SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) and Natalie 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 group of ruthless terrorists – shadowy Continue Reading
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First impressions: The Expanse
Depending on where you stand on the sci-fi spectrum, humanity is either bound for a glorious Star Trek-ian future of gleaming cities, equity for all and peace throughout the galaxy, or it’s doomed for a gritty Blade Runner-esque world where cities lies in filthy ruin, climate change has run Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #2: Teachers, Baskets, 11.22.63, The Path, the 100
Oh ye who think that you might actually have some time to sleep, eat and smell the roses once you’re done with the five programs in Tons o’ Trailers #1 – abandon all hope of doing anything but watching a host of great programs on TV … because here Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #1: Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead, The Get Down
“So much TV, so little time!” could well be the cry of lament emanating from many a TV viewer’s lips in this much-remarked upon new Golden Age of Television. Or some, like Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone are calling it, “the age of Glut TV” where there’s “Too much Continue Reading
Comic to TV then back again: One fan’s brilliant The Walking Dead art
I love our postmodern age where one creative moment begets another begs another until they all merge into one satisfying complimentary whole. It’s often a case of art imitating art imitating art – forget about life itself: who wants that? – to glorious, pop culture-glorifying effect. The latest person Continue Reading
Future Zeitgeist: 3 pop culture resolutions for 2016
Another new year! Thousands of new movies to watch. Hundreds of TV shows to watch. Billions of books to read (wait, is that only me?). And an insane amount of music waiting to be downloaded and listened to over the next 366 days. So what to prioritise? What to Continue Reading
Re-watching the big glowing box: The 10 TV shows I loved most in 2015
I am a man caught between two screens – a big cinematic one and a much smaller but ever-increasingly influential and powerful one. The tug of war is intense but I find myself drawn again and again to the powerful, funny, clever, engaging stories television tells, especially in what Continue Reading
On holidays in space … wish you were here: iambit’s Postcards From Space take you out of this world
Ah space, the final vacation frontier. Who wouldn’t want to get away to all those wide open spaces, those endless starlit nights, those plants teeming with fun and adventure. (For the purposes of this giddily happy intergalactic holiday post, let’s pretend that things like Alien xenomorphs and Imperial Stromtroopers aren’t Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I hung 5 pop culture ornaments on my tree
It will not surprise you to learn that I am a pop culture addict. It’s most obviously evident in this blog, but my great love for TV and movies, (and of course books and music) and the characters that inhabit them makes its presence felt in all sorts of Continue Reading
On 7th day of Christmas … I re-watched classic Vicar of Dibley ep “The Christmas Lunch Incident”
When you’re in the service of others, as is Vicar Geraldine Granger (Dawn French), the “babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom”, saying “No” even extremely nicely, can be a difficult undertaking. After all, your parishioners seeing you as their vicar, regardless of how many of them there Continue Reading