We’ve all done it at one time or another – pictured what it would be like to be the last people alive on earth, freed from the cold, dead hand of work and stultifying routine, left alone to sleep, read, eat, wander, the world ours, and ours alone, for Continue Reading
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Groot, Hodor and Chewbacca walk into a cantina … (LEGO short)
It ain’t easy being a sidekick. All of the work, very little of the glory and usually none of the romance or the glamour. How much worse is it then if you’re also, to everyone else’s ears at least, hopelessly mis-understandable, perpetually misinterpreted and yes always denied snacks or Continue Reading
The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes: Walking Dead mid-season 5 teaser poster
Way back at the end of November 2014 when The Walking Dead departed our screens for a leisurely two month mid-season break from the televised apocalypse, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of beleaguered followers were wondering quite why it was they were continuing to put one foot Continue Reading
Dinosaurs in Pawnee! The hilarious mash-up of Jurassic World and Parks and Recreation
There’s no denying that Chris Pratt’s star is in the ascendancy. After many years of playing loveable goofball Andy on Parks and Recreation, and adding his own piece of just-played-right comic genius to what is in anyone’s books a shining ensemble cast, he’s now finding increasing success in Hollywood, Continue Reading
Thunderbirds are go … again!
One of the fondest pop culture memories of my childhood, of which there are many – even then I was juggling my time between books, TV shows, movies and music so what maketh the boy very much maketh the man – was getting up just before 6am when we Continue Reading
Can’t wait to go Looking some more: Season 2 trailer
It is eminently possible for life to be a many-splendoured thing. But if you’re Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agustín (Frankie J. Álvarez) or Dom (Murray Bartlett), three friends living in San Francisco, juggling careers and busy social lives with what often feels like the endless search for Mr. Right, it can Continue Reading
Re-watching the big glowing box: The 10 TV shows I loved most in 2014
Another year, another PVR up in smoke trying to cope with the insane numbers of programs I ask it to keep track of and record. Seriously it didn’t go up in smoke but it came close, damn close, with a multiplicity of new and old shows competing for my Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with pop culture icons
When I bought my first Christmas tree as an adult in 1992 – I was technically an adult for about a decade before that but it took some money and a mindset change before I got around to acquiring my own tree; for years, in my mind at least, the only Continue Reading
Timely Christmas message: Sir Ian McKellen and Cookie Monster learn how to resist
If ever there was a word with which we all need to be familiar at this time of the year, it’s “Resist”. But like Cookie Monster, who doesn’t quite get the concept, the idea of it evades many of us as we saunter off for another bathtub of eggnog, Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I watched “The Grimm Who Stole Christmas”
* HO HO HO! THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW! ** “I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug.” Christmas is without a doubt a most magical time of Continue Reading