*There be aliens and spoilers aplenty ahead!* Falling Skies may have belatedly embraced its inner apocalyptic child this season but that didn’t stop it from coming over all Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) this week in 4th episode “Evolve or Die”. Or should that be all Rolfe the messenger Continue Reading
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First impressions: Extant
There’s a whole lot of creepy going on in Extant … and for the most part it’s all quite well executed. Which is a pleasant surprise after the dramatically nonsensical debacle that was, and is Extant‘s summer sister series on CBS, Under the Dome, which inexplicably continues to attract viewers Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Exodus” (S4, E3 review)
There was a touch of the Steve McQueens about Falling Skies this week, even down to the motorcycle that Tom Mason (Noah Wylie), Distractor of Skitters and Rubber Man Who Can Fall From Great Heights and Live, used once again, this time sans the Ghost headdress, to distract the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: The Wacky Races (Hanna-Barbera)
I grew up in a far simpler age when television audiences outside the major cities of Australia only had access to two TV channels – one belonging to national publicly-funded broadcaster the ABC, and the other to a commercial company who usually took a mix of programs from the Continue Reading
Just dance! The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Remixed by Eurovisionaer
It’s been 2 months since the large ship-shaped stage at Copenhagen’s B&W-Hallerne fell silent and dark, the representatives of each of the 37 competing countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 sang their last (for that week at least) and the enthusiastic audience members went home, counting down the Continue Reading
A whole lotta zombies coming our way: The Walking Dead season 5 preview (videos)
If you are of sound mind and memory, you will recall that Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus) and many of the others, save for Carol, Tyreese and baby Judith who were yet to arrive at the “sanctuary” of Terminus, finished up season 4 locked tight inside a rail Continue Reading
“Hello Caesar, Its Gollum”: Andy Serkis imagines a conversation between the characters from LOTR and Planet of the Apes on Conan
There is no doubt about it. Andy Serkis, who has provided the speech and mannerisms for a host of motion-capture characters in movie franchises like The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and The Planet of the Apes, is an amazingly talented actor. While you very rarely see Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “The Eye” (S4, E2 review)
* Watch out there are spoilers! And aliens … don’t forget the aliens * After re-imagining, re-booting and all but completely re-tooling itself in the season 4 opener “Ghost in the Machine”, Falling Skies went on in episode 2 “The Eye” with all the gritty, dirty (literally in the Continue Reading
Cool. Cool cool cool – Community renewed for a sixth season!
The dream of #sixseasonsandamovie lives! After sailing far too close to oblivion for any fan’s tastes, thanks to Hulu’s last minute decision not to carry Community as the June 30 deadline approached when all of the cancelled show’s actors were to be released from their contracts, the series, set at Continue Reading
He’s here … and he’s gone! New teaser trailer for Doctor Who season 8
Now THIS is a teaser trailer! It doesn’t so much intrigue, although naturally of course it is because we are insatiably curious creatures – cats have nothing on us, even the time travelling ones – and will ponder and dissect anything we are given about a show we love, Continue Reading