*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE WORST WEDDING RECEPTION EVER* There’s nothing quite like a wedding is there? Love is in the air, happiness reigns, there’s laughter, drinking, heartfelt speeches and a wedding cake with enough calories to feed a small winter through a particularly harsh winter. Time’s are Continue Reading
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Yes I can! Channel 4’s inspiring ad celebrating the athletes of 2016 Paralympics
The Olympics is an impressive display of sporting prowess in anyone’s language. But while I enjoy the daring exploits of Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps, even more impressive for me are the achievements of the athletes who compete in the Paralympics every four years. They are superhumans in every Continue Reading
Divorce: Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church call it quits on HBO
SNAPSHOT Sarah Jessica Parker returns to HBO in the new comedy series, Divorce. Parker stars as Frances, a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought. Other series regulars include Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if the crew of the Firefly returned to Earth?
My love for Firefly is damn near legendary. (OK it’s not but that makes for a dramatic opening sentence and so shall it stay.) I love the show beyond words, as well the constant tributes paid to it by fervent dedicated fellow Browncoats such as Joey Spiotto who has Continue Reading
Will ya keep it down?! Noisy Bird of Paradise drowns out Sir David Attenborough
SNAPSHOT Birds of paradise are one of David Attenborough’s lifelong passions. He was the first to film many of their beautiful and often bizarre displays, and over his lifetime he has tracked them all over the jungles of New Guinea. In this very personal film, he uncovers the remarkable Continue Reading
What’s up Doc?! The origins of Bugs Bunny that’s what!
SNAPSHOT He doesn’t seem like a character from the nineteen forties. His anarchic gender-bending wiseass personality is pretty progressive even by today’s standards and he’s aged so well because he isn’t locked in any one specific pool of relatability. Something like the Flintstones can be revived again and again Continue Reading
Everyone deserves love: Lance Bass presents Prince Charming with a twist
Falling in love is hands down one of the most wonderful things that can happen to you. Along with the fluttering heart, the giddy obsession with one person and one person only, and the sense that life is exultantly beautiful and can only gets better, is the deeply satisfying Continue Reading
Get ready to get stuck in The Middle all over again (S8 promo + poster)
SNAPSHOT This year, the kids will find themselves breaking out of their comfort zones and navigating new situations than what they’re used to – which may or may not be very comforting to Frankie and Mike. Between juggling shifts and picking up fast-food dinners eaten in front of the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Los Muertos” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … BUS RIDES TO HELL … AND A SALUTORY LESSON IN NOT DRINKING AND ZOMBIE-SLAYING* It’s hardly surprising in a show called Fear the Walking Dead that you would have an episode devoted to death. In fact, it would be entirely reasonable if that’s all anyone Continue Reading
Everybody wants to rule the world: Gloriously good Game of Thrones montage video
It’s no secret, not after countless books by George R. R. Martin and six seasons of HBO’s watercooler-stomping megahit TV show, that everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to rule to rule the world. Or in this case, sit upon the Iron Throne and look out upon the Seven Continue Reading