My but don’t the owners of iconic pop culture properties like to re-invent them! You see it all the time in the movies where re-imaginings and reboots crop like mushrooms on the forest floor after heavy rain. It’s less common in animation where characters may get tweaked and finessed Continue Reading
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I’m moving to Ryanville: New commercial features (almost) nothing but Ryan Reynolds
Hey did I tell you I’m moving? Yep, all of a sudden. Happy where I was, loving my housemate’s company, my partner’s proximity, my fun, funky, cafe-rich neighbourhood and then … WHOOSH! Packed and moved JUST. LIKE. THAT. I’m not entirely sure why really … oh hell of course Continue Reading
First impressions: The Shannara Chronicles
Generally speaking when we’re shown a dystopian view of future Earth, there’s something innately recognisable about the people and the places they inhabit. Sure they may be a whole world away from anything we know but there are enough touchstones for us to see ourselves, albeit a far murkier, Continue Reading
Fun! 60 muppets perform The MUppet Show theme acapella
What’s better than just one muppets whistling a happy tune and getting all zeitgiesty and parody-inclined? Why 60 of them that’s what and all of them, as one, recreating the iconic The Muppet Show theme song acapella with Pepe and Rizzo adding their own rapping flair to one of Continue Reading
Hooray Shaggy! Be Cool, Scooby Doo is, well, pretty cool
Beloved pop culture properties like Bugs Bunny, Star Wars and Scooby Doo are beloved for a very good reason – there’s a lot to like about them. In the case of Scooby Doo, one of Hanna-Barbera’s most enduring set of characters, the gang from the Mystery Van, whose best Continue Reading
They’re all Animals on HBO (posters + trailers)
SNAPSHOT ANIMALS focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth’s least-habitable environment: New York City. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own. Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my Aussie childhood: Blinky Bill
Blinky Bill is an Aussie icon. First appearing in Brooke Nicholls’ 1933 book Jacko – The Broadcasting Kookaburra, Blinky Bill was the creation of Dorothy Wall who conjured up a young, feisty anthropomorphic koala who did everything a young boy such as I was then wanted to do. He had Continue Reading
You better run, run run: The Hunters will find you (trailer)
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), Hunters is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, in which the disappearance of a decorated FBI agent’s wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a group of ruthless terrorists – shadowy Continue Reading
First impressions: The Expanse
Depending on where you stand on the sci-fi spectrum, humanity is either bound for a glorious Star Trek-ian future of gleaming cities, equity for all and peace throughout the galaxy, or it’s doomed for a gritty Blade Runner-esque world where cities lies in filthy ruin, climate change has run Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #2: Teachers, Baskets, 11.22.63, The Path, the 100
Oh ye who think that you might actually have some time to sleep, eat and smell the roses once you’re done with the five programs in Tons o’ Trailers #1 – abandon all hope of doing anything but watching a host of great programs on TV … because here Continue Reading