Karma. What goes around, comes around. Everything old is new again. Even though their intent may differ, one eternal idea underlies all of these words or phrases – the idea that if you wait around long enough, and in today’s hyper-fast recycling world, that isn’t too long at all Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Sleepy Hollow expands its unique universe with new comic book series
Sleepy Hollow (Fox)is an utterly unique show. A one-of-a-kind blend of Biblical and occult mythology, historical intrigue, good old police procedural and what EW rightly calls a “fish out of water comedy”, it has a fashioned for itself a narrative world so unusually detailed, comprehensively explored and richly told that it Continue Reading
Goodbye Miranda #suchNOTfun
Bonjour peepsickles! “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” Lifted from Heather Small’s song “Proud” (2000) and oft-quoted (or sung, really) in Miranda Hart’s hilarious sitcom Miranda by her best friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland), it’s a phrase used by the two best friends to inspire them Continue Reading
Unleash the Battlesaurs: Toy Story That Time Forgot (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT After a post-Christmas play date, the Toy Story gang finds themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. If the gang hopes to return to Bonnie’s room, they’ll have to rely on Trixie the triceratops (Kristen Schaal). (synopsis Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Strangers” (S4, E2 review)
*Hey they’re spoilers ahead … and walkers … and foul, damaged humanity … but you knew that already right?* Well, no surprises for guessing that once again humanity came off second-best in the PR stakes to the walking dead. You have to wonder how that can be don’t you, Continue Reading
The Guardians of the Galaxy have never looked more animated!
Looking back, it seems incredible that anyone could have doubted that The Guardians of the Galaxy would become the movie success of the year, sweeping all before it as it powers towards a likely worldwide $800 million box office haul. But as with anything that steps outside the box of Continue Reading
Thanks for the animation memories: Where are all those ’80s cartoon characters now?
It’s hard for any public figure in the midst of their glory days to imagine a time when they won’t be adored, feted or valued beyond measure, when the spotlight will move on to younger, more beautiful souls and they will be left alone in the dark, railing against the Continue Reading
First impressions: Gotham (S1, E1 “Pilot” / E2 “Selina Kyle”)
The world is an irredeemably wicked and violent place from which little to no good can ever come. Grimly cynical yes but that seems to be the prevailing worldview of almost everyone in Gotham, a city ruled over by a witches brew of organised crime and institutionalised corruption where Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “No Sanctuary” (S5, E1 review)
“You’re either the butchers or the cattle.” That soberingly bleak assessment of the existential options left open for humanity in the morally scorched earth environs of the zombie apocalypse pretty much summed up the thematic underpinning for The Walking Dead‘s unrelentingly fierce, action-packed, flaming walkers and cannibals (hurrah!) opening episode of season 5, Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: Friends go minimal and look brilliantly quotable doing it
Now this, THIS is how you celebrate the 20th anniversary of Friends first going to air! Allison Hoover, a “Miami Ad School art student and Friends superfan”, recently profiled on Mashable by Andrea Romano, decided to honour the show she loves with not one but a multitude of evocatively-colourful, beautifully Continue Reading