I am not usually one for rampant nostalgia, happy to return to much-loved TV shows, music, books or movies for the occasional visit but rather averse to living there permanently. After all, looking at everything through the rose-tinted glasses of the past makes everything look a little odd after Continue Reading
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Thin on the ground: How many people are left alive in The Walking Dead universe?
Hands up everyone who thinks that a raging zombie virus that has erased almost all signs of Homo Sapien life from the face of the planet may not be so good for robust population numbers of plant Earth by said hominid? OK everyone? Good, pretty much all on the same Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Your most-loved pop culture characters unmasked!
If you’re like me, you’ve likely spent a great deal of time with your favourite pop culture characters, their presence enriching everything from lazy childhood Saturday mornings spent spread out on the couch watching cartoons to nostalgic adult nights spent wondering where your youth went … wait, is that Continue Reading
SMOOTH … Sesame Street seamlessly delivers a stunning rendition of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Tha Crossroads”
Sesame Street has always been way up to the minute and astutely hip to the groove. And now thanks to Adam Schleichkorn, who previously gave us the mash-up gem of The Muppets performing the Beastie Boys’ “So What’cha Want”, they just got even more street cred thanks to his Continue Reading
Can I be honest? This is what The Walking Dead (S4-6) is really all about says Screen Junkies
The Honest Trailers from Screen Junkies are simply brilliant. Even if you are utterly devoted to a show like The Walking Dead, which yours truly and so many others are, it’s still fun to take a step back and laugh at some of the wild inconsistencies in the show. Continue Reading
First impressions: Colony
Colony is one of those enormously-promising shows that seems to spring fully-formed into the pop culture consciousness. Drawn from the prolific hand of Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel, The Strain) and co-creator Ryan Condal, Colony presents us with a not-too distant Los Angeles, ringed by a giant wall and under the Continue Reading
Wizards of Aus: When fantasy figures hilariously seek a new more normal life
SNAPSHOT Fed up with the Magical Realm’s obsession with large-scale fantasy warfare, Jack the Wizard decides to migrate to the sanest place he can think of: Melbourne’s Western suburbs. After accidentally causing a magical catastrophe, his existence (and that of his fellow magical immigrants) is revealed to the Australian Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “The Same Boat” (S6, E13 review)
*SPOILERS … AND DEATH, LOTS OF DEATH AHEAD* No surprise that Death reared his black-hooded head again this week on The Walking Dead. And as is the usually when he turns up, no one was particularly thrilled to see him, most particularly the one person you would think Continue Reading
Why hello Titanosaur! Meet Sir David Attenborough
I am an original wildlife documentary nerd. It didn’t matter if the documentary is about long gone animals such as dinosaurs or more recently-departed megafauna or animals very much alive in the here and now, I will watch it and watch it avidly, lost in a world far beyond Continue Reading
First impressions: Superstore
If you’ve been paying attention to network sitcoms, and by that I mean anything that appears on NBC, CBS or ABC and yes even Fox these days, you will have noticed that they have an aversion to straying too far from the norm. They may get occasionally wacky or out Continue Reading