In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading
Females are STILL strong (and funny) as hell: Thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 3
Watching any episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is always a frothy, fun delight. Saturated in a cartoonish, often surreally colourful fashion, where the quirky and the everyday sit happily side-by-side, and populated by characters prone to pronouncements that make sense only to them (and yet somehow make sense Continue Reading
Book review: The Hot Guy by Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris
It hasn’t been easy being a romantic comedy fan of late. Ever since Meg Ryan, and later Sandra Bullock shuffled off their mortal rom-com coil, and to be honest not always even then, has this genre ever matched the giddy heights of the golden age of Hollywood when Gregory Continue Reading
Movie review: Alien Covenant
The act of creation is generally seen as a wholly positive thing, the beginning of new life, with the myriad possibilities that entails. But in Alien: Covenant, which more than successfully bridges the lacklustre Prometheus, and the later Alien films, it’s an altogether darker affair, one that strips creation bare Continue Reading