Back in 1979, Rupert Holmes released a song called “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” which mused that all you really needed was a shared love of Piña Coladas, getting caught in the rain, and making love in the dunes at midnight to effectively get away from the banality of the Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: “Pope Breaks Bad” (S5, E4 review)
*THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … SPOILERS I TELL YOU! AND A BALD POPE (NO, NOT THAT ONE)* Let’s us all agree here and now shall we that Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) would make a lousy therapist? Possessed of the emotional tact of a phalanx of tanks rolling across a Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hatchlings” (S5, E3 review)
*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
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