One of the most gripping, fresh-voiced and emotionally authentic shows to have emerged in the arguably crowded zombie genre in the last couple of years has been BBC3’s In the Flesh, a series that looks at the way in which society reacts when the undead apocalypse, known in this Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Listen Up Philip
SNAPSHOT Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elizabeth Moss), and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Continue Reading
Planning some TV binge-watching? Check this handy chart out first!
In case you hadn’t noticed – in which case you are an astoundingly well-organised person of almost savant-like powers who is completely up to date in all things; I may just have to worship you once I finish season 6 of Dexter and season 8 of Supernatural and … – Continue Reading
Defiance: “The Opposite of Hallelujah” (season 2 premiere review)
Defiance as a premise is everything my eternally sci-fi loving heart loves in a show. It’s post-apocalyptic – that’s what happens when an invading collective of seven alien races arrives to take Earth as their own following the annihilation of their own system, goes to war with humanity and Continue Reading
Can you show me how to get … REALLY QUICKLY! … to Sesame Street
In a lot of ways, my childhood, which involved consuming countless hours of Sesame Street at my leisure (including the gorgeous Grover, and Ernie and Bert) feels like it all happened a million years ago. It’s probably partly the passage of time and partly the fact that the world Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Books, movies, music and TV shows re-imagined with LEGO
Is there nothing that LEGO cannot do? On the basis of The LEGO Movie, countless LEGO playsets and countless hours I spent as a child building everything from mansions to spaceships and boats out of the endlessly useful Danish coloured blocks, I would have to say a big hearty Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Three upcoming cinematic tales of love
Love comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The delicious all-encompassing wonderfulness of falling headlong, deeply and completely in love. The unfailingly strong bonds of lifelong friendship. And the sometimes strained, often dysfunctional but usually steadfast love that holds every family together. While this is by no means Continue Reading
Home is where Coldplay’s video for A Sky Full of Stars is
This was not a good week to be Andrew the ardent Coldplay fan. Not only did I fail to get tickets to their one-and-only Ghost Stories concert in Australia, at the Enmore Theatre, a mere 15 minutes walk from where I live, but I also ended up having to Continue Reading
That’s the way we play Game of Thrones: Wil Wheaton’s hilariously inspired take on the show’s title sequence
For a man who is likely the last person on Earth to have not watched any episodes of The Game of Thrones, I have managed in just one week to feature not one but two enormously clever clips referencing this zeitgeist-bestriding show. In this case, it’s an inordinately clever Continue Reading
Now this is music #31: Bleachers, Ghost Estates, Go Wolf, machineheart, Little India
Yep, I know what you’re all thinking. The teddy bear (above) should be up and dancing, rather than lolly-gagging around in plush toy bliss. And while normally I would say “Hey just let the bear sit a spell; being played with by children a lot is exhausting”, in this Continue Reading