Game of Thrones title suggests many things – the perverse lengths many men and women will go to grab hold of the shiny brass ring of absolute power, the insanity of thinking that holding onto something as ephemeral as power will last any longer than a game, and whether Continue Reading
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Wayward Pines: “Once Upon a Time in Wayward Pines” S3, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTASTEFUL SMELL OF DREAMS DYING* So dreams huh? Lovely things to hold onto, filling you with hope and expectation, great lyrical fodder for Disney musical songs or Hallmark cards, but a real nasty piece of work when they die and disappoint. Or if you’re Continue Reading
Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers
It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading
First impressions: Be Cool Scooby-Doo
Reviving much-loved pop culture characters can be a challenge. Too much homage to nostalgia, to the much-loved but well worn tropes that defined the characters in the first place and you’re simply consigning them to an increasingly small niche and possibly eventual creative stagnation and obliterative irrelevancy. Too much new Continue Reading
Read with Amy Schumer: The Girl With the Lower Back tattoo
It pretty much goes without saying that Amy Schumer is a very funny lady. The creator, co-writer, co-producer and star of sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer and the writer and star of last year’s hit romantic comedy Trainwreck, Schumer has an enviable gift of combining humour with poignancy Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Blood Harvest” (S2, E2 review)
Are you having a really crappy day at work? I’ll hazard a guess and say though that it’s nowhere near as the bad as the ones suffered by Dr Theo Yedlin (Jason Patric), Ben Burke (Charlie Tahan) and Kerry Campbell (Kacey Rohl), and to a lesser extent Jason Higgins Continue Reading
Dive in! Go swimming with Rick and Morty in Drake mash up video
Rick and Morty own the zeitgeist. OK maybe not all of it but what with creative direction from Mr Community himself Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, an imaginative pallette that knows no bounds, Earthly or otherwise, and insanely quotable quotes and memorable visuals, they at least a fairly significant Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Enemy Lines” (S2, E1 review)
Good old humanity. Even when they’re handed a nice bright and shiny chance to save themselves, they manage to soil it, scuff it and break in two, all the while holding a knife to their own throats. The good citizens of Wayward Pines, trapped in a future oasis of Continue Reading
The Simpsons build a couch IKEA-style courtesy of Michal Socha’s couch gag
Ah, IKEA furniture. Looks funky and modern and lots of people own at least one of its pieces (including me) but my lord its a thousand kinds of evil clowns in a car to put together. The devilry of putting together your latest IKEA bookcase or cupboard is something Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Shiva” (S2, E7 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … A ZOMBIE MEAT-TASTING PARTY AND MORE UNHINGED BEHAVIOUR THAN A HOUSE FULL OF LOOSE DOORS* It won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone that zombie apocalypses – or as Celia (Marlene Forte) rather delusionally calls them “new beginnings”; yep thanks, you can keep your Continue Reading