“C’mon it’s Christmas! At the North Pole! Who ya gonna call?” I am guessing not the Ghostbusters team, despite the insistent bouncy hum off the iconic theme song in my head, but rather one Santa Claus, played with swagger and brio and just the right amount of Santa-ness – Continue Reading
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On the 2nd day of Christmas … I watched “Its Beginning to Stink a Lot Like Christmas” (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Poor Christine “Old Christine” Campbell. Try as she might, and frankly she really doesn’t try all that hard – particularly not if there’s wine or sex with the Christmas tree guy to be had instead – she can’t actually manage to actually lead the sort of life she thinks Continue Reading
Parks and Recreation season 7 has a start date … and sadly a finish one too
Some wise person once remarked, no doubt in an advanced state of rationalisation wherein they tried to convince themselves that something truly awful coming to pass was in fact a blessing in disguise, that all good things must come to end. I am not quite sure why that necessarily Continue Reading
First impressions: The Flash
Well viewers, looks like the streets have just got that little bit safer. If you live in a fictitious city that is, not far from another fictitious city of course, one with lax planning regulations that allows particle accelerators to set up on picturesque riverbanks, smack bang in the Continue Reading
Sings some songs of Yuletide parody: Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones pay musical tribute to the holidays
Turducken for one, anyone? For sure, but only if you’ll “Drink with me/ ’cause I hate my family” … It seems like a fair swap, especially in the midst of the crazy frenetic, brain-melting busyness of the festive season when all the stresses of life seem to be distilled Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Coda” (S5, E8 mid-season finale review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SCHOOL FULL OF APPLE-LESS ZOMBIES … SO MUCH FOR THE TEACHER’S FRUIT BREAK * You have to hand it to creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple, and the entire The Walking Dead team, in this case writer Angela Kang and director Ernest Dickerson. With Continue Reading
“That’s so gorgant!” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s first 2015 Golden Globes promo
Yes “gorgant” (pron. gorj-ant) is a word! Especially if the originators of said word, which naturally denotes, class, style and awards show fabulousness are none other than comedy legends, Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), who are back for their third (and sadly, final), no doubt Continue Reading
Stephen Byrne’s animated Firefly short: A galaxy of emotions in a scintilla of time
In our modern blockbuster age, we have been led to believe that for anything to truly affect us, it must be bigger, better, epic! So epic in fact that cities, nay continents must fall, all but but a fraction of the characters we care for must die, and the Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Crossed” (S5, E7 review)
If Shakespeare had made it through to the zombie apocalypse, then there’s every chance he would written something along these lines to describe the tone and feel of the penultimate mid-season eight episode, “Crossed”: Once more unto the Atlanta breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up Continue Reading
Make it hilarious! Star Trek: Next Generation blooper reel proves you can hear laughter in space
It’s serious business going boldly where no one has gone before. Much as Picard and his hardworking, seriously intense crew would like to spend all their time having a good chuckle in Ten Forward with their shipmates or throwing down a synthale and share some laughs with sexy Andorians on Risa, they’re Continue Reading