Having never come across Foz Meadows before, I approached An Accident of Stars with a mixture of trepidation and nervous excitement. What if I’m about to read the next SFF classic? Well, when it comes to Foz Meadows’ latest, that might ...
Read More »Suicide Squad: The worst of the worst
I really wanted to love this film. I liked the trailers and I’m a fan of David Ayer as a filmmaker. It also has a great cast. When the negative reviews started to pour in, I refused to be caught ...
Read More »Not So Much, Said the Cat: A short story collection by Michael Swanwick
I have been making a concerted effort to read more short fiction. I’ve always struggled to read collections of short fiction in one chunk, finding that publishing on a weekly or monthly basis on-line the best way for me to ...
Read More »Jason Bourne: Why would he come back now?
Thank god we live in an age of digital film distribution because if Jason Bourne had come out in an earlier age, it would have been a horrific waste of celluloid. In the annals of unnecessary sequels, this probably won’t ...
Read More »The BFG: Snozzcumbers and frobscottle
As a dedicated Roald Dahl fan, I was always going to hold Spielberg to a high standard with his latest outing: an adaptation of The BFG. There’s a very mixed and sprawling track record of film adaptations of Dahl but ...
Read More »Star Trek Beyond: Plot contrivances, stating the obvious, and destroying the Enterprise (again)
… And yet still much better than the last two. Anyone familiar with me knows that I am a huge Star Trek fan. But yes, I’m one of these bastard snobs that doesn’t like the new films. Sorry, but they ...
Read More »Creep: Found footage done right
It’s pretty much accepted that the found footage subgenre is dead. What captivated me in The Blair Witch Project, started to annoy me in Paranormal Activity 2 and outright bored me in Cloverfield. The shaky cam, the jolt to a ...
Read More »Monstress: To quote the poets… we’re fucked
Despite comics being a very visual medium, it is rare that I see the cover of one and think ‘I HAVE TO READ THAT.’ But that is exactly how I felt with Monstress. Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda’s fantasy ...
Read More »Ghostbusters: Very hard to wash off
There’s been misogynist uproar, there’s been apprehension over the ability of the film to live up to the lauded original, and then there’s been horror at the quality of the first trailer. Now Ghostbusters has landed and I wish I ...
Read More »The Legend of Tarzan: Wherein the hero replicates the mating calls of animals
It has been some time since I have seen a film so dedicatedly embarrassed by its own premise. I fear that the reluctance with which The Legend of Tarzan rolls out its jungle-swinging sequences is a sign that no one ...
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