In the best of all possible worlds, biopics should be the most personal and affecting of film genres. After all, they tell the story, either whole or in part, of some extraordinary person’s life – their highs and lows, triumphs and defeats, an exemplar of humanity writ large for us to Continue Reading
Now this is music #52: Myami, FMLYBND, Joywave, Dive In, KLOË
There’s just one thing to say with this latest selection of songs – DANCE! Seriously cast aside the woes and travails of the week, get up on the dancefloor and lose yourself in the music. That doesn’t mean though that you have to put your brain in neutral. All five of Continue Reading
The many TV children of Orphan Black #SDCC
It goes without saying (but you know I ‘m going to say it anyway) that Orphan Black is a freakishly amazingly good, nay GREAT show. Coming complete with a gripping conspiracy-laced narrative that intelligently dissects the modern moral and ethical conundrum of genetic science, and the mesmerisingly good performances Continue Reading
Schlock horror seafood! Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
There are classic films beloved by millions, lionised by critics the world over, films that have come to define cinema as we know it … And then there is Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf, the latest in the ridiculously popular Sharktopus franchise – it follows Sharktopus (2010) and Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda Continue Reading
Movie review: Paper Towns
A perennial complaint by readers of a beloved book brought to the big screen is that “The movie is nothing like the book!” And while by necessity that is always going to be the case, some books make the transition to the big screen in far better shape than Continue Reading
“Because Convention Man doesn’t sound as cool”: Con Man’s gloriously funny first trailer
SNAPSHOT Con Man follows the comic convention adventures of fandom-favorite (but pigeonholed and a bit washed up) Wray Nerely, played by Tudyk, and his best friend Jack Moore (Fillion), who of course went on to super stardom. They starred in the one-season-and-done fictional sci-fi series “Spectrum” (just pronounce that Continue Reading
Zombies, zombies everywhere: Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead S6 drop full-length trailers
We are about to overrun by even more zombies than normal, people. Not content with walkers/rotters rambling blighted streets in their hundreds – the opening episode of The Walking Dead season 6 will reportedly feature 654 zombies all doing their undead shuffling thing at once – we will now get Continue Reading
Oh my Toto! Avengers of Oz: Age of Tinman
It’s entirely possible when you were in the movie theatre watching Avengers: Age of Ultron that you did not think of mashing Marvel’s latest blockbuster with one of the greatest films of all time, 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. But thank the movie gods, YouTube user and mash-up artist Continue Reading
“I would choose the king”: Neko Case’s beautiful song “Wild Creatures” reimagined as stunning comic book art
It’s not all that often that beautiful songs find themselves recreated as a exquisitely-realised piece of comic book art, which is a pity when you think about it because the two share of the same richly-descriptive DNA. Some, realised Sean Edgar of Paste Magazine one cold December morning in Continue Reading
“Density” calls! Back to the Future is back … as a comic book series!
Happy birthday Back to the Future! The much-loved, near-perfect trilogy, crafted by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, about one young man, his idiosyncratic Professor friend and a time-traveling DeLorean, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – the first film came out in 1985 – and to celebrate IDW is Continue Reading