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This year has been a mixed bag. Solid franchises have left me feeling disappointed, Disney has both blown my mind and churned out utter dross, and some excellent comedies have kept me smiling. Looking back on the year, I found ...

So, we’re practically into 2016. Now is the time for looking back and taking stock – Oh screw it. End of year list article. You know how this works. I managed 40 films this year, here’s the cream of the crop ...

Fans of The Golden Girls are proud of the show’s boundary breaking premise. Even now, pitching a primetime series featuring an entirely female regular cast all over the age of 50 would be laughable. And yet, the series was an ...

Fans of SFF works have a bad reputation for being nit-picky, especially when it comes to the details of world-building. Strong world-building, however, is a big part of why readers are drawn to science fiction and fantasy. If we were ...

‘He said, “How many songs did you write?” I’d written zero; I’d lie and say ten. “You won’t be young forever. You should have written 15. It’s work.”‘ – ‘Work’, Lou Reed & John Cale In the later years of ...

Leeds is host to one of my preferred geek havens of the year, the Thought Bubble comic convention. Encamped at the Royal Armouries (free entry all year round, lots of weapons and armour, good enough to recommend on its own!), ...

Well, that didn’t take long. The pilot was oh so promising with it’s fun silliness and feminist mentality. What happened? The third episode, ‘Fight or Flight’ sees Supergirl take on one of Superman’s villains, Reactron. As already well established, much ...

I have been working my way through a number of classic science fiction novels, an area of my reading I’ve felt has been lacking. The latest was Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I found the novel a ...

‘Poetry doesn’t mean flowers and trees and bunnies and stuff’ – Mike IX Williams Punk is an approach, not a destination. It’s an ethos rather than a rulebook. But that’s an ideological debate that’s been present almost since its inception. ...

In Pan, recently released in cinemas worldwide, Rooney Mara’s casting as the Native American Tiger Lilly has left audiences baffled. Could the studio possibly have chosen a whiter white girl to portray a Native American character? And why would they ...