My how time in Pawnee flies! Seems it was just yesterday a wide-eyed, optimistic and highly spirited young lady by the name of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) was thrilled to be the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department of this idiosyncratic city in Indiana, dream of turning Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers #5: Dear Mr Watterson, The Book Thief, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, That Awkward Moment
Once more to the movies my friends once more! And as always the heralds to what will hopefully be engaging, rewarding and water cooler-sharing worthy films are the trailers which arrive with the sort of frequency I would like my local train provider to follow. I have a mixed Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Infected” (S4, E2 review)
*SOME SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers too, no doubt)* The Walking Dead‘s “bubble o’ bliss and happiness”, never a robust creature to begin with, has well and truly burst in “Infected”. Again. Granted not completely this time, but it is leaking like a disaffected political party member at election time, Continue Reading
Intrigued much? Book titles made more enticing by changing a word or two
This is inspired! The amazingly talented folks at college humor, whose most excellent literary shenanigans I discovered via laughingsquid.com, have made some changes to the titles of much loved and well known books to make them, in the parlance of the interweb, more click bait worthy (in other words Continue Reading
Hart to Hart reunion … hosted by Amy Poehler and Adam Scott
You may think there’s not much to get excited about at 3 in the morning and you’d be right (save for the obvious … and by that I mean sleep thank you) unless a bout of insomnia leads you to trawl Twitter for a while and you come across Continue Reading
Let’s have some fun, yes fun, with The Walking Dead
OK I get it. Desperately fighting for your life in the midst of a zombie apocalypse is not exactly a whole lotta fun. If you’ve not scrabbling to get away from ravenous chompers, you’re keeping one eye cocked on your fellow humans, who may or may not have your Continue Reading
The Muppets go all (Lady) Gaga in new TV special
I have no idea how I missed this most unique of connections since I am a fan of both The Muppets and Lady Gaga but it appears the two doyens of the zeitgeist have been BFFs for quite some time now. According to eonline.com, who announced that Lady Gaga Continue Reading
TV review: “Orange is the New Black” (pilot episode)
Right so Orange is the New Black is one series that I am quite late to the party to by virtue of Australia being criminally Netflix-less and no one wanting make up for that terrible reality by buying the show a ticket on that fast track express mode of Continue Reading
Now this is music #16: Blood Cultures, Elizabeth Rose, Iselin Solheim, Yellerkin, Fe
Why don’t you ever hear politicians campaigning on a platform of ear candy for the masses? With all the amazing music everywhere these days, of which the following five songs are just a drop in the sonic ocean, surely they should be bringing in programs to ear worm each Continue Reading
TV Reviews: The Goldbergs (pilot) and Hello Ladies (pilot)
THE GOLDBERGS It’s one thing to see a long ago period of history portrayed on television where you have no direct links and no real emotional connection, and another entirely to watch a decade you lived through (yes all of it) come to life again. But The Goldbergs, a Continue Reading