Category: Humour
Space Force (Netflix comedy SF TV series: 2nd trailer).
From the team who brought you The Office, Space Force hits May 29th 2020 on Netflix, created by Greg Daniels and starring Steve Carell, starring Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers and Tawny Newsome. Carell’s character, Mark Naird, is the general in charge of the effort and the series follows his efforts to get […]
Space Force (Netflix SF comedy TV series: trailer).
If you need a laugh – and hey, who doesn’t? – then here’s the first trailer for the new SF(ish) comedy from Netflix, Space Force, from the same bods who brought you The Office, and starring Steve Carell as General Mark R. Naird, head of the new U.S. Space Force, and John Malkovich as Dr. […]
Blood Quantum (zombie horror film: trailer).
Streaming on Shudder US and UK comes another zombie horror film, Blood Quantum, where the walkers have taken over the towns but on the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, Indigenous inhabitants are immune to the zombie plague … and must therefore cope with the consequences of its impact in the country around them, including […]
How to deal sensitively with a chum who goes steampunk? (instructive video)
There is a right way to deal with a friend who is embracing their inner steampunk, and there is a wrong way … this instructive video gives you a baseline for normality and allows you to talk them down from that iron clockwork gear-strewn edge.
Future Man (3rd season trailer for this scifi TV series).
Here’s a trailer for the 3rd season of the comedy science fiction TV series, Future Man, where a janitor, Josh Futturman, successfully completes his favorite game (that was considered unbeatable), Biotic Wars, only to discover the game’s two main characters, Tiger and Wolf, appearing to recruit Josh to save the world from the real Biotic […]
Solar Opposites (animated SF TV series: trailer).
Solar Opposites is a sci-fi animated comedy TV series created by Justin Roiland (of Rick and Morty fame) and Mike McMahan for Hulu, set to hit on May 8th, 2020. A family of aliens takes refuge in middle America, where they disagree on whether this is awful or awesome.
Red Dwarf: The Promised Land (movie trailer).
Red Dwarf: The Promised Land is a smegging hot new science-fiction comedy television film – the thirteenth outing of the British science-fiction sitcom, Red Dwarf, in fact. This TV movie sees the Red Dwarf crew of Dave Lister (Charles), Arnold Rimmer (Barrie), the Cat (John-Jules), and Kryten (Llewellyn) face-off against Rodon (Ray Fearon), the leader […]
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (trailer: weird Wes Anderson movie).
Here’s the first trailer for a weird Wes Anderson movie (hey, do they ship in any other flavour?), called The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun. This puppy centres on a magazine filled with news from France published by a U.S. newspaper called the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun – supposedly fictional, but loosely […]
High Fire by Eoin Colfer (book review).
‘Lord Highfire’ was a magnificent dragon, flaming whole villages when angered and ruling his kingdom through fear and awe. These days he goes by the name of Vern and lives in a shack in the swamps of Louisiana. Times have changed. Vern still doesn’t trust humans, though, so he’s as surprised as anyone when he […]
Spaced (at 21): geekiest sitcom ever? (video: cast panel).
Spaced was perhaps the geekiest comedy sitcom, like, ever! It could take on the Big Bang Theory and leave our American cousins wheezing on the floor, begging for less scifi and comic-book in-jokes! In this video panel, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, its director, Edgar Wright and cast and crew including Mark Heap and Reece […]
