Cats are natural born actors. Sure much of the time they pit their prodigious talents one side in favour of living a boldly authentic life, one which includes turning up their noses at the cat food they normally devour in one sitting and demanding to be out the back Continue Reading
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Back in The Flash! Everyone’s favourite speedster is returning soon with season 3
Oh what a tangled web we weave huh Barry? When last left everyone’s favourite speedster – although that status could be in danger given how rash he has become of late, his spontaneous, hotheaded decisions causing no end of chaos – he had raced back in time (again), saved Continue Reading
Who’s Your Daddy? The Blacklist gears up for a full-on 4th season
(image via Spoiler TV) In recent years I have increasingly stopped watching a lot of the network shows I used to favour such as Law and Order and CSI in favour of the much more nuanced fare available on the cable providers who tend to be far more adventurous, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Grotesque” (S2, E8 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD! AND A REMINDER THAT CACTI SHOULD NOT FORM A STANDARD PART OF YOUR POST-APOCALYPTIC DIET* #Roadtrip #You’redoingitwrong In the first episode of the back half of Fear the Walking Dead season 2, we went with Nick (Frank Dillane) on a cross country trek across, or rather up Continue Reading
You can’t take the (animated) sky from me: Stephen Byrne’s beautiful Firefly trailer
It is a common lament of Browncoats, those of us who LOVE Firefly, Joss Whedon’s cancelled-far-too-soon sci-fi western – yes the word “LOVE” must be italicised at all times such is our fervour – that there will likely never be another iteration of this wonderful show. Of course, you Continue Reading
This TV show makes me totally Speechless … and yeah, that’s a good thing
SNAPSHOT Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband Jimmy, her kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves, Continue Reading
12 parsecs or bust! Conan O’Brien auditions a galaxy of comedic talent for young Han Solo
Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that Alden Ehrenreich has been chosen to play a younger Han Solo, in one of series of Star Wars films designed to give us some backstory on Continue Reading
Wubba lubba dub dubs: The cast of Rick and Morty improvise a mini-episode
Rick and Morty is delightfully, deliciously, darkly, fabulous strange and wildly imaginative, both verbally and visually – yes I seem to have slipped into an alliterative stream and I’m just going to go with it – delivering up two seasons of wacked-out adventures through space, time and weird dimensions on Adult Continue Reading
First impressions: HBO’s The Night Of
It’s tempting when you’re watching a glossy TV series centering on the criminal justice system like Law & Order or CSI to assume that everything works meticulously well and that its very inhabitants from the police through to the crime scene investigation teams and lawyers work together as a harmonious Continue Reading
The Get Down: You can rule the world
SNAPSHOT The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal Continue Reading