Film

About six months ago I was talking to a friend about what we had been reading recently. In her handbag was Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It was one of those books that she loved to reread ...

Some people might think that a Shakespearean comedy is a strange choice for the director of The Avengers and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to take on. Back when Joss Whedon was working on Buffy and Angel, he used ...

*spoiler free review* Plot 33 years ago in a galaxy far, far away, Krypton is dying.  Those greedy Kryptonians have used up all their natural resources and started mining the planet’s core, essentially digging their own graves.  Meanwhile, Kryptonian SecDef ...

I’m a huge fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I have read the book three times, which is rare for me. Very few titles make it onto the ‘read more than once’ list. Films made from books rarely achieve ...

I was having a discussion with my housemate (and fellow Pop Verse writer) Ash the other day, and we came to an agreement about the new Star Trek films. He was never a fan of old Star Trek in any ...

Star Trek is a franchise that has been around since 1966, when we first met Captain Kirk. Since then, we have had another four series and eleven films. On May 9th, the next film in the series, Star Trek Into ...

What should a good comic book film be? Fun with a lot of action – with a little heart thrown in. Iron Man 3 ticked all of the right boxes. Let’s start with a little context. I thoroughly enjoyed the ...

Australian films should enjoy more exposure, they are often brilliant and always interesting (they try to set themselves apart from Hollywood films). As an Aussie living in England, with an English boyfriend, I like to expose him to some Australiana ...

There’s something of a universal truth that the development of modern Internet culture has only reaffirmed: haters gon’ hate. For those who have made up their minds already, there won’t be much I can say to change that. But for ...

A review implies that I will have a definitive opinion of the subject matter that I am reviewing. I am warning you now, if that is what you expect, you will be disappointed. I honestly don’t know how I feel ...