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AKA Nobody Move, Nobody Get Boiled

When you, as a man, watch Jessica Jones, a TV series about a female superhero, a show that makes a point of utilising female directors, of getting released on International Women’s Day…do you have any right or authority to comment? I’d like to hope I do: it’s still a TV show about superheroics and fucked up people, the kind of [...]

Owning A Star Trek: A Review (With Spoilers)

Its’ been about 12 years since the Star Trek franchise left our TV screens; well (repeats aside); it’s been even longer since good Star Trek left our TV screens. (I never cared for Enterprise, found Star Trek: Voyager boringly problematic, but will fight anyone who has anything ill to say about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.) Bringing the franchise back to TV screens was always going to be problematic: while there’s plenty [...]

The Historian: Book Review

As an English undergraduate, there were many (many, many, many) books that I picked up with the intention of reading…and never finished. A lot of them, I never even started. I mentioned that a few posts back in a review on The Strain series and the connected TV show. After reading and watching that series, it seemed natural to continue dealing [...]

The Cloverfield Para-problem

Once upon a time, there existed a script called God Particle. I don’t care what was actually in the script: but that very name, mostly the usage of the word ‘God,’ triggers excitement in these old bones. That script, by Oren Uiel, was bought by Paramount ,who announced the movie in 2012, starting a production cycle that we mere mortals [...]

RIP The God Particle

Once upon a time, there existed a script called God Particle. I don’t care what was actually in the script: but that very name, mostly the usage of the word ‘God,’ triggers excitement in these old bones. That script, by Oren Uiel, was bought by Paramount ,who announced the movie in 2012, starting a production cycle that we mere mortals [...]

The Strain Or The Struggle

I used to think I had good taste in books. I still remember books that I read 10-20 years ago, books that included beats or moments that invested me in a character or a world, the type of little things that made me want to work in that world wherein you create your own stories. I actually had a weird [...]

Space, The Final Front-Bore

These are the voyages of the starship Orville. Its meaningless mission: to explore a world that has already been established; to seek out moments that are meant to be humorous (and aren’t); to badly go where science fiction and comedy have probably gone before. “Hey, there’s a new Seth MacFarlane show on TV that’s basically trying to do a comedy [...]

When The Shit Gets Shitty

You know when you’re having one of those days when life is just being a bit of a dick to you? Yeah, that day’s been running for a few months at this stage, like some sort of time-travel of something. I am in Groundhog Day  and don’t even have the joy of putting up some snow. Last blog-post, did a video [...]

Just Us & Injustice

My darling husband decided he’d be nice to me and buy me a copy of Injustice 2 for no other reason than he thought I’d enjoy it (if only he’d stop playing Friday The 13th for long enough for me to get a go on it.)You see kids, part of the fun of Netherrealm games is going through every single character and checking out their stats [...]

Who Ranges The Power Rangers?

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched anything Power Rangers (but perhaps not as long as some people.) As a child, I watched the first incarnation of the show because it was full of superheroes, villains and mechs (I didn’t fully know what mechs were at the time.) The show played with all my creative senses in ways I didn’t [...]