely articulated online – were put to Continue Reading
Females are STILL strong (and funny) as hell: Thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 3
Watching any episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is always a frothy, fun delight. Saturated in a cartoonish, often surreally colourful fashion, where the quirky and the everyday sit happily side-by-side, and populated by characters prone to pronouncements that make sense only to them (and yet somehow make sense Continue Reading