SNAPSHOT Air follows two caretakers of a facility specifically set-up to deal with the fact Earth atmosphere is all but destroyed. They’re humanity’s last hope as they release cryogenically frozen personnel from the underground bunker to test out what they believe to be the last habitable place on the Continue Reading
Crossovers! When TV show worlds collide
You can never get too much of a good thing right? Of course not! It’s an ethos that has fuelled many an all-night party, a weekend-long TV watching binge on Netflix and crossover episodes, where “two or more TV shows [are revealed] to exist in the same fictional universe” (according Continue Reading
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Oh yes it is, it really, really is!
If you’re anything like me, and you may or may not regret wondering if you are, then it’s probably never have occurred to you to mash up Max Max Fury Road, the latest critically and commercially successful entry in the venerable apocalyptic franchise, and 1963’s road trip comedies to Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hunger Pains” (S5, E2 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND SKITTERS … AND MORE SKITTERS AHEAD * So there goes dinner … Starving and insanely short on good old edibles after an unexpected suicide Skitter attack, one of many waves of seemingly feral Skitter attacks to plague the 2nd Mass. Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pancakes shaped as pop culture characters? Yum yum chomp!
I never fail to be amazed at the way true artists like TigerTomato manage to take my favourite breakfast food ever, the humble though delicious pancake – yeah sorry Sultana Bran but you’re not even in the running – and turn it into visually-delighting works of art. Because, my Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Mercy
In the best of all possible worlds, biopics should be the most personal and affecting of film genres. After all, they tell the story, either whole or in part, of some extraordinary person’s life – their highs and lows, triumphs and defeats, an exemplar of humanity writ large for us to Continue Reading
Now this is music #52: Myami, FMLYBND, Joywave, Dive In, KLOË
There’s just one thing to say with this latest selection of songs – DANCE! Seriously cast aside the woes and travails of the week, get up on the dancefloor and lose yourself in the music. That doesn’t mean though that you have to put your brain in neutral. All five of Continue Reading
The many TV children of Orphan Black #SDCC
It goes without saying (but you know I ‘m going to say it anyway) that Orphan Black is a freakishly amazingly good, nay GREAT show. Coming complete with a gripping conspiracy-laced narrative that intelligently dissects the modern moral and ethical conundrum of genetic science, and the mesmerisingly good performances Continue Reading
Schlock horror seafood! Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
There are classic films beloved by millions, lionised by critics the world over, films that have come to define cinema as we know it … And then there is Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf, the latest in the ridiculously popular Sharktopus franchise – it follows Sharktopus (2010) and Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda Continue Reading
Movie review: Paper Towns
A perennial complaint by readers of a beloved book brought to the big screen is that “The movie is nothing like the book!” And while by necessity that is always going to be the case, some books make the transition to the big screen in far better shape than Continue Reading