Money doesn’t buy everything. It can’t buy you respect, love, or happiness…but it can buy you something so horrendously grotesque that it’ll make any guests you have shrivel up their nose in disgust, as if they’ve smelt the corpse of a deceased family pet and can now see it stretched …
Read More »Do you belong in the Scooby Gang? Stake out our ultimate Buffy the Vampire Slayer quiz
Could I be a vampire slayer? It’s the sort of question only a show like Buffy could ever inspire us to ask ourselves, and it’s probably on your mind once again now that the much beloved TV series turns 21 this Saturday. While we’ve all thought about joining the Scooby Gang …
Read More »6 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 8, episode 10 – The Lost and the Plunderers
I can’t tell you how delighted I am that The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) has managed to stay consistently good for two consecutive episodes. At this point, that’s nothing short of a televisual miracle and, as a long-time viewer, it feels practically euphoric. There were bumps …
Read More »Jessica Jones season 2 reminds us why we love the troubled hero, but Kilgraves absence is the elephant in the room
Everyone’s favourite alcoholic superhero is back on March 8 as Jessica Jones season 2 hits Netflix worldwide. While we got a good dose of the sarcastic PI-turned-reluctant hero back in August with The Defenders (opens in new tab), it feels like her second solo outing has been a long time …
Read More »5 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 8, episode 9 – Honor
The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) is back and, better yet, surprisingly half decent! Following a string of tiresome instalments over the Autumn, this week’s mid-season premiere suggests AMC are getting The Walking Dead train back on track (read my episode 9 review (opens in new tab) …
Read More »Netflix’s Altered Carbon is Blade Runner meets Black Mirror with Westworld’s morality thrown in
“The first thing you’ll learn is that nothing is what it seems…” This is the opening line of the first episode of Altered Carbon and it couldn’t be more apt. Its true that given the popularity of sci-fi dystopian series and the trend for body-swapping stories, you might think you …
Read More »5 spoiler-free reasons why Get Out is the best horror movie of 2017
2017 has been an incredible year for horror. IT (opens in new tab), Raw (opens in new tab) and Annabelle: Creation were all horrifically wonderful surprises but Jordan Peele effortlessly snared the horror movie of the year back in March with Get Out. In his directorial debut, Peele, the writer …
Read More »Is it just me, or is The Clone Wars TV show better than the original Star Wars trilogy?
Before you reach for your blaster so you can shoot first, hear me out. Yes, the original Star Wars trilogy is stunning. Three basically perfect films (even Return of the Jedi) that are everything the prequels aren’t – clever, cool, and full of charismatic creatures. And I’m definitely not making …
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