And the winner is … SWEDEN! After what can only be described as one of the most tense voting sessions of any Eurovision Song Contest I’ve ever witnessed – at one point, first place was an effective three way tie between Russia, Italy and Sweden, with Russia edging ever Continue Reading
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“This is the time for overkill”: Falling Skies goes all out in its new season 5 trailer
If Earth wasn’t already overcrowded, what with humanity, the “fishhead” Espheni and the Volm all duking it out for control of our pretty blue planet (or what’s left of it anyway), then it’s about to resemble a crowded commuter train at peak hour when a brand new “beautiful” race, the Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like a Murray Christmas … yes already!
SNAPSHOT Murray plays himself as the host of a holiday variety show, but a snowstorm may prevent anyone from showing up, leaving him to mope around … [that is until] a star-filled cast including Murray, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones Continue Reading
First impressions: Wayward Pines
*SOME SPOOKY SPOILERS AHEAD* Tree changers of the world beware. Any romanticised ideas you might have about leaving the big bad city behind for a simpler, idyllic life amongst the trees and towering snowcapped mountains will soon be put to rest by Fox’s new series Wayward Pines. Based on Continue Reading
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt meet Mad Max Fury Road … You’re welcome
Hollywood, and the entertainment industry in general, has a generally lamentable record when it comes to representing “women’s complex and interesting lives” as GrrlScientist described in a 2010 The Guardian article, in their films and TV shows. More often than not they fail The Bechdel Test, which originated with Alison Bechdel’s Continue Reading
22 is the new age 80: Netflix redefines “old” in the trailer for Between
SNAPSHOT Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 22 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend Continue Reading
RIP Forever: 5 wonderful things I loved about the show
I am heartbroken once again. Yes, in a pattern that repeats itself over and over when I fall headlong in love with a TV series, and not enough other people do, another TV I had come to really, really love, in contravention of all expectations (I thought I was Continue Reading
“Do some goddamn magic!” Syfy debuts the trailer for The Magicians
SNAPSHOT Based upon Grossman’s books— the first of which was published in 2009 — The Magicians stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and Continue Reading
Are Rick and Morty Rap Gods? In Benjamin Robert’s hands you f**king bet they are!
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
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