Helix, the latest show from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), is increasingly looking like another chillingly salutary lesson in what happens when humanity gets delusions of grandeur and overextends itself, with unforeseen devastating consequences the nightmarish result. What starts out a routine operation to a remote privately-run arctic research facility Continue Reading
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A multiplicity of trailers for Orphan Black season 2 (2014)
SEASON 2 SNAPSHOT Season two of the series hits the ground running with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day, Parks and Recreation) in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler, Carrie). Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone, Rachel (Maslany), dividing and imperiling all Continue Reading
Girls (and guys) just wanna have a watch of the Girls season 3 trailer
They’re back! And as blissfully unaware, emotionally screwed up and hilarious as ever. Yes, Hannah (Lena Dunham, who is also the creator and executive producer of the show), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet) are back for a third serving of twenty-something angst and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Dead Weight” (S4, E7 review)
*DIRTY, NASTY, LEADER-CULLING SPOILERS AHEAD* If you, like me, bought last episode’s version of the Governor (David Morrissey), all boxed up in his shiny, new family man guise, complete with all new added tenderness and endless kindness or your money back, you may want to ask for a refund Continue Reading
Happy birthday to … 5 of my favourite fictional characters (#2)
I am a madly sentimental guy. If it’s an important event like say my birthday (which it is today) or Christmas or a family or friend’s birthday, I will go all out to make sure the day is as perfect as possible with chronic over-catering, balloons, accessories or trees Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Review of Day of the Doctor
*SPOILERS, SWEET, SPOILERS!* There are many days in which it is very good to be a lifelong fan and companion of Doctor Who, the mysterious, enigmatic, currently bow-tie loving hitherto last of the Time Lords but today … well, today was a very good day indeed. For today Continue Reading
Chow down on Sesame Street’s spot on Hunger Games parody
Sesame Street have always had their hands on the pulse of pop culture, delivering up timely parodies of the shows, movies and songs of the moment, that are both charmingly irreverent while also containing a valuable teaching lesson of some sort to their impressionable young demographic. It’s hard to Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #10: The 50 year history of Doctor Who as an imaginative tapestry
I absolutely anyone who dares to think outside the box in any sphere. And Bill Mudron, who hasn’t so much as stepped outside the artistic box as he has left the plant, shredded all the cardboard-making technology and burned the factory down, has created one of the most original Continue Reading
The Walking Dead plays Monopoly … and goes back to the future or is that the past?
Way back in the dim, dark days of my youth – which actually weren’t that dark actually since we did have, you know, fire and such – I spent many a happy hour playing Monopoly with my family, usually during end of year summer holidays when we’d decamp to Continue Reading
5 things I love about The Crazy Ones
I know it isn’t fashionable to say in some quarters but I really like The Crazy Ones. Nay, LOVE it. It’s one of my favourite shows of the new fall season on US TV, full to the brim with whippet smart writing, finely tuned comic performances and a situation Continue Reading