Last night, Joanne Froggatt began her long journey from the sweet Anna Bates that we will all never forget to her next role as Sunday-school teacher/nurse/Victorian wife and mother, Mary Ann Cotton. Oh and, yes, she was also a murderer. Cotton’s infamous spree of arsenic poisonings, with which she claimed up to 21 lives is enough to […]
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I think I’ve decided that only thing that could rival the fanboy love and appreciation for Sherlock Holmes by the mind palaces of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss is the love of film and all things Hitchcock-ian by League of Gentlemen alumni, Steve Pemberton and Reese Shearsmith. Case in point. Following the greatness of The […]
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Aside from The Shining and the original Halloween, there’s really not much I would rush out to find and watch on Halloween these days. Maybe a trip to Denton, Ohio and The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the umpteenth time but that’s about it. So, if you find yourself in the same frame of mind, here are a few that originated […]
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With Halloween fast approaching, there are many different kinds of scary when it comes to movies. From Jaws-scary to Psycho-scary to Texas Chainsaw Massacre-scary, tastes vary and levels of fright vary. As you begin to make your Halloween horror movie binge-watching selections for this weekend, you might want to think about staying home to watch the likes of […]
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Following the grand finale Wednesday night, The Great British Bake-Off on the BBC is no more. It has passed on. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has run down the curtain and gone off to meet the choir invisible. Bake off is an ex-series….on the BBC, that is. It will still live on […]
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Sherlock 4! New Year’s Day! PBS’ Masterpiece! — “It’s not a game anymore”! Even the NCAA knows enough to not go up against the return of the world’s greatest consulting detective as, magically, there are no bowl games on New Year’s Day this year. There are games December 31 and games on January 2 but […]
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At long last, Shaun the Sheep is set to return to the big screen in the not-too-distant future. Long-time fans will no doubt remember when Shaun first came on the scene with an appearance in the Wallace and Gromit Oscar-winning short film by Nick Park, A Close Shave, in 1995. From that brief appearance, Shaun got his […]
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I can remember a time when Saturday Night Live was so good, you didn’t go out until it ended. Those were the days of Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris. Fast forward to the 90s and the days of Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley and […]
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Sadly, these posts are happening with too much frequency these days. Jimmy Perry, creator and co-writer (with David Croft) on what’s is considered one of the most popular British TV sitcoms has passed at age 93. Voted #4 in the 2004 Britain’s Best Sitcom poll, Dad’s Army told the story of the British Home Guard during World War II. In […]
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While most of us cringe at even the first hint of an appearance of Christmas decorations in storefront windows (mainly due to the fact that they usually start appearing before Halloween), there are certain celebrated events or, in this case, yearly traditions to where it’s ok to begin talking about the upcoming holiday. Right at […]
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