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
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#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
Zombies are made of plastic bricks: The Walking Dead’s S5 trailer gets LEGO-ised
It feels like an undead eternity since we last saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his fellow zombie apocalypse survivors locked away in a rail car by suspected cannibals at the not-so-safe sanctuary of Terminus at the end of season 4 (which apparently had an altogether more badass ending in Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! The 10 new shows I am looking forward to watching
Rejoice those of you with too little TV to watch, there is an avalanche of fresh programming on its way! For the rest of us, who are happily close to drowning in the rich seas of the new golden age of TV, and are watching more programs that we Continue Reading
RIP Robin Williams: From Mork and Mindy to Dead Poets Society and beyond, you will be remembered
Robin Williams was an amazing man. Bursting into my childhood in the late 1970s via the colourful sitcom, Mork and Mindy (1978-1982), in which he starred as a manic, over the top alien with a penchant for eggs, learning about his new home Earth, and the eventual love of Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Saturday Night Massacre (S4, E7 review)
* Here there be beamers, mechs, skitters and … SPOILERS* You may not have realised it, what with all the death, destruction and alien invasion going on, but all throughout the harder, darker, grittier, passive/aggressive Lexi-filled season 5, Falling Skies has been apocalypse flirting with us. With a monstrous Continue Reading
First impressions: The Strain
If you were to judge Guillermo del Toro’s first venture into the currently burgeoning world of television, The Strain (based on the 2009 trilogy of horror novels he penned with Chuck Hogan) on its constituent building blocks alone, you could’ve forgiven for wondering how the show has attracted the Continue Reading