SNAPSHOT Vulture sat down with the co-creators of Rick and Morty, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, along with producer Ryan Ridley, and voice actors Spencer Grammer (Summer), and Sarah Chalke (Beth), and asked them to improvise an episode in a Spongebob-like world. In this Vulture-animated short, Rick and Morty Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: S1, E1 “The Vulcan Hello” & E2 “Battle at the Binary Stars” review
At this stage of Star Trek’s just over 50 year old journey into the stars and the depths of humanity’s soul, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anywhere left to boldly go where we haven’t already boldly gone before. After all, from Captain Kirk to Archer, Continue Reading
Tough tonsillectomy or are you just not that Happy! (teaser promo)
Happy!, by writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson, is one very dark graphic novel. Mainly because its protagonist Nick (Chris Meloni), a bitter, angry, corrupt ex-cop-turned-dirty private investigator who never quite got over the death of his wife, is a man for whom the glass is not simply Continue Reading
The age of stone is over! Oops, someone forgot to tell Early Man (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and wooly mammoths roamed the earth, “Early Man” tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! (synopsis via Coming Soon) So can you imagine what it would feel like Continue Reading
Gaga: Five Foot Two reveals that stardom is not always a personal nirvana
SNAPSHOT In Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga narrates how loneliness has pervaded her life as a star. It also shows scenes of her struggling with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, as well as a snippet of an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in which she lists a Continue Reading
Someone get the man a calendar! Superstore S3 debuts featurette
Superstore is one of those little-engine-that-could sitcoms that often flies under the radar, dependably delivering up ratings without ever really setting the criticasl world on fire. Granted, it’s not, nor will it ever be a Frasier or an All in the Family classic but it is definitely a cut Continue Reading
Movie review: Kingsman The Golden Circle
As befits a series that began life as a series of comic books by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, the Kingsman films, first The Secret Service (2014) and now The Golden Circle, possess a cartoonish zest to go with their tales of Bond-like derring-do, their Bourne-levels of violent self-discovery and their almost Continue Reading
Reunited and it feels so festively good: Happy bonkers Christmas from French and Saunders
Apart from Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, my favourite comedic couple in the world is French and Saunders. After meeting as students in 1978 at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have gone onto stellar careers, reaching a collective zenith Continue Reading
Comic book review: Giant Days
Giant Days is one of those comics you fall in love with almost instantly. To be honest, instantly. How can you not? The three main characters – Esther de Groot, Susan Ptolemy and Daisy Wooton, all first year students at the University of Sheffield when the series opens – are Continue Reading
Take a deep breath! Here comes Young Sheldon
SNAPSHOT The show is the story of a young Sheldon Cooper (Ian Armitage), a character Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons made famous in the long-running series. The series is narrated by Parsons as the adult Sheldon, and takes on some of the stories about his childhood that he’s told Continue Reading