I know someone, somewhere rather sagely once noted that all good things must come to an end, and while I appreciate the logical sentiment embodied in this, let’s be fair, rather obvious observation (no points for originality there buddy) and its universal truth, it still saddens me to think Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: Till Death Us Do Part (S4, E9 review)
* Duck! Beamers above you and spoilers ahead of you if you dare* There was a lot of gazing at the moon in this week’s episode of Falling Skies, and in marked contrast to the title which seemed to promise the sort of wholesale death and destruction we’ve become accustomed Continue Reading
Daleks are Danish: Doctor Who S8 trailer gets some LEGO lovin’
The long wait – unless you ARE a Time Lord in which case you have already zipped forward, watched the entire season and posted reviews on all relevant sites (and possibly saved the world several times over) – for season 8 of Doctor Who is almost over! In just Continue Reading
Checking in with The Strain: “Runaways” (S1, E5 review)
I will be the first to admit, and here I paraphrase Winnie the Pooh (yes Winnie the Pooh) rather loosely, that I am a horror-watching bear of little courage. While I have acclimated to the zombies of The Walking Dead, and even the frenetically-fast undead of Helix do not Continue Reading
The perils of binge-watching TV: EW brings you a timely PSA
We’ve all seen it happen. Successful friends and contented family members, maybe even ourselves, reduced to unhygienic, mindless, jibber-jabbering shadows of our former TV viewing selves by improper binge watching of TV shows. There’s nothing wrong with binge watching per se of course – everyone is doing it. But as a host Continue Reading
First impressions: Outlander (“Sassenach”, S1, E1)
I believe it was that great pop sage Huey Lewis who once marvelled in song at the curious, saddening, maddening, life-saving “Power of Love”. But I doubt even he could have predicted that love, powerful though it might be, could span centuries, fuel two lifetimes lived simultaneously by one Continue Reading
#CommunityLivesOn: Season 6 teaser trailer
#CommunityLivesOn That’s the inspirational hashtag being used by the Plucky Sitcom That Could’s new home at Yahoo Screen, who stepped in to keep the show alive after NBC cancelled it at the end of it’s fifth season and other would-be saviours/suitors like Hulu passed on taking the show onto their Continue Reading
Jump out of the TARDIS! Doctor Who gets animated
You may have thought watching Tom Baker or David Tennant or Matt Smith in action as the 4th, 10th and 11th Doctors respectively that Doctor Who was already plenty animated enough. And while it’s true that fighting the Cybermen, the Daleks, The Silence and the Weeping Angels is a fairly active pursuit, talented Continue Reading
Falling Skies: A Thing With Feathers (S4, E8 review)
* There could be some spoilers contained within and Volm and Espheni and maybe even a Skitter-ised Partridge in a Pear Tree* Taking a line from an Emily Dickinson poem that muses on the fragile nature of hope, as both its title and inspiration, this week’s episode of Falling Continue Reading
Rap like an Animal: The Muppets want to know “So What’cha Want”?
If The Muppets, in all their glorious sweet hearted hilarious lunacy have taught us anything, apart from the fact that a good aggro drum soul is de rigeur for any song (thank you Animal), it’s that there is nothing they cannot do. NOTHING. They have performed in an old Continue Reading