Tag Archives: TV

I had heard of Hemlock Grove some time ago, recommended to me for the weird mystery and excellent werewolf transformations. Since then, I’ve had it recommended to me several times over. So I found it particularly interesting that after a ...

Adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s book series of the same name, Outlander is a new series for the Starz cable network. The show debuted on August 9th, 2014 and is currently on a mid-season break, starting again on April 4th. The ...

Terry Gilliam has a gift for creating visually stunning yet disturbing films. Among them is cult favourite science fiction thriller Twelve Monkeys (1995). Based on a 1962 French short film, La Jetée, it is now being completely ‘reimagined’ as a ...

It is rare that something created as a kind of advertisement for its parent production actually outperforms the original in terms of critical response. Of course, it wasn’t terribly difficult to create something better than George Lucas’s wooden prequels. Star ...

Every year there are so many new additions to the creative world. No one could ever keep up with all of it. And this uber-consumer of popular culture products is no different. That said, I have consumed an awful lot ...

I love a good sitcom. Unfortunately, as the years have gone by, too many sitcoms rest on tired jokes and tropes without bothering to say anything interesting about the amusing situations that naturally crop up in everyday life. And to ...

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line is the first book in a new mystery series based on the Veronica Mars television series and film. The series is written by the show’s creator Rob Thomas with Jennifer Graham. The second book in ...

With the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer, we can see that – yet again – some of the action will take place on Tatooine. After I let out an exasperated sigh – I mean come ...

On and off over the last few years, I’ve been following the adventures of a blogger called Mark Oshiro. Mark reviews books and TV that are popular (and makes fun of bad fanfiction), and gives chapter by chapter, or episode ...

Anyone who thinks that fairytales are just for children are sadly mistaken. If you were to give them a copy of Grimm’s fairytales I would put money on them being shocked by the dark content of these so-called children’s stories. ...