Now here’s a marriage made in cutting-edge pop culture heaven. Rick and Morty, the gleefully subversive animation sensation birthed in the twisted-in-all-the-best-ways minds of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, whose second season is due to land in the US summer on Adult Swim, and Eminem, one of rap’s enfant Continue Reading
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Songs for all seasons: Watch Peter Dinklage + Coldplay in special Game of Thrones the Musical clip
*THERE ARE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD … BORNE ON SINGING DRAGONS WINGS* What the world needs now is … love, sweet love? No citizens of Westeros, and further abroad, what the world needs RIGHT NOW is Game of Thrones the Musical … or at least one song from Continue Reading
Outlander: Wentworth Prison (S1, E15 review)
*SPOILERS AND RAW BRUTISH INHUMANITY AND YES ENDURING LOVE INCOMING* There has never been a scintilla of doubt that the producers of Outlander are committed to showing life in the often mercilessly brutish world of eighteenth century Scotland in its all confronting, intensely dehumanising horror. This unwavering commitment to Continue Reading
They’re all out to get you in USA network’s intriguing new show Mr Robot
SNAPSHOT USA Network presents MR. ROBOT, a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, The Pacific), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, The Adderall Diaries) of Continue Reading
The Muppets are back on TV! It’s time to light the … well you know …
SNAPSHOT The Muppets return to prime time with a contemporary, documentary-style show that, for the first time ever, will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, break-ups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires; a more adult Muppet show, for kids Continue Reading
Haunted by the future and the past: Minority Report (TV series) new trailer
SNAPSHOT Minority Report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, Continue Reading
Is that smoke in the forest? The Walking Dead’s Daryl investigates in this LEGO stop motion animated short
I am increasingly of the opinion that every single TV show, movie, book trailer and music clip – hey I am not playing favourites here – should be required by law to produce a LEGO version of itself. Yes, every single last one of them. “Is that not already Continue Reading
Outlander: The Search (S1, E14 review)
*SPOILERS … AND REDCOATS AND A DISTINCT LACK OF TWITTER OR TEXTING AHEAD* It’s been clear ever since Claire Randall Fraser (Catriona Balfe) stumbled through the stones at Craigh an Dun back in episode one of the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s sprawling historical novels Outlander, that the show was more Continue Reading
Just like me, they (don’t) long to be me, close to you: The trippy togetherness of Sense8 (trailer)
SNAPSHOT One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other’s lives, each other’s secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as “Sensates.” (official synopsis via Blastr) There’s no escaping we now Continue Reading
Can you bear The Strain a second time? (Season 2 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT A plane lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport with the lights off and the doors sealed. CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), Dr. Nora Martinez, and their team are sent to investigate. On board they find 206 corpses (with no mark of blood loss) and four Continue Reading