The Muppets are on Instagram … And drinking Lipton Tea to relax … And most excitingly of all, their movie Muppets Most Wanted is almost in theatres! It’s almost too many The Muppets for just day except that you can never have too much of Kermit and Miss Piggy, Continue Reading
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Community meets The Walking Dead in the best opening credits ever
If ever there was a marriage made in pop culture heaven, it’s the bringing together of Community and The Walking Dead, two shows with rabidly passionate fan bases and zeitgeist-defining takes on the world. Community is particularly suited to the apocalyptic credits gifted to it by Youtube user atsp88, Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Claimed” (S4, E11)
In this week’s instalment of Fractured Apocalyptic Tales, with everyone’s favourite prison group still scattered to the walker-infested four winds, Michonne got more than a touch of the Pharrell Williams, Carl fancied himself a quizmaster, Rick dived under beds and off awnings, and Glenn got stubborn as a mule Continue Reading
The end is nigh: Warehouse 13 unveils first trailer for fifth and final season
Warehouse 13 is one of those rare shows that I fell in love almost from the word go. There was something about it’s distinctly postmodern mix of the supernatural, the mythological and the downright fantastical, and a cast of passionate but thoroughly whimsical characters that grabbed me minutes into Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Inmates” (S4, E10)
*Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading
Flintstones, meet the Scientifically Accurate Flintstones!
I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, who premiered on US TV on September 30, 1966, and loved, even at a young age, its juxtaposition of modern day concerns with stone age people. It was a clever, insightful sitcom in a cartoon, and while you knew that cavemen didn’t actually Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones
Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading
The Muppets rock final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show
If there was any further proof that there isn’t anything The Muppets can’t do, and utterly entertain while doing it, I present to you their appearance on the final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show. Fresh from an imaginative Superbowl campaign promoting the Toyota Highlander, that made great use Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “After” (S4, E9 review)
If there is one thing you walk from the premiere episode of the second half of The Walking Dead‘s fourth season with, it is a sense of complete and utter aloneness. From the impressive, almost awe-inspiringly aerial shot of the still burning prison, now swarming with aimless walkers, watched Continue Reading
Community: “Geothermal Escapism” (S5, E5)
The fifth episode in Community‘s steadily improving fifth season, “Geothermal Escapism”, was a bittersweet episode. While it saw the show return to the anarchic, rapid-fire pop culture-referencing form which characterised its iconic paintball episodes, “Modern Warfare” (E1, S23), “A Fistful of Paintballs” and “A Few Paintballs More” (S2, E23/E24), Continue Reading