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
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The Walking Dead: The Distance (S5, E11 review)
*** THERE BE SPOILERS … AND ROAMERS/WALKERS/ROTTERS AND LOVE SWEET LOVE AHEAD *** Heaven, I’m in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek (as sung by Frank Continue Reading
Big Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Orange Pants): Sesame Street’s delightful parody of Oscar winner Birdman
Birdman is a remarkably brilliant movie. And Sesame Street, 45 years old and going strong, is remarkably well-versed in the art of both educating children and parodying occupiers of the pop culture zeitgeist. Together they have created the remarkably delightful parody video of Big Birdman, that plays off one of the Continue Reading
“You are my home now”: Jamie pours out his heart to Claire in Outlander’s swoon-worthy new trailer
SNAPSHOT he “Outlander” series spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history, and adventure in one epic tale. It follows Claire Randall as she navigates the hidden dangers of 18th century Scotland, an unknown world where her freedom and very life are at risk. When she is forced to Continue Reading
Play Ariana Grande or eat a carrot with Funny or Die’s Billy Eichner, Michelle Obama and Big Bird
Despite their prevalence on early evening TV network schedules, I can frankly take or leave quiz shows. Usually leave, but if you tied me to a chair in a head hold that forced to look straight ahead at a TV screen and only at the TV screen with the Continue Reading
“I’m not your property … or your toy … or …”: Orphan Black drops intense season 3 teaser trailers
With just two months until BBC America sends in the clones all over again (pun quite clearly intended and happily revelled in), the New World offshoot of the UK’s national broadcaster has unveiled, one-by-one via Instagram, a series of dramatically-intense, defiant new teaser trailers profiling each of the female Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Them (S5, E10 review)
I believe it was that great musical philosopher Annie who once opined in song that “You’re never fully dressed without a smile.” In which case, in this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, mysteriously titled “Them” (there are a couple of contenders), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Daryl (Norman Continue Reading
You want 20 TV theme songs in two minutes? Daniel Koren can help you with that!
I stand impressed. It is one thing to create a medley mashup of TV theme songs with each segueing reasonably neatly into the other and make them sound like they kind of sort of belong together. But talented New York musician Daniel Koren has managed to not just weave Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The beauty of the crystallised cast of The Walking Dead
Life isn’t easy in an apocalyptic environment. What with megalomaniacal, sociopathic Governors, endless herds of walkers, cannibals, deceitful fake scientists and the constant threat of starvation/injury/rabid squirrels (there is such a thing and yes you should be concerned, thank you), it doesn’t take much, as we’ve seen often among Continue Reading
My Fandom Valentine: Find out what your favourite pop culture characters think about love sweet love
You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading