SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS, WEIRD MARRIAGE PROPOSALS, AND A REALLY POOR (OR GREAT, DEPENDING ON YOUR PERSPECTIVE) VINTAGE Game of Thrones has always been a BIG show. A big, epic, grand, expansive show that took in the entirety of the lands of Westeros and then some, a multitude Continue Reading
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Special bonds live on: Big Hero 6 The Series set to launch
SNAPSHOT “The series picks up immediately following the events in the movie, and continues the adventures of 14-year-old tech genius Hiro and his robot Baymax. Joining the pair on their journey is control freak Wasabi, scientist Honey Lemon, fanboy Fred and no-nonsense Go Go, who together form the Big Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Rocko’s Modern Life
I have always liked my cartoons larger-than-life, super-absurd, colourful, silly and full of clever ideas and witty oversized characters. In other words, just like Nickolodeon’s ’90s classic Rocko’s Modern Life. Created by Joe Murray, who originally invented the character of Rocko the wallaby for a comic book series that Continue Reading
Ozark: Delve into the dark, dangerous, and sometime quirky, world of money laundering
SNAPSHOT Ozark is an upcoming American drama series created by Bill Dubuque. Jason Bateman will play financial planner Marty Bird, who suddenly relocates from a Chicago suburb to a summer resort community in the Missouri Ozarks, and who must pay off a debt to a Mexican drug lord, with Continue Reading
Toying with expectations: Michael Tucker examines the storytelling of #GameofThrones
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
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