Last year, I was honoured to interview the Queen of Cyberpunk herself, Pat Cadigan, at FantasyCon. During the course of the interview, she recounted an anecdote about a reader who told her she wanted to read Synners. While the book ...
Read More »Darkest Hour
Ah, awards season. I know that stench anywhere. It is now the time of the year where the preliminary awards ceremonies are kicking off. These will firm up the frontrunners for the major ceremonies in February. Because the members of ...
Read More »Dunkirk: You can almost see it from here…
400,000 soldiers stranded on a beach just across the coast from Britain. Germans forever hovering around the perimeter, aircraft picking them off, and the Navy unable to send enough ships to get everyone home. Christopher Nolan tackles one of the ...
Read More »The X-Men Franchise: The Industry Explosion
Part 2 of our 4 part series on the X-Men franchise and its impact on comics and the film industry. X-Men came out in 2000. The following years saw an industry explosion of Marvel films produced by a variety of ...
Read More »Interstellar: Mankind’s next step will be our greatest
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 ...
Read More »It’s Batman’s 75th Birthday! Some of Batman’s best moments in print
This July marks the 75th anniversary of Batman. ‘Batman Day’ will be celebrated by DC Comics and Warner Brothers Studios on July 23rd with a re-release of the original Detective Comics issue that featured the first ever story of Batman ...
Read More »Matthew McConaughey: A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anybody
Matthew McConaughey has been around for more than 20 years, gracing our screens with his chiseled features and lovely Texan twang. But only recently has he really been given the roles and recognition he deserves. I’m not ashamed to admit ...
Read More »The battle of the superheroes: Marvel vs. DC
When people think of comic books, they tend to think of DC and Marvel. The big names from the golden age who gave us such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Captain America. For over a decade, ...
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