Reviews

Sometimes I worry that my critic brain has superseded all else. Books, films, TV shows that everyone else loves I scratch my head and wonder what I’m missing. I’m poking holes in all of them, asking ‘but why?’ over and ...

This collection of critical writing on SF taps into the SF community and the debates happening around what we all love best: speculative fiction. This doesn’t just mean SF writing (though this is where the bulk of the essays are ...

The trailer for Tomorrowland made it look action-packed and interesting. Sadly, the most thrilling aspects of the film are featured in the trailer almost shot for shot. The action is very limited, with the first act being slow, bumbling, and ...

With Mental Health Awareness Week last week in the UK, mental health issues are a hot topic. Aly Sidgwick’s debut novel will tap into this zeitgeist perfectly, helping to dispel some of the myths around mental illness. The novel pulls ...

I love the first Pitch Perfect film. It was outrageously stupid and yet easily relatable with its use of generic rom-com and competition-driven tropes. The comedy was gross-out, entirely un-politically correct, and often times straight up bizarre. But I loved ...

Man and Superman is one of those plays where you leave and desperately wish to be able to pontificate on life, the universe, and everything with the merest fraction of wit and intelligence as the characters in it. I feel ...

The fourth installment of George Miller’s post-apocalyptic series Mad Max sees Tom Hardy taking up the mantle of the titular Max. The film has been awarded almost universal acclaim, praising the acting, directing, and depth for a blockbuster action film. ...

Back in 2009, Image Comics launched Chew, a strange series about an FDA agent with a peculiar talent. The gamble paid off. Chew was a commercial hit and managed to win over the critics as well, having won two Eisner ...

Iain Banks is a very well respected and commercially successful writer. While he tends to be more widely known for his literary fiction writing under the name ‘Iain Banks’, he also wrote a number of successful science fiction novels under ...

Malignant rage and sadistic vengeance are the name of the game in Wild Tales, an Argentinian anthology film by director Damián Szifrón. This is my first exposure to the director’s work and I certainly intend to see more after this ...