THE MANDALORIAN SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MYSTIC JEDI STUFF AND WHOLLY UN-MYSTIC HUMAN STUFF TOO … The tearing sound you hear in “Chapter 14: The Tragedy” in the uniformly excellent second season of The Mandalorian is Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) heart absolutely and completely breaking. Granted, you can’t see his Continue Reading
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Life, and Christmas, got you down? Even Santa his down days according to this funny, lovely ad
SNAPSHOTA humorous advertisement directed by Matias & Matias for the Norwegian Postal Service features an angry Julenissen (Santa Claus) who tells his therapist that he feels become outdated and finds himself wishing for those bygone eras in which he was welcomed inside every home across the land. He lauds a Continue Reading
The top ten dares of Dash & Lily ranked for your festive viewing pleasure
SNAPSHOTWhich Dash & Lily dare is the most daring? Once Lily (Midori Francis) challenges Dash (Austin Abrams) to a simple dare via a red notebook, he retaliates with a dare of his own, sparking a series of escalating challenges. Which one was #1? Watch to find out! (synopsis via YouTube Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “The Deepest Cut” / “In This Life” (S1, E9 & E 10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … SECRETS REVEALED AND SACRIFICES MADE … Do you believe in happy endings? You know, the kind — the prince or princess get their opposite half, what looked lost is found and everyone rides off into the sunset to live happily and uncomplicatedly ever after … swoon and Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “Unification III” (S3, E7 review) / The Mandalorian – “Chapter 13: The Jedi” (S2, E5 review)
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SURPRISE PROMOTION AND RETURN OF THE VULCANS … SORT OF … Oh. how the future surprises us! Not only do they have matter that moulds and adapts itself to your unique physiology and transporters that beam you where you, and you alone, Continue Reading
Gravity defying stop-motion festiveness: Alien Xmas (review)
One of the most comforting parts of Christmas, a season dedicated to making us feel like everything is gloriously and perfectly right with the world, is settling down to watch the slew of new and old Christmas specials, TV shows and movies at our disposal. Most people will have favourites Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Damage From the Inside” (S6, E7 review) + The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “The Sky is a Graveyard” (S1, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SURVIVOR WEIRDNESS ON A THOROUGHLY CREEPY SCALE … Getting stuck in the middle of the zombie apocalypse *and* losing everyone you love would go a long way to sending you way off the scales of workable sanity, right? Right. Just ask Ed (Raphael Sbarge) who has Continue Reading
The Mandalorian – “Chapter 12: “The Siege” (S2, E4 review) / Star Trek: Discovery – “Scavengers” (S3, E6 review)
THE MANDALORIAN SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ROLLICKING GOOD ADVENTURE AND DARK THINGS LURKING IN THE SHADOWS … Now this is a classic Star Wars piece of storytelling! Not that The Mandalorian isn’t universally excellent, because it most certainly is, honouring existing Star Wars lore while forging ahead to create new Continue Reading
The best Christmas present of all – The Vicar of Dibley is coming back to our screens
2020 has been beyond a doubt the kind of year that calls out for some cleverly-written, very funny comfort food. Thankfully all those calls into the desperate ether have been answered with some very welcome Geraldine Granger-centric news, according the the good folk at Bleeding Cool: “The BBC’s classic comedy Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “Truth or Dare” (S1, E7 review) + Fear the Walking Dead: “Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg” (S6, E6 review)
THE WALKING DEAD: THE WORLD BEYOND SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AN ART GALLERY IN A TRUCK AND LYING FOR GOOD REASONS … Who doesn’t love a light and unburdened soul? Let’s face it, most of us will choose spilling the truth, if only to make ourselves feel better and perhaps Continue Reading