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
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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
Grab some string and gum and make a nuclear reactor! MacGyver is back
SNAPSHOT In MacGyver, the twentysomething Mac is behind the formation of a new (but not necessarily publicized) government organization where he can showcase his amazing knack for using science and critical thinking to solve any problem that comes his way. And as you might imagine, some of those problems Continue Reading
Loving living the living life: USA makes a Colbert-inspired bid for Eurovision inclusion
It may come as a surprise to many but until this year the Eurovision Song Contest had never been broadcast in the USA. Hard to believe but true. Granted there is so much going on within America pop culture-wise that getting on the radar there can be an almost Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (poster and title reveal)
Waiting for the chance to return to Stars Hollow is proving well nigh interminable with the Gilmore Girls scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime later this year. But at least we now have a title – thanks to an announcement by Lauren Graham on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (see Continue Reading