SNAPSHOT After 15 years of living in a cult, the unbreakable and wide-eyed Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, The Office) is rescued along with three other women, causing a national sensation that culminates with an appearance on the Today show. Before getting back on the bus to Indiana, however, Kimmy decides Continue Reading
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Selina swaps VPOTUS for POTUS in HBO’s teaser trailer for Veep season 4
Where we left Veep at the end of season 3 The episode, and season, conclude with no joy and little meaningful resolution, which is exactly how Veep, a show that’s at its best when its characters’ situations are at their most dire, should end. Selina’s struggling in the primaries. Continue Reading
5 things I love about this year’s sleeper hit Jane the Virgin
* Some minor spoilers contained within (though limited as much as possible) * On January 2015, a hitherto little-known actress by the name of Gina Rodriguez stepped onto the stage at the Beverly Hilton to receive her Golden Globes award for Best Performance by an actress in a television Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Doctors Who of Dr Seuss
I was sorely tempted to start off this post with my very own Seuss-ian rhyme but you and I both know that I nor aany mortal soul could ever do the great man justice. So I will simply say that DeviantArt artist, DrFaustusAU, who specialises in traditional art, drawings, Continue Reading
Grab your Fedoras! We’re off into syfy’s The Expanse
“We made it so far out into the darkness; why couldn’t we have brought more light?” SNAPSHOT A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain together in a Continue Reading
Could Will Forte be The Last Man on Earth?
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
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