SNAPSHOT Set in the 1980s, with the color palate to match, [Rob] Lowe plays Dazzle Novak, a not-so-bright undercover cop who is always in search of a good time (when in fact he should be hunting down the bad guys). Banks co-stars as Novak’s hard-ass boss, while [Kate] Mara Continue Reading
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No one told you it was going to be this way: Happy 20th anniversary to everybody’s favourite Friends!
Happy 20th anniversary Friends! Yes, everyone, you are officially allowed to feel ridiculously, insanely old as you realise – rather quickly unfortunately thanks to the totally unambiguous declarative sentence that opens this anniversary tribute – that the first episode of Friends, a seminal sitcom that defined what life was life Continue Reading
Moone Boy: The comfort and power of an imaginary friend
“Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Me neither. But there you go.” And with that pithy, funny, narrative-encapsulating line, Moone Boy, set in late 1980s Ireland and starring Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Girls, Family Tree) as said imaginary Continue Reading
Thank you for being an incarcerated friend: Orange is the New Black meets The Golden Girls
There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way. But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life Continue Reading
The Big Bang Theory returns with S8! (See what happens behind the scenes)
The Big Bang Theory is back! After three humour-less Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah-Fowler (Mayim Bialik) free months, weeks and weeks where Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) weren’t staring dreamily into each other’s eyes, and nanoseconds without number without Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj Continue Reading
A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away: Cookie Monster stars in Star Wars parody “Star S’mores”
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away…Princess Parfaita was taken prisoner by the evil Galactic Empire and had to be saved by a group of unlikely heroes including the young Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie. One of the Continue Reading
First impressions: Z Nation (S1, E1 “Puppies and Kittens”)
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my dispiriting task to inform you that we have now reached Peak Zombie. Yes, much like Peak Oil, where all the oil that can be found, has been found and it’s only downhill from here, zombies have finally reach the summit of pop culture Continue Reading
The travails and joys of being Jane the Virgin
SNAPSHOT Set in Miami, the series will detail the surprising and unforeseen events that take place in the life of Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), a hard-working, religious young Latina woman whose family tradition and a vow to save her virginity until her marriage to [her] detective [boyfriend] Mike (Brett Dier) Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The imaginatively dark and quirky claymation art of Evil Corp
Ever since I clapped eyes on the whimsical claymation twosome Wallace and Gromit, I have been enamoured of an artform that requires intense creativity, patience and an eye for detail. You can’t just whip up these figures on a whim – they need a whole lot of time to Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! 6 MORE returning shows I can’t wait to see again
Yes, yes I know what you’re thinking … and tweeting … and Facebook status updating. You have already reminded of six great shows I should be watching and now you want me to take on six more? To which I reply, with a calmness that is only present before Continue Reading