No sign of an air date yet for the unexpected if shortened fifth season of NBC’s now all-Dan Harmon, all the time Community, which commenced filming on August 19, and which will only feature Danny Glover’s character Troy Barnes, one half of the iconic Troy and Abed (Danny Pudi) Continue Reading
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Poster me this! New promo art for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thor: The Dark World, Homeland (season 3), Gravity, All Is Lost
It would abundantly obvious by now that I am a man in love with movie posters (as well as my partner, caramel cheesecakes and Vancouver Canada, none of which are germane to the topic at hand right now alas). And it’s easy to understand why this colourful, often imaginative Continue Reading
Once Upon a Time … there was a season 3 trailer of the fairytale mashup show
And they all lived happily ever after … It’s supposed to be the perfect ending to every fairytale, the just reward for seeing a righteous quest to its end, smiting the dragon, killing the wicked witch, rescuing the damsel in distress and so on. And yet the good citizens Continue Reading
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we … AGAIN!
The Wombles are back! Or at least they will be in 2015. The UK’s Channel 5 has announced that it will be broadcasting 52 eleven-minute CGI-created episodes about everyone’s favourite litter-gathering denizens of Wimbledon Common on their Milkshake channel which is targeted at the pre-schooler set. While the production Continue Reading
“Warehouse 13”: Review of season 4 finale “The Truth Hurts”
“THIS IS MY HO– USE NOW!” With that thundering statement, Paracelsus (Anthony Head), Warehouse 13‘s latest 500 year old mad scientists uber-baddy, takes control of the world’s weirdest major holding place of strange and dangerous artifacts – OK the world’s only holding major place of strange and dangerous artifacts Continue Reading
Break out the Boom Boom! “Girls” season 3 teaser trailer debuts
Though it may seem like an eon away – one TV viewing month is equal to at least 6-8 actual months in my estimation – the third season of HBO’s Girls, which is set to bow in January 2014 will be here before we know it. In anticipation of Continue Reading
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??
It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading
A terrific togetherness of TV trailers: Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Dracula, Big School
We’re barely a month away from all sorts of new season TV goodness and with thoughts of evil fairy tale queens, re-imagined 19th century fictional detectives and bright, sunshiney high school singers dancing in my heads, it’s entirely the right time to gather them all together in one big Continue Reading
Animate me! Despicable Me’s minions go Hollywood, future Disney and Zombie Scooby Doo
Animated movies have become quite the thing of late. With the really good ones combining a mixture of intelligent writing, winning characters, and delightful pop culture knowingness, they now appeal to a broad range of demographics, and not just the children of old. It all probably started with movies like Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Brazil” (s3, ep10)
After all the long horse rides in the country, ruminations on life, the universe (pretty much literally in an alien apocalypse) and everything (usually the Masons), and lethargic inactivity of late (with the exception of the penultimate season 3 episode “Road to Xibalba” which bristled with more energy than Continue Reading