*SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND LAST DITCH OVERLORDS AHEAD* There’s nothing like a walk in the countryside is there? All that fresh, bracing air, the inspiring views, the sense that you are away from everyone and everything … well, that is, unless, of course you’re Rage Tom Continue Reading
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Crossovers! When TV show worlds collide
You can never get too much of a good thing right? Of course not! It’s an ethos that has fuelled many an all-night party, a weekend-long TV watching binge on Netflix and crossover episodes, where “two or more TV shows [are revealed] to exist in the same fictional universe” (according Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hunger Pains” (S5, E2 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND SKITTERS … AND MORE SKITTERS AHEAD * So there goes dinner … Starving and insanely short on good old edibles after an unexpected suicide Skitter attack, one of many waves of seemingly feral Skitter attacks to plague the 2nd Mass. Continue Reading
The many TV children of Orphan Black #SDCC
It goes without saying (but you know I ‘m going to say it anyway) that Orphan Black is a freakishly amazingly good, nay GREAT show. Coming complete with a gripping conspiracy-laced narrative that intelligently dissects the modern moral and ethical conundrum of genetic science, and the mesmerisingly good performances Continue Reading
“Because Convention Man doesn’t sound as cool”: Con Man’s gloriously funny first trailer
SNAPSHOT Con Man follows the comic convention adventures of fandom-favorite (but pigeonholed and a bit washed up) Wray Nerely, played by Tudyk, and his best friend Jack Moore (Fillion), who of course went on to super stardom. They starred in the one-season-and-done fictional sci-fi series “Spectrum” (just pronounce that Continue Reading
Zombies, zombies everywhere: Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead S6 drop full-length trailers
We are about to overrun by even more zombies than normal, people. Not content with walkers/rotters rambling blighted streets in their hundreds – the opening episode of The Walking Dead season 6 will reportedly feature 654 zombies all doing their undead shuffling thing at once – we will now get Continue Reading
“I’m the Doctor and I save people!” Doctor Who S9 trailer debuts at #SDCC
The Doctor is back, or forward, or he never really never left at all – you know how time travel is – in the full length Doctor Who trailer just released at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). It’s full to bursting with slivers of action and characters we have Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Scooby Doo and the gang dress up down through the decades
Ever since I clasped eyes on the Scooby Doo Where Are You mysteries in the ’70s, I have been firmly of the opinion that there is a timeless quality to the cartoons. Even now I can happily sit down and watch Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Velma and Daphne do their Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Find Your Warrior” (S5, E1 review)
Be warned aliens of the universe! (And those very annoyingly still on Earth; yes that means you Espheni, half-hearted Volm and whoever the hell you new guys are.) Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) is mad. Very, very mad. So mad in fact that at the encouraging hand of the mysterious new Continue Reading
“Now let’s get out of here and destroy the whole universe!” Rick and Morty return for a second crazy fun season
SNAPSHOT Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) is still living with his daughter Beth’s (Sarah Chalke) family and causing more trouble than ever. This season the rest of the family, his son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell), grand-daughter Summer (Spencer Grammer) and grand-son Morty (Roiland) are dragged into Rick’s intergalactic adventures, as he Continue Reading