The American Film Institute voted An Affair to Remember the most romantic film of all time. It is a seminal classic. But how many people know that it was a remake of a film made 18 years earlier – with ...
Read More »Your new favourite show might be online only
With the advent of new technology comes a myriad of opportunity. The Internet allowed for a great number of things such as social media, blogs, media streaming, and online shopping. Media, in all its guises, has been fundamentally altered by ...
Read More »The Acquirers: This Land
This Land And finally, after 15 strips, we reveal how we ended up with a naked butt in the desert. There were some who said it couldn’t be done, the same people also said I couldn’t get three Firefly references in ...
Read More »The Acquirers: Had Better Days
Had Better Days If today’s comic looks familiar, its because its our little tribute to Joss Whedon’s cult classic TV show Firefly. If you want to relive the glorious moment take a look at the video below (The scene starts ...
Read More »Much Ado About Nothing
Some people might think that a Shakespearean comedy is a strange choice for the director of The Avengers and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to take on. Back when Joss Whedon was working on Buffy and Angel, he used ...
Read More »10 reasons why I’m excited about Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The US fall television line-up is out. Out of the new shows, there are some we’re excited about, some we’re curious to see, and others we couldn’t care less about. Then there’s Joss Whedon’s return to television: Marvel’s Agents of ...
Read More »Castle: 100 episodes
My mother loves crime procedurals and I used to watch many of them with her. You name it, she watched it: Jag, NCIS, Frost, Lewis, Morse, Poirot, New Tricks, Midsummer Murders, etc. Ok, so quite a few of them are ...
Read More »Kickstarter: Crowd funding, yay or nay?
Kickstarter first caught my attention last year when a friend put out a call on facebook to get enough money together to purchase a ‘house party’ by contributing to Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter campaign. I had been a big Dresden Dolls ...
Read More »Veronica Mars: Kickstarter success
It’s all over the Internet: the Veronica Mars movie is actually (finally) going to happen. Warner Bros Studios (rather cheekily, if you ask me… and MovieBob at the Escapist) told Rob Thomas (creator of the show) that they would make ...
Read More »Much Ado About Nothing: Trailer
When I was a kid, one of my favourite films was the 1993 Kenneth Branagh version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. And I really do mean when I was a kid – I’m talking from the age of seven ...
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