After revving things up considerably last week, after a few episodes where Falling Skies almost spluttered to a narrative stop, this week’s episode “Road to Xibalba” (a reference to the name of the underworld in K’iche’ Maya mythology which roughly translates as a “place of fear) put the pedal to Continue Reading
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The decay of a colossal wreck: The quietly ominous new trailer for “Breaking Bad”
SNAPSHOT: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Review of “Strange Brew” (S3, E8)
Today, paraphrasing the narrative of Jesus’ birth like nobody’s business, I bring you tidings of great joy. For unto us today is born, or rather re-born, Falling Skies‘ storytelling mojo! Granted they did use a well worn narrative trope to regain their joie de vivre – the hero trapped Continue Reading
Comic-Con TV trailer-palooza: Arrow, Doctor Who, True Blood, Family Guy, Husbands + more
As always, Comic-con, which has just wrapped in San Diego (18 – 21 July), provided an embarrassment of pop culture riches for everyone who was there, and thanks to almost instant transmission via social media, even to those of us who couldn’t make it. There were panels galore, the usual Continue Reading
Who’s got the nod? Dissecting the nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards
Bring me sackcloth and ashes! * Let there be wailing and gnashing of teeth! ** And may you successfully duck as fingers point every which way while cries of “J’accuse” echo all around. Yes another awards show has announced to the world who its favoured children are, in this Continue Reading
The twisted strands of HELIX: new show debuts on syfy in 2014
SNAPSHOT When a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, they quickly find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. (source: beyondhollywood.com) Continue Reading
What are you risking it for? The Walking Dead to get “crazier” in season 4
It if wasn’t clear already, what with homicidal Messiah-complex leaders like The Governor (David Morrissey), packs of amoral flesh-craving walkers, and destructive internal power plays, the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead is a dangerous place to be. And if this trailer, released at Comic-Con on July 19 Continue Reading
A pleasing plethora of movie and TV posters: Almost Human, Banshee, Godzilla, Thor: Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Yes we have posters! So many posters and it’s time to share them with you. Yes you – watch and be visually tantalised … First up is the latest poster for one of J. J. Abram’s new TV season offerings, Almost Human, which is set 35 years into the Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Review of “The Pickett Line” (S3, E7)
* Aye, there be spoilers ahead me hearties * (I am using a pirate voice because frankly it makes as much sense as much of the writing on Falling Skies of late) Welcome ladies and gentleman, and stray flower-loving Volm, to another episode of Days of the Masons, a show Continue Reading
“Defiance”: Review of season 1 finale, ‘Everything is Broken’
Embodying pretty much everything you could want in an explosive, emotionally-rich, fingernail-embedded in armchair finale, “Everything is Broken” was a fitting end to season 1 of syfy’s groundbreaking new show Defiance (which operates in conjunction with a Massively Multiplayer Online game, or MMO, of the same name). Central to Continue Reading