We’ve all been to dinner parties like it. What seems at first like it will be a relaxed evening over great food and fine wines with very good friends suddenly becomes weird, awkward and interminably long thanks to the presence of one unexpected, strange and oddly-self-involved guest with the Continue Reading
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Zach Be Nimble: One comedian, a piranha and Sesame Street teach us about being “quick and light”
It goes without saying that if you want to teach a lesson well, it must involve a piranha. It’s an educational truth so self-evident that it’s a wonder every learning institution in the world isn’t equipped with a school of the cannibalistically-feisty Amazonian creatures. Sesame Street, now in its Continue Reading
Outlander: “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” (S1, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD AND ALL MANNER OF FAERIE FOLK* Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us. Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches? Peasant 1: Burn them. Sir Bedevere: And what do you Continue Reading
Didn’t see that coming: Netflix’s Grace and Frankie deal with big changes in their lives
SNAPSHOT In Grace and Frankie, Jane Fonda (Grace) and Lily Tomlin (Frankie) star as two women whose lives are suddenly turned upside down when their husbands reveal they are gay and leave them for each other. Both sparring partners and partners-in-crime, they form an unlikely bond to face an Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Modern TV shows and movie get a retro ’80s VHS cover makeover
We’ve all heard the old adage “everything old is new again”, a wry commentary on the idea that everything from fashion to fads to old toys comes back around again eventually, but what about “everything new is old again”? It may not as common an axiom but in the Continue Reading
Grover Bluejoy is coming (eventually) in Sesame Street’s Game of Chairs (Game of Thrones parody)
If you’ve watched any episodes of HBO’s megahit Game of Thrones, which returns to our screens on April 12, you will have noticed that becoming the king or queen of Westeros and sitting upon its imposing Iron Throne involves quite a bit of Machiavellian manoeuvring, a dragon or three, Continue Reading
Everyone’s talking about Games of Thrones, even the cast of Silicon Valley
It’s time honoured way to spend your work day, well the bits where you’re doing your level best to not do actual work anyway. And it seems that not even Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, and Thomas Middleditch from HBO’s break out comedy hit of 2014, Silicon Valley, are immune, decked Continue Reading
Outlander: The Reckoning (S1, E9 review)
After waiting far longer than any Scotland-based historical fiction-loving TV fan with a burning predilection for time travel, kilts and romance of the bodice-ripping kind should legitimately have to wait, Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon, came roaring back atop a Highland steed in “The Reckoning”, in which you’d Continue Reading
Exciting news Kermie! “It’s time to meet the Muppets” again on TV!
It’s a universally-acknowledged fact that you can never spend too much time with Jim Henson’s greatest, most-beloved creations, the Muppets. And by “universal” I mean, of course that I long ago decided that I cannot have too much of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf the Dog, Gonzo, and of course Continue Reading
Relive the first 4 seasons of The Walking Dead through the wonders of this 8b-it video game recreation
These are dark days for The Walking Dead fans. Not only do we have to survive without our regular weekly doses of undead mayhem and the best and worse of the apocalyptic human condition until October, even the new companion series, set in Los Angeles that begins pre-apocalypse, doesn’t Continue Reading