Tag Archives: Review

It is no secret that I tend to loathe anything Tolkien. I haven’t been a fan of Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit so far, so it should come as no surprise that I didn’t think all that ...

This year I have discovered some great comics series. And all of the new series I’ve latched onto have been from Image Comics. Their output is fantastic and I can’t wait to read more (Fatale is the next one I ...

I’m not really sure what I expected of St. Vincent. Anything with Bill Murray in these days is at least interesting, so I wanted to see it. But the trailer didn’t give all that much away about what the film ...

Discovering new voices in SFF writing is always exciting. Tor UK has acquired a new series from debut author Genevieve Cogman, the first in the series being The Invisible Library, due out in ebook form on December 18th, 2014 and in ...

When I first heard about Snowpiercer I was excited. Who wouldn’t be? It’s a post-apocalyptic science fiction film with Captain America (Steve Rogers, wait no, I mean Chris Evans), and is based on a French comic book, Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob! What’s not ...

The story of The Imitation Game is (for the most part) a true story. Turing and his team worked on breaking the code of Enigma – an encoding machine used by the Germans for all of their radio transmissions during ...

I’m one of those irritating people that had not only never heard of the books before the film, and didn’t read the books until after I’d seen the first of the films. Since then, I’ve been an avid fan. I’m ...

Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine were first introduced to readers in the classic Vertigo series Sandman back in 1990 as part of the ‘Seasons of Mist’ collection. It is there that the characters meet for the first time. When hell ...

I am a massive SFF geek, as well as loving science (when I was at university, my main bus journey reading material was the latest issue of New Scientist). Having more hard science fiction epics at the cinema, especially those ...

Back in 2012, Joanne Graham won the Luke Bitmead Bursary for her debut novel, the largest bursary for unpublished writers in the UK, run by Legend Press. Lacey’s House received a lot of praise and made its way to the ...