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March 21, 2016
Number Of The Beast: 10 Cloverfield Lane
I have a problem with10 Cloverfield Lane. Well, I have many problems with10 Cloverfield Lane.But I have a big problem with that name. This is a marketing tease of the highest order: those of us who rememberCloverfieldfrom 2008 remember it more for the hype and the marketing than the movie itself. Yeah, there was a pseudo-political tone that brought back [...]
March 4, 2016
High Rise: Decadence On The 30th Floor
Based on the book of the same name by JG Ballard, High-Riseis a project long in the making, finally brought to our screens by Ben Wheatley. This is easily thebiggest project of Wheatley’s career so far: the director behindKill List, SightseersandA Field In England, Wheatley has finally gotten his teeth into a much larger project (cast, budget, content, you name [...]
February 4, 2016
Let’s Talk About Cancer
Today, 4th February is World Cancer Day. So let’s take some time away from movies and films and selfies and water charges and talk about cancer. What’s that? You don’t want to talk about cancer? Yeah, tough shit. In the time it takes you to say you “don’t want to talk about cancer,” I guarantee you someone, somewhere is being [...]
January 25, 2016
Stranger Danger
It’s been a while since I read comics properly, certainly not in the same way that I used to. It’s been 20-25 years of toying around with certain worlds and characters, always coming back at different times. (I thought those numbers were a bit overly generous, then I did a quick Google search. Apparently, theX-Menanimated series debuted in 1992: at [...]
January 20, 2016
DC Win Wednesday
Let’s talk about thatSuicide Squadtrailer then. My Wednesday was off to a dodgy start anyway (having one ofthoseweeks) until I saw this. There is nothing about this trailer that I don’t like, perhaps even love; for the first time in my life, Harley Quinn is bearable (actually, entertaining and interesting); that musical choice is so amazing, it’ll push the song [...]
January 11, 2016
The Starman
In the face of impending death, a man writes about…well, his impending death. He looks the grim reaper straight in the eye. And he smiles. This is not a work of fiction: this is a true story that is hitting the news today. Today, we’ve been given a gift, one of the most powerful things an artist will ever do, [...]
December 20, 2015
Jam Of The Year
I’ve spent a lot of time alone with my Spotify and Apple Music accounts recently, and both are making various suggestions about what songs they think I like. They could be right, and they could be wrong. My musical taste is weird and eclectic and I’m pretty proud of it. Because it encompasses most genres and just as much as [...]
November 5, 2015
Farewell, X-Men
It’s been a while since I’ve read comics properly. Real-life got in the way (real-life leaning towards a brain tumour and multiple surgeries and chemotherapy and radiotherapy.) I just didn’t have the time for fantasy and drama and fiction any longer. That broke my heart. The X-Men were and are a powerful metaphor for life for many reasons. So whenUncanny [...]
September 27, 2015
London Calling
It’s been an interesting few days, three days that have seemed like a bunch of brand new experiences, and also a bunch of things that I’m so used to, they’re not new or interesting or special or anything like that. You see: I actually got to go away. To go on a holiday of sorts. It wasn’t just going away [...]
September 8, 2015
When Thundercats Turned Us Gay
I’ve been sitting at home watching TV far too much recently. A lot of thathas been watchingCountdownand15 to 1and other such game-shows that are somehow capable of going on for longer than they should, but are somehow part of life. Oh, andCharmedre-runs. But in amongst all this revisiting my youth,where the hell are the Thundercats? And then I realised that [...]
