Silicon Valley, created by the luminously-talented Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space), is a very clever sitcom. A satire of the technological hub centred around San Jose, California, and the startups it incubates so effectively, it is witty, perceptive, peopled by flawed but irresistible characters and according to Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: Conquer (S5, E16 review)
*THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CRYING PRIEST, RANDOM WALKERS AND AN UNDEAD PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “W”… So a funny thing happened to me on the way from the review of season 5 penultimate episode “Try” to its movie-length Continue Reading
Team Leda vs. Team Castor: Who will triumph in Orphan Black’s third season? (posters + sneak peek)
Orphan Black is one very clever show. It has managed to do what many shows before it have failed to do, mixing together edge-of-your-seat action, strikingly well-defined characters – largely thanks to the uber-talented Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany who, to date at least, has played almost all the characters in the Continue Reading
So what would Friends be like if it got a modern hipster reboot? Why THIS actually
Ah the ’90s and early Noughties … such a simple, uncomplicated time when all any of the Friends had to worry about was whether the couch would be free at Central Perk (it always was, of course), whether Ross was with Rachel or they were on a break (getting technical Continue Reading
We cannot leave the magic: Fraggle Rock is going to be a movie! With Joseph Gordon-Levitt!
Jim Henson is deservedly regarded as one of the towering creative talents of the 20th century, a man who, gifted with a limitless imagination, an almost magical ability for imbuing each and every one of his creations with poignant humanity, and a delightful sense of the whimsical and the absurd, gave us an Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Try (S5, E15 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MUCH GRIEVING, MANY PORKY PIES AND A SUBSTANTIAL LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL* “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and …” Such a simple child’s ditty, one that celebrates the happy joys of heading somewhere special on Continue Reading
Where are you? Thunderbirds are GO! (new trailer)
I try to never be a captive of nostalgia. Spend some time with it yes, sup some tea, eat a biscuit, remember the good old days but never, ever be lured into the false sense of security that things were better way back when. Different certainly, special undoubtedly, but Continue Reading
First impressions: The Last Man on Earth
Who hasn’t wondered, at some point or another, whether life wouldn’t be a whole lot simpler if it was simply us, an empty street and all the cheesecake we could eat? (Perhaps that last thing is just me but you get the overall point right?) Sandwiched like sardines in Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Cattanooga Cats
I have always been a contrary pop culture consumer. That is to say, without any deliberate intent to swim against the tide, I have often ended up liking programs or characters or songs that never really captured the full attention of the zeitgeist with the result that my top Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Spend (S5, E14 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AND REVOLVING DOORS O’ DEATH AND SATAN DRESSED AS GABRIEL … I MEAN, AN ANGEL OF LIGHT … AH, SAME SAME * All my greatest fears were realised in this brutal-as-a-summer-day-is-long episode of The Walking Dead. No, not my fears of what might happen to Continue Reading