It is always a pleasure discovering that your initial partial negative suppositions about a new show were unfounded and that it is so much more than you expected it to be. As we bid a short, Christmas-hiatus farewell to The Blacklist (known here in Australia as James Spader’s The Continue Reading
Zeitgeist Embyronic #2: 5 more possibly amazing shows in the throes of development
Ah the breathless anticipation of what might be! It’s enough to get the pulse racing, the heart a-thumpin’ and your clammy, trembling hands reaching for the remote, eager to watch those much talked about programs now. Ah-ah-ah not so fast my friends! For many of these shows are Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The Hardy Boys
How I didn’t end up as a detective in a police force somewhere solving crimes and living out of a mysterious hidden headquarters I will never know. Given the amount of mystery series aimed at children and teens that I voraciously read in my defining years – clearly not Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Too Far Gone” (S4, E8 review)
*Yes there are spoilers … and walkers … and bloodbaths and mayhem* And so the end has come – well the mid-season end anyway with no new season 4 episodes till February 2014 – giving us two wholly different but emphatic answers to the great thematic question of this Continue Reading
Poster me this #5: Muppets Most Wanted, Wolf of Wall Street, Paddington, The Invisible Woman,The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ah the end of the year. So many movies, so little time (yes even with holidays at our disposal, there seems to be more cinematic temptations on offer than there are hours available to spend sitting in darkened theatres, popcorn in hand)! Working out just what to watch is Continue Reading
ABBA’s Ring Ring Deluxe Edition (history of the album + review)
After over 40 years in the public spotlight, it is easy enough to assume that ABBA were always ABBA, four talented Swedes who somehow emerged from the womb as a joint entity, their fates already intertwined, their birthright already sealed as the creators and purveyors of some of the Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art 11: The relentlessly cheerful art of James Hance
I love those random moments in life when you decide to do one thing instead of the other – for the record I was supposed to starting the next module of my online Photoshop course and chose to graze down my Facebook timeline instead; best procrastinating ever! – and Continue Reading
Play God. Pay the price: the new extended Helix trailer
Helix, the latest show from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), is increasingly looking like another chillingly salutary lesson in what happens when humanity gets delusions of grandeur and overextends itself, with unforeseen devastating consequences the nightmarish result. What starts out a routine operation to a remote privately-run arctic research facility Continue Reading
My 5 favourite Pixar short films
Pixar, which began life as the Graphics Group, part of LucasFilm, back in 1979, producing high end computer imaging hardware, and was once owned by Steve Jobs until sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion, is generally regarded as the preeminent purveyor of modern computer animation. Films like Toy Continue Reading
A multiplicity of trailers for Orphan Black season 2 (2014)
SEASON 2 SNAPSHOT Season two of the series hits the ground running with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day, Parks and Recreation) in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler, Carrie). Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone, Rachel (Maslany), dividing and imperiling all Continue Reading