This post first appeared on inclassicstyle.com Summer is not kind to TV-watchers, my friends … not kind at all. In fact, it’s downright cruel (which reminds me of a quite apropos mid tempo Bananarama song from my youth but I digress). For while others are chowing down on hotdogs Continue Reading
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Hilariously hapless in love: Stephen Merchant’s Hello Ladies (trailer)
Finding love can be a challenge at the best of times. But even more so when you’re Stuart, a single guy at the heart of HBO’s new eight part series Hello Ladies. He’s a lonely, insecure Englishman labouring under the delusion that the fantasy life he imagines himself leading Continue Reading
Arrrr! Hit the high seas with Black Sails on Talk Like a Pirate Day
It’s still International Talk Like a Pirate Day in some parts of the world me hearties and so it’s still entirely fitting that I post this wonderful tribute to this most unique of days (a high holiday for adherents of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster I’m told) Continue Reading
TV review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S1, pilot episode)
It is a rare thing indeed when a new sitcom comes out straight out of the box fully formed, quips ready, characters fleshed out, and a believable situation in which they actually can quip and relate without fear of laugh track hypocrisy, in place and good to go. But Continue Reading
To heebie-jeebies and beyond! Pixar’s Toy Story of Terror debuts ahead of Halloween
SNAPSHOT What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that Continue Reading
TV review: Sleepy Hollow (S1, pilot episode)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts Continue Reading
Do zombies speak French? Mais oui! The Returned debuts 31 October on Sundance
To be fair, the undead in this particularly original riff on the ascendant zombie genre are not mindless flesh-eating drones at all. Rather they are the dead of one particular small French village who walk back into their homes, and the lives of family and friends, blissfully unaware they Continue Reading
Talking about a Revolution season 2 poster … and some promos
One of the shows that completely came out of nowhere last season, for me at least, was NBC’s contribution to the apocalypse genre, Revolution. From a slow, rather unimpressive start, where it appeared the show would fail to capitalise on its wildly original premise, and which had me reaching Continue Reading
Back where they belong: Mr Peabody and Sherman set to jump back into the zietgeist in 2014
One of the things I remember most fondly from my childhood was getting up just before 6 a.m. (yes voluntarily!) when we were staying at my grandparents’ place in Sydney where they had three commercial TV channels to choose from – it seems laughable now in this digital age Continue Reading
Off we go to Yonderland … remember to pack your talking stick!
One of the things I have loved most about British comedy from the time I was a wee lad back in the 70s is its propensity for whimsy, satire, and just plain silliness. It’s a hard kind of comedy to pull off. Too much campness and it just looks Continue Reading