SNAPSHOTDoug Jones is an actor mostly known for portraying inhuman creatures, usually via heavy make-up and/or visual effects in films and television series. He’s also the go-to colossus in the movies of monster king Guillermo del Toro, first appearing in Mimic and later portraying both the Faun and the Pale Continue Reading
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No, no, no, no, no … Farewell Trevor Peacock (Vicar of Dibley) who made the negative sound so gloriously, happily positive #RIP
For a man who did nothing but make me laugh, Trevor Peacock, who is best known for playing Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, has certainly left me very sad today. In a cast of superbly talented actors who brought their gloriously well created characters to life with comic Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Previously On” and “The Series Finale” (E1, S8 & S9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WANDA KNOWS IT — AND SHE FEELS FINE? NOT SO MUCH MAYBE … This is a tale of two WandaVision episodes. In the first, episode 8, “Previously On”, the title of which was a promotional staple of week-to-week episodic TV, Continue Reading
Time for half a zombie: Fear the Walking Dead season 6b trailer
“Death. Destruction. Decay. It’s inevitable.” What a cheery way to begin a trailer for the second half of season six of Fear the Walking Dead which, let’s face it, has been getting darker and darker, rather fittingly for a show set in the zombie apocalypse, since the day it first Continue Reading
Are you taking it seriously … or not? Thoughts on Bonding (season 2)
Figuring out who you are in life is rarely as clear cut and straightforward as we’d like to be. While we dream of moving majestically forward, held head high and a fist full of highly-achieveable dreams in our hands, friends and family happily by our sides and bluebirds, because of Continue Reading
Hello Popular Space Show: The Next Generation! How goes your sci-fi parodying?
SNAPSHOTEvery episode of Popular Space Show: The Next Generation. I can’t believe I shaved my head for this. (synopsis via YouTube) Watching science fiction, even the very best exponents of the genre, does involve a considerable suspension of belief. After all, apart from rovers landing on Mars and probes hurtling Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Breaking the Fourth Wall” (S1, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ALL KINDS OF VERY COOL REVEALS (THE FULL IMPORT OF WHICH DEPENDS ON AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF MARVEL COMIC BOOK LORE) … Holy hiding in plain sight, WandaVision! Yes, that is an unholy melding of DC and Marvel for which this reviewer will likely suffer death Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “On a Very Special Episode …” and “All-New Halloween Spooktacular! ” (S1, E5 and E6)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A TV HOMAGE SOAKED IN GRIEF … Would you like to see how powerful grief can be? How it can completely alter the entirety of the landscape of your life, pluck you from good and reason into a maelstrom of senseless and atypical decision-making and the Continue Reading
Love, hope and expectations: Thoughts on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 2)
Part of the inestimable joy of watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in all its hyper-exuberant, dazzlingly gorgeous, cleverly quirky glory is simply sitting back and let the vibrantly witty wordplay wash over you like some sort of heavenly linguistic balm. Every character is brilliantly smart and funny, every word they Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “Now in Color” and “We Interrupt This Program” (S1, E 3 and 4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTORTED REALITY OF GRIEF … Even in the first two classic sitcom-styled episodes of WandaVision, one of the best shows to hit any screen in quite some time, it became patently obvious that all was not well in the suburban idyllic world of Westview, New Continue Reading