It’s mid 1971, and in a lounge-room in Grafton, NSW, Australia, a wide-eyed five year old is sitting cross legged in front of his family’s TV set early one morning, unable to take his eyes off the program on the screen before him. He had only just been introduced a Continue Reading
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Trailers, teasers and posters galore: Minions, Chappie, Into the Woods
MINIONS SNAPSHOT The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters–from T. rex to Napoleon–the Minions find themselves without someone Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Self Help” (S5, E5 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … and NOT A LOT OF HOPE * Hope in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, much like the faces, arms, legs and bodies of the undead themselves when hit by a fire truck’s water cannon – something which actually happened in “Self Help”, Continue Reading
Let’s hear it for season 4 of Girls! (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT Last season left off with Hannah (Lena Dunham) struggling to make her life in New York work both professionally and romantically with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Adam. Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) learned that she was three credits short of graduating and attempted to get Ray back, Marnie (Allison Williams) Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Slabtown” (S5, E4 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … and ROTTERS and THE CREEPIEST CARNIVAL RIDE EVER * Another episode of The Walking Dead, another group of deluded individuals thinking they are are rightly re-forming society in their own image, the last bastions of humanity in a barbarically murderous world (at least that’s what Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Walking Dead cast as pancakes even a zombie might crave
Ask Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Maggie (Lauren Cohen) or even scared-of-his-own-quivering shadow Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) – being stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is hungry business! Why even the zombies themselves can’t get enough to eat what with the remaining human Continue Reading
Pixelated phantoms: My 5 favourite sitcom Halloween episodes
Ah Halloween – what a frightfully funny time it is! Well actually no, it isn’t in general what with scary monsters, wandering zombies, haunted houses and so much candy it’s entirely possible your head will explode from the incredible sugar rush before you get home from trick or treating – Continue Reading
Halloween Pop Art: Fun and easy pop culture costumes for the big night
Halloween is a ridiculous amount of time. That is pretty much incontestable, what with all the dressing up, the partying, the candy … and the candy … oh did I mention the candy? But it can be kind of tough to come up with a cool, original one-of-a-kind idea Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Four Walls and a Roof” (S5, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD* “We need each other, we can get through all of this together.” This impassioned quote from Glenn (Steven Yeun), who found himself not once but twice playing the in-the-nick-of-time intercessor between Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), who is aggressively OCD when it comes to getting to good old Washington Continue Reading
The Comeback is coming back!
It was Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd, who famously remarked “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small” as stinging retort to Joe Gillis’ observation that she wasn’t quite as famous as she used to be. It’s a sentiment that Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) would likely embrace with Continue Reading