SNAPSHOT Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who moonlight as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. It ran from 1979 to Continue Reading
Fear your enemy: “Falling Skies” returns!
WHEN SEASON 3 OPENS … When “Falling Skies” season 3 begins, seven months have passed since the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston, and Tom (Noah Wyle) is the new President, but he’s also still out there fighting with the resistance. His decision to have the rebel skitters fight alongside Continue Reading
Get ready to enrol in “Monsters University”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Adoration” (previously “Two Mothers”)
MOVIE SYNOPSIS A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers [now Adoration] charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz, who fall in love with each other’s sons. Afraid of facing the ire and judgment of their Continue Reading
It’s time to watch the Muppets again … “That Puppet Game Show” announced
More Muppets in a brand new fun-filled format? Yes please! News that Disney-owned The Jim Henson Company is working closely with the BBC on a brand new show, That Puppet Game Show, to be shown on BBC1, sent a madcap shiver of excitement through my Muppet-loving veins. Consisting of Continue Reading
TV review: “The Revolution” season 1 finale, ‘The Dark Tower’
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Now this is how you stage a finale. Power plays, shifting alliances, plot twists, explosions (some bigger than others; or at least with the potential to be), fist fights, gun fights, relationships broken, relationships rebuilt … and death. Lots and lots of death. It had everything you Continue Reading
Where is the love? 5 shows I have inadvertently neglected … and how I plan to remedy that
It is often said nowadays that we live in a new, glorious golden age of television. And to a large extent that is true with television increasingly the medium where gifted storytellers choose to tell their stories in preference to movies, many of which tend to be relying on Continue Reading
Everything “Breaking Bad” must come to an end
SNAPSHOT Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Continue Reading
Movie review: “Un Bonheur N’Arrive Jamais Seul (Happiness Never Comes Alone)”
If the delightful charms of co-writer and director James Huth’s bubbly romantic comedy, Happiness Never Comes Alone, prove anything, it’s the truism of Shakespeare’s oft-quoted maxim from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that the course to true love, [whatever that may be], never does run smooth. Of course being a Continue Reading
Coming to a TV near you: 5 promising new season sitcoms #2
It’s that time of the year again! The current TV season is coming to a close and as the shows we know and love wrap it up for another year, some of them never to be seen again, a jostling crop of hopefuls is waiting in the wings ready Continue Reading