Community first aired back in 2009 on NBC. The sitcom quickly drew a very loyal audience, though the audience never grew to the size the studio hoped for. When I came to Community, it was already mid-way through its second ...
Read More »Fantasy novelist? Me? The debate around The Buried Giant
Man Booker prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has got a new novel out, The Buried Giant, which is causing something of a furore in literary circles. The battle is on the much-contested grounds of genre and is proving a classic example ...
Read More »On grieving for the famous: A tribute to Terry
Pain. Loss. Grief. Sorrow. Anger. Disbelief. These are not the emotions you usually expect to be bombarded with on your social media. But that was what was rolling over the internet yesterday as news broke of the death of Sir ...
Read More »What to expect from the CW’s iZombie
iZombie was a creator owned comic series for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics that ran from 2010 to 2012. On March 17th, a TV series adaptation of the comic book will begin airing on the CW, the same network ...
Read More »Agent Carter is proof we’re ready for a female superhero film
The brilliant first season of Marvel’s Agent Carter finished last week and I’m still on a high from it. It was one of the best single seasons of television I have ever seen. If you thought stakes couldn’t get any ...
Read More »The Backstreet Boys show us what they’re made of
There was only ever one boy band for me. I wasn’t into NSYNC, 98 Degrees, Five, Blue, or Boyzone, but the Backstreet Boys were something else. They have sold over 130 million records and are the highest-selling boy band of ...
Read More »Hard questions: What makes a great writer? What makes a great novel?
When I hear people fawn over their favourite writers or novels I often notice giant blind spots mixed in with their idolization. That isn’t to say there is necessarily a problem with that, no one should need to justify their ...
Read More »BAFTA 2015: The Dirge of Awards
Here in the UK, the BAFTAs just rolled around and it seems a fitting time to dissect the awards season. In some ways the British Academy Awards act as a prelude to the Oscars, alongside other non-American film ceremonies, and ...
Read More »Fifth Element’s future: What we want, what we don’t, and what was just plain wrong
2015 marks the year that Marty McFly visited the future. There has been a flurry of articles doing the rounds on what the film predicted accurately and what it didn’t. Having recently watched one of my favourite science fiction films ...
Read More »Why science fiction and fantasy works deserve more accolades
Urusla Le Guin’s speech at the National Book Awards last year reminded me of the long-standing snobbery when it comes to genre fiction, especially SFF (if you haven’t seen her speech, you can watch it here). When I first started ...
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