TV

  Generally speaking when we’re shown a dystopian view of future Earth, there’s something innately recognisable about the people and the places they inhabit. Sure they may be a whole world away from anything we know but there are enough touchstones for us to see ourselves, albeit a far murkier, Continue Reading

  Beloved pop culture properties like Bugs Bunny, Star Wars and Scooby Doo are beloved for a very good reason – there’s a lot to like about them. In the case of Scooby Doo, one of Hanna-Barbera’s most enduring set of characters, the gang from the Mystery Van, whose best Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT ANIMALS focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth’s least-habitable environment: New York City. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own. Continue Reading

  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

  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

  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

  “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

  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