Who hasn’t wondered, at some point or another, whether life wouldn’t be a whole lot simpler if it was simply us, an empty street and all the cheesecake we could eat? (Perhaps that last thing is just me but you get the overall point right?) Sandwiched like sardines in Continue Reading
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Saturday morning cartoons: Cattanooga Cats
I have always been a contrary pop culture consumer. That is to say, without any deliberate intent to swim against the tide, I have often ended up liking programs or characters or songs that never really captured the full attention of the zeitgeist with the result that my top Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Spend (S5, E14 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AND REVOLVING DOORS O’ DEATH AND SATAN DRESSED AS GABRIEL … I MEAN, AN ANGEL OF LIGHT … AH, SAME SAME * All my greatest fears were realised in this brutal-as-a-summer-day-is-long episode of The Walking Dead. No, not my fears of what might happen to Continue Reading
There be dragons: Game of Thrones season 5 poster, trailers + clips
Hail dear friends it is time go back to the fair lands of Westeros once more! There is something about George R. R. Martin’s sprawling saga of power, death and dragons that inspires those kinds of faux-Shakespearian introduction lines, which is set to become even more epic in the upcoming Continue Reading
Like a leaf on the wind: Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion’s bold new Con Man adventure
SNAPSHOT Con Man centers around the post-show life of Wray Nerely, (Tudyk) the pilot and co-star of SPECTRUM, a sci-fi series which was cancelled before it’s time and eventually became a cult classic beloved by fans. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Fillion) starred in the series and has gone Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Forget (S5, E13 review)
*THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD … AND REALLY A REALLY SCARY, FRIGHTENINGLY NASTY … CAROL* Once upon a time there were three survivors of the zombie apocalypse that found themselves living in the Alexandria Safe Zone … And they were each assigned duties in their safe new world … Continue Reading
Smiling through a nuclear war? Yep, that’s how HAPPYish they are (full trailer + new poster)
SNAPSHOT A dark examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place. Thom Payne is 42, his new bosses at work are half his age and they say the words ‘digital’ and ‘social’ far too often. Continue Reading
Welcome to the Age of Yahoo! Community debuts new season 6 trailer and poster
Community‘s long fought for #sixseasonsandamovie great resurrection, long heralded, ballyhooed and celebrated, is about to be make its hilariously offbeat presence felt. Debuting on March 17, 2015 on its new home Yahoo Screen! – Yahoo! swept in as a white knight when NBC finally cancelled the show after prevaricating for Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Remember (S5, E12 review)
*THERE BE SPOILERS AND DEADHEADS AND ROAMERS AND WALKERS OH MY! AHEAD* Ladies and gentleman of the zombie apocalypse, welcome to The Walking Dead Guide to Moving in the Age of the Undead! Let’s be honest – moving after the end of the world is never easy. There are Continue Reading
We be trippin’ to the latest trailer for Wayward Pines, the most “perfect” town on earth
SNAPSHOT Secret Service Agent ETHAN BURKE (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon, Crash, City of Ghosts) drives to the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, searching for two missing federal agents. Ethan is the logical choice for the mission. He’s one of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle Continue Reading