The sitcom format had some major wins this year. At the top of the list is award winning (Golden Globe) police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. This series has been relentlessly funny all season. The publicity the Golden Globes brought helped this ...
Read More »Who are your Guardians of the Galaxy?
Update The film is out now and it’s as glorious as I predicted in this article way back in March. If you’re looking for the Pop Verse review then look no further than HERE! Otherwise read on and check out ...
Read More »Eminem, art, and the literal interpretation of lyrics
Every now and then I go flicking through my music collection and listen to something I’ve not listened to in a while. One of the most common artists to get revisited is Eminem. I love him. Always have. I can ...
Read More »I Don’t Believe That Sort Of Thing Happens Here: The TRB Top 5
When Ashes to Ashes, the follow-up series to Life on Mars, needed a countercultural icon to lead a protest in 1981, their choice was a little leftfield. A staunch advocate for gay rights, women’s rights and right-on, antiauthoritarian left wing ...
Read More »Grimm: The problem is… alligators don’t rob houses
I love fairytales. I also love ‘twisted fairytales’ – in whatever guise they may take, be they modern retellings, re-imaginings, or just creepy/weird versions. So it might surprise people to know that I only recently got into NBC’s ‘cop show ...
Read More »There Are Solutions, Of Course: In Smokey Man We Trust
‘Politics is the art of controlling your environment’ – Hunter S. Thompson ‘Bill Davis told me that he believes he is the hero of the show […] Whatever makes it easy for you to sleep at night, CSM.’ – David ...
Read More »Veronica Mars: Noir’s most haunted P.I.
The Veronica Mars Movie is almost here. I can smell it in the air. Excitement. Anticipation. Brilliance. After an astoundingly successful Kickstarter, we have been waiting a year for this. Well, more like seven years for those of us who ...
Read More »Love’s So Strange: The Dark (He)Art of Use Your Illusion
‘I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me’ – Axl Rose One upon a time there was a band who, for their second album proper, decided to lay ...
Read More »What we can learn from the Beat Generation: Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
Like many people my age (the wrong side of twenty-five and still not a millionaire – how disappointed my six-year-old self would be!), I often feel lost. I’m not someone who has had my life planned out – I don’t ...
Read More »Bill Hicks: Life’s just a ride…
Stand-up comedy. It’s not something I was ever into – I don’t think staying up late to watch a segment of William Shatner appearing on the Melbourne comedy festival really counts. It’s Bill Shatner. I knew about stand-ups. I’ve seen ...
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