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February 27, 2017
Putting Your Dick In Crazy – Tom Hardy’s Taboo
Saturday evening on the BBC: I think the polite term here is “fluffy,” full of appointment-viewing that you’re not exactly heart-broken to miss. (Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing are on the better end of the spectrum, some weeks anyway; then you have perpetual hanger-on Casualty, a show that’s lasted longer than most of its patients.) Whatever some Whovians might [...]
February 26, 2017
Bullet Buffet – Free Fire
Director Ben Wheatley brought his latest film Free Fire to the ADIFF last week (the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, if you’re not into your abbreviations.) The film has already been seen at a bunch of other festivals, but it seemed appropriate for Wheatley to bring this film back to this side of the atlantic. With him, Wheatley brought the Irish actors [...]
February 20, 2017
Holy Lego Bricks, Batman
Everyone has their own favourite take on the Batman character (and they will talk a lot about why their favourite is the ‘right’ one, ignoring every other Batman presented before them.) So it’s quite rewarding to watch a film that brings the best of every Batman together, clicking the pieces into one functional and enjoyable whole. Just like Lego really. [...]
February 19, 2017
We Are Legi(x)n
I’m now two whole episodes into Legion on FX and I’m sure I’m not the only person to come to something of a revelation: this may be the most X-Men thing to ever X-Men. Ever. It’s not a terribly big secret, but I guess it sort of is: I haven’t noticed the word “mutant” being used (yet…it’s due in the third episode if I’m [...]
February 6, 2017
Up Up Down Down – As Above, So Below
In some alternate universe, I still write regular movie and video-game reviews, running my own entertainment website. In that same universe, I am now A FUCKING MEDIA MOGUL and next in line to be president of an undefined country. In this universe, however, I’m a normal guy who’s fallen out of the habit of being creative, shut down his old [...]
January 14, 2017
That One Kids TV Show You Barely Remember
Yeah, I haven’t written anything in a very long time. So sue me (please don’t sue me. Also, I don’t think you’d have a plausible reason to do so. But if you can find one, please let me know. I will thenuse it against you and monitise it.) Over the last few months, I’ve noticed little things coming back. Whether [...]
May 10, 2016
Civil War & Peace
It takes a special type of film to pit multiple superheroes against each other, to put good guys up against other good guys and see what happens. Captain America: Civil Warisn’t even the only such film out this quarter. (Okay, so depending on where and when your quarter starts and finishes, maybe it’s not the […]
May 4, 2016
10 Things About Cancer Treatment Nobody Talks About
I’m a full year out of the madness, 366 days (it’s a leap-year after all) on from treatment for a “grade two astrocytoma with grade three elements.” It’s a posh way of saying I had a brain tumour, and it was sort of cancerous. That’s afull year on from feeling like shit every other day, wondering why your body has [...]
April 12, 2016
From The Cave To The Heavens
Yeah, I sawBatman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.At this stage, a lot of people have seen it. And a lot of people didn’t like it. No, I’m holding my punches there: a lot of people hated it, and have been spewing such horrible, affected vitriol in the general directions of this film that its making me question their fucking sanity. [...]
March 29, 2016
Blind To The Grind
Oh, how I lovedDaredevilseason 2. Now flip it, reverse it, take out the formatting and we’ll discuss my feeling for Daredevil. Damn, Daredevil is a jerk, and this series of words is brought to you having watched thirteen episodes of him being a jerk. When season one of Daredevildropped last year, itbroke the mould for the current Marvel Cinematic Universe [...]
