If there’s one thing, and there are many, that I love about Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls, it’s the unwillingness of its lead character Hannah Horvath (Dunham) in all her poorly-judged, often even more poorly executed glory to simply do her own thing. Granted it’s meant that both she Continue Reading
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Popped Culture: Dan LuVisi’s gloriously twisted take on pop culture icons
SNAPSHOT POPPED CULTURE features 64 pages of Dan LuVisi’s bizarrely skewed takes on popular culture in one eye-popping book. Some of the images contain short stories, explaining the disturbing and/or sometimes thoughtful backstories behind the characters. The book also includes some amazing work from several guest artists: Chase Conley, Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Now” (S6, E5 review)
* SPOILERS … AND A RATHER NASTY DOSE OF REALITY LIE AHEAD * Life, especially life in the apocalypse, doesn’t really play fair does it? There you are, all happy and content, playing happy families behind tall, strong walls, making like life is as it’s always been when, Continue Reading
Dev has a lot of questions: Aziz Ansari stars in Master of None
SNAPSHOT Master of None follows the personal and professional lives of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and both sweeping in scope and intensely personal, Dev’s Continue Reading
“Demented” reading: Kids books get a pop culture makeover courtesy of Joey Spiotto
One of my wondrous parts of my childhood was sitting down with all my Little Golden Books and reading the afternoon away. There was something so enticing about the iconic book line, with its glittering gold spine and array of storytelling possibilities, that had me hooked from the word Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Here’s Not Here” (S6, E4 review)
* SPOILERS, AND THE PATH TO SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT LIE AHEAD * “Here’s Not Here” was a remarkable episode in many ways. It wasn’t simply that it followed last week’s action-packed, high-adrenaline episode “Thank You” in which – SPOILER! – Glenn died/did not die/got way too close to a dumpster for Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls are back! Where they lead, I will follow …
Gilmore Girls is, hands down, one of my favourite ever TV series. It’s not simply the storybook setting of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the engaging mother-daughter pairing of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), the fast-paced, witty, wordy (in the best possible sense) dialogue stuffed full of insightful, deftly-placed Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Thank You” (S6, E3 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MORE ZOMBIES THAN YOU SHELTER ON A DUMPSTER FROM * If there’s one thing we’ve learned in six seasons of The Walking Dead, and most particularly in last week’s gory attack on Alexandria, it’s that death and the apocalypse go together like inseparable Continue Reading
Run away! The aliens are coming to get you in Hunters
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) andNatalie 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 Continue Reading
Stay between the lines: Games of Thrones and Outlander colouring books are on their way
In case you missed it, adult colouring books are IN. With a host of benefits ranging from switching creative gears and the increased productivity that results to simply getting in touch with your inner child, lots of very grown up people including someone you probably know, are getting their Continue Reading