The urge to belong is a powerful impulse. It impels us to do everything from mimicking certain patterns of speech, adopting different hair and clothing styles, seeking out fora both online and off that we can actively participate in, and giving up all manner of affectations, luxuries or vice, Continue Reading
I spy a new gleefully funny trailer for The Penguins of Madagascar
SNAPSHOT Discover the secrets of the most entertaining and mysterious birds in the global espionage game: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private now must join forces with the chic spy organization, the North Wind, led by Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then… you know), voiced by Continue Reading
Movie review: These Final Hours
If there is one common thread running through the seeming never-ending spate of apocalypse-themed movies and TV shows of late, it is that it is possible, even as the world is ending, to come across some modicum of humanity, a lingering trace of the better angels of our nature. Continue Reading
Behind the scenes with The Muppets! (new digital series)
It will come as no surprise to anyone that The Muppets are among the biggest movers and shakers in Hollywood. Safe and sound back on what Walter, new kid on The Muppets block and eager intern in the giddy world of showbiz, refers to as the “Disney Drive-on” (“Where Continue Reading
(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: Amanda Ching, author of the novelette “House of Cards”
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. Amanda Ching describes herself on her blog, Panda-monium, Continue Reading
First impressions: The Strain
If you were to judge Guillermo del Toro’s first venture into the currently burgeoning world of television, The Strain (based on the 2009 trilogy of horror novels he penned with Chuck Hogan) on its constituent building blocks alone, you could’ve forgiven for wondering how the show has attracted the Continue Reading
Movie review: Guardians of the Galaxy
There is no denying that Marvel is a modern cinematic force of nature. Through film after stupendously successful, box office-dominating film such as those of Thor, Captain America or Iron Man or the grandaddy of them all The Avengers, the studio begat by Stan Lee’s sprawling comic book empire Continue Reading
If I were a captain: Firefly Online beckons fans to be a part of its ‘verse
I can still hear her anguished cry echoing across my living room (which is reasonably big so there was sort of a kind of echo … anyway it was dramatic trust me!). After talking talking non-stop for months on end about the brilliance of Joss Whedon‘s epic space opera Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Door Number Three (S4, E6 review)
The quiz show alluding-title aside, Falling Skies was this week less like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy – “What is a destructive, genocidal, invasive alien species for $50 please Alex?” – or any TV game of chance to be honest, than it was a replay of every bad Christmas Continue Reading
Come and play … Sesame Street’s 45th season trailer is A-OK!
Happy 45th season Sesame Street! Why it seems just like yesterday that I was a 4 1/2 year old kid, freshly returned from Bangladesh in 1970, discovering the delights of television and specifically the enduring delights of a program barely a year old itself – Sesame Street. Premiering on Continue Reading