* 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
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“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
Queens of the Stone Age and Fred Armisen of “Portlandia” unite!
I am a huge fan of Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live, Portlandia), a gifted comedian who is able to inhabit all sorts of guises with aplomb and bring characters to life with believability and a straight face (hard when they’re as funny as they usually are). One of those characters Continue Reading
Can you go back? Re-watching “CHiPs” (1977-1983)
SNAPSHOT The show was created by Rick Rosner, and starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his strait-laced partner, Officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker. With Ponch the more trouble-prone of the pair, and Jon generally the more level-headed one trying to keep Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Search and Recover” (season 3, episode 5)
“Search and Recover” confirmed everything I have ever thought about camping in the great outdoors. It’s damp and uncomfortable, you’ll probably have to build a fire, the food will be questionable (frogs anyone?), there’s a high likelihood you’ll injure yourself, and you might get suck with fellow campers that’ll Continue Reading
The science of being a Muppet
Have you ever wondered what The Muppets would look like as a periodic table that groups all manner of Jim Henson’s much loved creations together? No? Well neither had I. But thank the gods of insanely original imagination that artist Mike Boon (aka Mike BaBoon) had, and did something Continue Reading