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
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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
Weekend Pop Art #6: “Games of Thrones” goes to Springfield
Another fantastically imaginative postmodern TV show mash-up? Yes please! Talented illustrator and artist Adrien Noterdaem who goes by the name of ADN-z on deviantart.com has married the breathless, bloody drama of George R. R. Martin’s Games of Thrones, the current water cooler TV show to end all water cooler shows, to Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Be Silent and Come Out” (season 3, episode 6)
After last week’s rather lacklustre filler episode, “Search and Recover” aka “Tom and Pope Take a Meaningful Walk in the Woods / The 2nd Mass. Go On a Meaningful Horse Ride” – seriously when you have a finite 10 episode season to play with, who can afford a filler Continue Reading
Season 4 of “Miranda”? Such fun but a long way off alas
According to the good people at digital spy.com.au, Miranda Hart, start of the hit British sitcom Miranda, and recently voted as the number choice should Steve Moffatt decide the new Doctor Who should be a woman, is one very busy lady. So busy in fact that season 4 of Continue Reading
CHOMP! Silliest movie of the year award goes to “Sharknado”
SNAPSHOT When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air. Right, so you’re probably thinking it’s waaaay too early to be awarding the title of Continue Reading