*Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading
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Poster me this: Toy Story That Time Forgot, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
I, along with a great many people, never seem to be able to make it, for a whole host of reasons, to the greatest of all pop culture nirvanas, San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), which by the time this post goes live, will be in full, crowded, technicolour swing. But absence from Continue Reading
Everyone is already dead: Twelve Monkeys TV series debuts its first trailer
Way back in 1995, an intriguing sci-fi film y the name of Twelve Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis in prime badass mode, dropped into cinemas, one of the first of a wave of apocalyptically-disposed storytelling that twenty years hence has become a veritable flood. In this particular vision of the Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Evolve or Die” (S4, E4 review)
*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
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