SNAPSHOT Way back in the swinging ‘70s, movie producer Sol Schick was the guy behind such cheesy classics as Quarry: Bigfoot!, Noah’s Ark: Found at Last! and Heavenly Visitors from the Hell Above. But when he’s murdered – at a film festival! – with a piece of Noah’s Ark! Continue Reading
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Winter is here – and so is a fearsome new Game of Thrones S7 trailer and posters
SNAPSHOT At the end of season 6 Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) dragons and her immense army were finally on the way to Westeros, where Cersei (Lena Headey) has now become Queen after the death of her children. The Night King’s (Vladimir Furdik in season 6) army is heading south, and Continue Reading
Is there existential depth to Rick & Morty? “Wubbalubbadubdub yes!” says creator Dan Harmon
One of the really impressive things about Rick and Morty, Adult Swim’s incredibly clever animated series about an alcoholic scientist grandfather and his often hapless but EQ-rich grandson, has been the way it merges bright, funtastic visuals, amazingly imaginative worldbuilding and intelligent storytelling that doesn’t just spin out a Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “100” (S3, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND NO WATER FOR SOCIALISTS … Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. (from Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Never were truer poetic words committed to the written word. And never were they more pertinent or desperately poignant that in Continue Reading
The only Batman for me: RIP Adam West
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
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