*UNDEAD SPOILERS AHEAD* DING! DING! DING! Welcome ladies and gentleman’s to this week’s The Walking Dead Battle o’ the Wills! In the white corner, we have Farmer/Fighter/father Rick (Andrew Lincoln), 5′ 10″ and 170 lbs of simmering contemplation and halting conversation. And in the red corner, awash in blood Continue Reading
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Don’t get your DNA in a knot – we have a new HELIX promo!
“DON’T LET THEM TAKE YOU” You only have to mention that Ronald D. Moore is involved in a show for me to sit up and take notice immediately. That’s pretty much what happened when I first encountered news of his new show, Helix, which is set to premiere on Continue Reading
You shall not sit! The Simpsons hilarious epic The Hobbit-inspired couch gag
The Simpsons, now entering their 25th season on Fox, may not be quite the toast of the zeitgeist as they once were, but the show has by no means surrendered its claim to wickedly funny and inspired pop culture parodies. In fact, judging by the latest epic couch gag, Continue Reading
Falling Skies meets Harry Potter (kind of) in season 4 (trailer)
Falling Skies, now under new showrunner David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) may not be back on our screens with season 4 till mid-2014, but production is already under way on the next (hopefully) exciting instalment in the apocalyptic alien invasion series. While details are scant so far, we already know Continue Reading
The Waltons reunion: My heart swells with joy once again
One of the shows I remember watching as a child, and being quite moved by week after week, was The Waltons (1972-1981), a show based on Earl Hamners Jr’s book Spencer’s Mountain, which centred on a family struggling to get by in rural Virginia during the Depression and the Continue Reading
Poster me this #4: Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Girls, Haven, August: Osage County
I have written long and often about my love of really clever, visually striking movie and TV promotional artwork. Not everything produced in the art department salt mines of the movie studios and Tv networks is worth featuring of course but a great deal of it is, since let’s Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #3: Review of Grimm S3 premiere “The Ungrateful Dead”
… and we’re RACING! Barely pausing for breath, and picking up just a few minutes before season 2 ended with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) racing through the container yard, a pack of snarling, ultra-aggressive zombie-like people hot on their heels, Grimm kicked Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #2: My 5 favourite hilarious and/or scary sitcom episodes
It’s not that often that “BOO!” is followed by thigh-slapping gales of laughter and raucous guffaws – unless of course someone thought to turn True Blood or The Walking Dead into sitcoms (it can only be a matter of time surely) in which case laugh away as you have Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #1: Funny or Die’s pop culture fright night
You think werewolves, and skeletons and goblins and vampires (oh my!) are truly scary? You don’t know scary! Wait ’til you’ve seen Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch from Funny or Die, a “comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions” (wikipedia) go through Continue Reading
The Walking Dead lives on for season 5!
It will hardly come as a shock to anyone familiar with the ongoing, ever-building successful of AMC’s highest rating scripted series The Walking Dead that it has been renewed for a fifth season. With the premiere episode for season 4 ratings its decayed body parts off – according to Continue Reading