Ah the ’80s! Gaudy, colourful, pastel-hued fun – hypwercolour T-shirts, shoulder pads, Duran Duran … and the rise and rise of the mall. How big a deal were malls in the 1980s? They were BIG and just how big can be seen in the new teaser trailer for Stranger Continue Reading
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Colony: “Disposable Heroes” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SUBTERFUGE, DOUBLE-DEALING AND UNDERHANDED EVERYTHING! If the alien apocalypse wasn’t such a serious business, and we’re talking “serious” with a capital “S” and some highly luminous but grim neon, you could well argue that everyone is having a hood of a time trying to outfox Continue Reading
There’s a new Doctor Who in town … and she looks amazing! (Season 11 poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The series will introduce Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series will also introduce Bradley Walsh, Continue Reading
Ready to be Insecure all over again? Sure you are … (trailers)
SNAPSHOT Creator Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl) stars as Issa Dee, who struggles to navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles along with her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji). (synopsis via HBO) Good god I love Issa Rae. Specifically, her role in HBO’s Continue Reading
Christmas in July #3: Watched The Flying Nun’s “Wailing in a Winter Wonderland”
One of the great delights of The Flying Nun (1967-1970) was, and shall always be, how wonderfully sweet Sister Bertille (played by Gidget herself, the incomparable Sally Field) is in just about every scene. I know that kind of naively-enthusiastic caring character is not really in vogue anymore; people like Continue Reading
Forget the Good Place or the bad place! What about The Infinite Place?
Iron Man isn’t afraid of ANYTHING. How do we know this? Well, according to the latest brilliantly-clever, very funny animated video from the talented Leigh Lahav, not even death ruffles his cooler-than-cool feathers. Appearing before Michael from NBC’s sitcom-of-the-moment The Good Place, Iron Man is not the least bit Continue Reading
Colony: “Sea Spray” (S3, E10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … OUTLIERS AND SKULDUGGERY APLENTY … We all know that the Morkocalypse, which is what the alien apocalypse of Colony shall henceforth be named after the inspiring renaming of the RAPs by one of the proto-members of Broussard (Tory Kittles) and Will’s (Josh Holloway) new resistance cell, Dave Continue Reading
Christmas in July #2: I read A Sesame Street Christmas by Pat Tornborg
If you’re a big kid at heart, and honestly where is the fun in not being one, then you’ll adore the idea of immersing in the loveliness and bonhomie of A Sesame Street Christmas. First published in by Golden Books in 1982 with a delightful story of the Muppets Continue Reading
No calm after the storm: Fear the Walking Dead debuts S4b poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters
I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading