* SPOILERS AHEAD … and ROTTERS and THE CREEPIEST CARNIVAL RIDE EVER * Another episode of The Walking Dead, another group of deluded individuals thinking they are are rightly re-forming society in their own image, the last bastions of humanity in a barbarically murderous world (at least that’s what Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: The Walking Dead cast as pancakes even a zombie might crave
Ask Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Maggie (Lauren Cohen) or even scared-of-his-own-quivering shadow Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) – being stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is hungry business! Why even the zombies themselves can’t get enough to eat what with the remaining human Continue Reading
Pixelated phantoms: My 5 favourite sitcom Halloween episodes
Ah Halloween – what a frightfully funny time it is! Well actually no, it isn’t in general what with scary monsters, wandering zombies, haunted houses and so much candy it’s entirely possible your head will explode from the incredible sugar rush before you get home from trick or treating – Continue Reading
Halloween Pop Art: Fun and easy pop culture costumes for the big night
Halloween is a ridiculous amount of time. That is pretty much incontestable, what with all the dressing up, the partying, the candy … and the candy … oh did I mention the candy? But it can be kind of tough to come up with a cool, original one-of-a-kind idea Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Four Walls and a Roof” (S5, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD* “We need each other, we can get through all of this together.” This impassioned quote from Glenn (Steven Yeun), who found himself not once but twice playing the in-the-nick-of-time intercessor between Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), who is aggressively OCD when it comes to getting to good old Washington Continue Reading
The Comeback is coming back!
It was Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd, who famously remarked “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small” as stinging retort to Joe Gillis’ observation that she wasn’t quite as famous as she used to be. It’s a sentiment that Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) would likely embrace with Continue Reading
Everything old is new again: Wonder Woman, Lost in Space, and Big return
Karma. What goes around, comes around. Everything old is new again. Even though their intent may differ, one eternal idea underlies all of these words or phrases – the idea that if you wait around long enough, and in today’s hyper-fast recycling world, that isn’t too long at all Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Sleepy Hollow expands its unique universe with new comic book series
Sleepy Hollow (Fox)is an utterly unique show. A one-of-a-kind blend of Biblical and occult mythology, historical intrigue, good old police procedural and what EW rightly calls a “fish out of water comedy”, it has a fashioned for itself a narrative world so unusually detailed, comprehensively explored and richly told that it Continue Reading
Goodbye Miranda #suchNOTfun
Bonjour peepsickles! “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” Lifted from Heather Small’s song “Proud” (2000) and oft-quoted (or sung, really) in Miranda Hart’s hilarious sitcom Miranda by her best friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland), it’s a phrase used by the two best friends to inspire them Continue Reading
Unleash the Battlesaurs: Toy Story That Time Forgot (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT After a post-Christmas play date, the Toy Story gang finds themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. If the gang hopes to return to Bonnie’s room, they’ll have to rely on Trixie the triceratops (Kristen Schaal). (synopsis Continue Reading