It’s hard not to walk out of a movie like Brad Furman’s Runner Runner without wanting to run straight home to your computer, design and print up some “Have you seen this film’s plot?” and slap them to every wall and pole in Tinseltown. Granted that’s a lot of Continue Reading
Whoosh! QUICK peek at the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special promo trailers
Unless you’ve been living under Luddite’s pet rock, far from entertainment news of any kind, you will know that Doctor Who turns 50 this year! (The show that is, which premiered on 23 November 1963 with William Hartnell in the titular role, not the man himself who is at Continue Reading
TV review: The Blacklist (pilot episode)
“I think I smell the stench of your cologne, Agent Cooper. Smells like hubris.” Once more to the anti-hero well, my friends, once more! And in the case of James Spader, who eats worthy hammed-up parts for breakfast while the rest of us are still contemplating getting out of Continue Reading
Brrr! Disney releases full trailer for Frozen
SNAPSHOT In Frozen, fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s Continue Reading
TV review: Revolution (S2, E1 “Born in the USA”)
Revolution is no longer your grandmother’s apocalyptic drama, my friends. Somewhere between the nukes being launched, courtesy of soon-to-be-dead patriot Randall Flynn (Colm Feore), from the newly powered up Tower towards the yet-to-be-renamed Monroe Republic, headquartered in Philadelphia, and the Georgia Federation in Atlanta, and the resumption of Revolution‘s Continue Reading
[All of us] will be here for you: Orphan Black gets a Friends makeover
Two odder TV bedfellows you could not imagine right? Which is course precisely the point for the inspired YouTube user SnowBalls3, who put together images from BBC America’s dark conspiracy-rich sci-fi drama Orphan Black, starring the multi-talented Tatiana Maslany, and Friends, one of the most successful sitcoms in TV history Continue Reading
The accidental novelty song: What does The Fox say exactly?
We’re all far too familiar with the novelty song, an insanely catchy song of often dubious artistic value that seems to come out of nowhere, usually from an artist no one has never heard of, and disappears almost as quickly as it comes. Theirs is usually a brief, bright, Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: A Case of You
SNAPSHOT Young writer Sam (Justin Long) has a crush on Birdie (Evan Rachel Wood), a cute and quirky barista. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that make him Birdie’s dream Continue Reading
The Undead News: The latest from the apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead
We are so close to the premiere of season 4 of The Walking Dead on October 13 that I can almost taste it. (Naturally of course I won’t be since (a) Zombies have major hygiene and ongoing health issues and (b) contrary to what you’ve been told they don’t taste Continue Reading
TV review: Big School (S1, E1)
It seems, if the press reports are anything to go by, that David Walliams and I have something in common. No, you may be surprised to learn it’s not a stellar career as a BAFTA Award-winning comedian (thanks to his work on Little Britain with co-creator Matt Lucas) nor Continue Reading