SNAPSHOT“‘There’s a bit of a time-jump since the season two cliffhanger. Otis is back at school but he’s got different things on his plate. He’s grown up a bit and become slightly more sassy. It’s been fun to portray his newfound charisma. Don’t worry, though, he’s still tragically awkward too.’ Continue Reading
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A grand whodunnit through time and space: Thoughts on Loki
Character is king, queen, lord, lady and any other top of the heap appellation you might dream up when it comes to storytelling. You can have your bangs and your booms, your breathtaking action sequences with the dial up as high as it’ll go and your full speed ahead, pedal Continue Reading
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World … or is it? The sobering teaser trailer for Y: The Last Man
SNAPSHOTBased on DC Comics’ acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new Continue Reading
What dreams may not come: Mr Corman explores the tension between aspiration and reality
SNAPSHOTFrom writer, director, executive producer, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, Don Jon), “Mr. Corman” follows the days and nights of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. Things haven’t been going his way lately – his lifelong dream of a career in music Continue Reading
The best endings are Atypical: Thoughts on the final season
Figuring out who you are and what you want to do are two of the big asks when you’re edging ever closer to adulthood. With school drawing to a close, and the grown-up world beckoning, a tremendous amount of pressure comes to bear on young adults to get life sorted, Continue Reading
It’s time to join the gang at Superstore for “Christmas Eve” #ChristmasInJuly
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right? Right? I mean, how can it not be with all the lights and the merriment and the joy and “winter barn displays” (aka nativity scenes) and such? And yet in “Christmas Eve”, the season 3 episode of Superstore which goes Continue Reading
Thoughts on The Kominsky Method: The final season
Chuck Lorre, sitcom creator extraordinaire is not normally known for his subtlety. His sitcoms are designed to be brash, obvious and funny and if ratings success is any guide – he is the creative force behind Dharma & Greg, Mom, and The Big Bang Theory, among many others – he Continue Reading
In the middle of COVID lockdown, I put 5 new pop culture ornaments on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
It’s not looking like the most festive of Julys at the moment. A combination of complacency and Australian Federal Government ineptitude with quarantining returning overseas travellers and the vaccine rollout mean Sydney, where I live, is deep in the midst of a fortnight lockdown, that may yet get extended by Continue Reading
TV cartoon fun! Say hello to Jellystone! and Chip and Dale
I am a big kid at heart. One of the most obvious manifestations of my childlike-ness is my love of animation, which began all the way back when, at it does for so many people, when I was a kid. I have enormously fond memories of school holidays or Saturday Continue Reading
Dance! Sing! And fall in love in Schmigadoon!
SNAPSHOTDescribed as a parody of iconic Golden Age musicals, Schmigadoon! centers around a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship as they accidentally discover a magical town living in a 1940s musical. They then learn that they can’t leave until they find “true love.” The six-episode season Continue Reading