Disney has found a new way to make money and is running with it. I suppose I can’t really blame them for that, they are a business after all, but sooner or later the bottom will fall out – and ...
Read More »Way Down Dark by James Smythe
I enjoy a good dystopian YA thriller as much as the next Hunger Games fan, but there comes a point when I’ve got to say enough is enough. They have all become so samey. Once the initial depressing world is ...
Read More »Minions: On a quest to find the biggest, baddest villain they can
These cute yellow creatures are the Mr. Bean of children’s films. The film, a prequel to the other films in the Despicable Me franchise, is also an inverted equivalent to the Bean Movie. Where he was transplanted from England to ...
Read More »Call me da Vinci: Why shouldn’t we compare ourselves to the greats?
Oh, Kanye. Your clownish antics continue to keep us amused.The controversial rapper has done it again, comparing himself to da Vinci and Galileo, among others, much to the ire of the public. But if we divorce his buffoonish arrogance from ...
Read More »Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
Time Salvager is another SF novel that has been massively hyped before it even hit shelves. The book is due to publish on July 7th but has already been optioned for a film adaptation with Michael Bay signed on to ...
Read More »All-star voice cast for animated Chew adaptation
The Image Comics series Chew is set for an animated film adaptation helmed by director Jeff Krelitz (Torchwood: Web of Lies and Peter Panzerfaust). The popular and critically acclaimed comic is written by John Layman, who has also penned the ...
Read More »Binge watching: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
For a television series to make truly brilliant binge watching it has to be equal parts well written/produced/etc and guilty pleasure. That might, at first glance, seem contradictory. If it is a guilty pleasure, surely it couldn’t also be well ...
Read More »Entourage: One vagina closes just as another opens
With every year that passed following the HBO series’ successful 8-season run, an Entourage movie looked less and less likely. The series creator, Doug Ellin, completed a script for a feature film back in 2012, but the film suffered production ...
Read More »Passengers: Stand-alone scifi film confirmed by Sony
All hope for Hollywood might not be lost after all. Interesting stand-alone, big budget films are becoming a truly rare beast. Recently, Sony had been sitting on such a project, Passengers, umming and aahing over whether to green light the ...
Read More »Jurassic World: Your boyfriend’s a badass!
I am fed up with Hollywood churning out remakes and sequels of well-known franchises and previous hit films (and some flops even), but the latest incarnation of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World, has proved some of these franchises still ...
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