TV

  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

  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

  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

  *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

  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

  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

  *SPOILERS … BRIGHT RED LIGHTS AND MORAL CONUNDRUMS AHEAD*   Sinners or saints? It was THE big question looming large over The Walking Dead this week in “Not Tomorrow Yet” when everyone was forced to confront whether they weren’t getting a little morally questionable and relativistic in their old Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Season one left off with Madison, Travis and their extended family taking temporary shelter in Strand’s gated estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As civil unrest continues to grow and the dead take over Los Angeles, the group prepares to escape to Abigail, Strand’s large yacht moored offshore.” There Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND COWARDLY MEN WITH KNIVES … AND COWS* It was a case of worlds getting a whole lot bigger in “Knots Untie”. While on the surface a warm and fuzzy wonderful thing to have happen to anyone, in an apocalyptic world where brute survival rules and Continue Reading