Show business has had a long and productive love affair with the axiom “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, happy to keep churning out variations on a theme, or even the same theme itself with minimal changes, if the viewers kept turning up to consume it. Everyone is Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life” (S7, E16 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LONE VERY SURPRISING ZOMBIE* Step right folks, step right up! It’s finale time for The Walking Dead season 7 which if you had listened to the unceasing torrent hype emanating from showrunner Scott Gimple, actors like Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 3 – Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Visit Green Gables: Come meet Anne all over again (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and many challenges, fights for love and acceptance and her place in the world. Set in Prince Edward Island in the late 1890s, the series centers on Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty), a young orphaned girl who, Continue Reading
Colony: “Lost Boy” / “Seppuku” (S2, E11 & E12)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, RELIGIOUS DISILLUSIONMENT … AND ONE REALL MESSY ROOF* It will surprise no one that humanity is a self-destructively contrary creature, just as apt to heroically sacrifice itself in the pursuit of a pure ideal, as it is to self-sabotage if it thinks that Continue Reading
A sequel to Love Actually? To me, that is perfect
Love Actually is one of those films that is either deeply loved, or ridiculed beyond measure (perhaps it’s the schmaltziness? Who knows). I fall most definitely into the former camp, having fallen in love with the film when it first came in 2003, having decided for reasons that still Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 2 – Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Film and TV show icons get the stamp of approval
These stamps are gorgeous aren’t they? Not real unfortunately, and you won’t be licking them onto an envelope any time soon or at all, but they are, nevertheless, gorgeous. They are the work of Clark Orr, who has imagined in the most visually arresting of ways, what an impressive Continue Reading
Silicon Valley: Changing the Way Things Change (season 4 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill) brings his irreverent brand of humor, and his own experiences working in Silicon Valley, to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 1 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading