Gilmore Girls is, hands down, one of my favourite ever TV series. It’s not simply the storybook setting of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the engaging mother-daughter pairing of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), the fast-paced, witty, wordy (in the best possible sense) dialogue stuffed full of insightful, deftly-placed Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: “Thank You” (S6, E3 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MORE ZOMBIES THAN YOU SHELTER ON A DUMPSTER FROM * If there’s one thing we’ve learned in six seasons of The Walking Dead, and most particularly in last week’s gory attack on Alexandria, it’s that death and the apocalypse go together like inseparable Continue Reading
Run away! The aliens are coming to get you in Hunters
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) andNatalie 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 Continue Reading
Stay between the lines: Games of Thrones and Outlander colouring books are on their way
In case you missed it, adult colouring books are IN. With a host of benefits ranging from switching creative gears and the increased productivity that results to simply getting in touch with your inner child, lots of very grown up people including someone you probably know, are getting their Continue Reading
The French undead are back: The Returned/Les Revenants season 2 (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT “The second season picks up six months after the deceased disappeared into the mountains with Simon, Camille, her mother, Claire, Julie and the mysterious youngster Victor. Since then, nothing has been heard of them. Now, Adèle is about to give birth to Simon’s child, part of the town Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “JSS” (S6, E2 review)
* SPOILERS … AND WAR AND PEACE AND CASSEROLES AHEAD * “JSS” was the episode where all the blinders came off for pretty much everyone. The good people of Alexandria, those left behind anyway while Rick (Andrew Lincoln) led the more capable fighting members off to steer the zombie Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “First Time Again” (S6, E1 review)
* SPOILERS … AND A MOTHER LOAD OF WALKERS ALL WALKING YOR WAY AHEAD * “One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.” (Jean Rostand) No prizes for guessing which side of the equation the walkers, and there are an Continue Reading
All of Matt Damon’s films in just 8 minutes? James Corden (The Late Late Show) can help you with that!
Can there be such a thing as too much Matt Damon? No, of course not – what a crazy thing to even ask! But should you not have a million hours in the day, and short of some Doctor Who-esque jiggery-pokery with timey-wimey, it’s unlikely you do, and Continue Reading
Catch up on The Walking Dead season 5 with this clever video recap where every walker knows your name
“They want to go where Walkers won’t eat their brains.” One of the appealing things about Cheers, which ran for 11 years from 1982-1993 and centred on a group of regulars at a Boston bar, was that everybody knew your name. You belonged, and had to a place to rest Continue Reading
Poster me this! The Flash (season 2), Sisters, Zootopia
I am a poster addict, a lover of visual promotion to an insanely devoted degree. There’s something so evocative about the messages conveyed by beautifully-crafted posters, and yes their sheer beauty. I could look at them all day long but of course that would defeat the purpose of the posters Continue Reading