So it’s the end of the world – like the actual asteroid about to crush New York City end of the world (no zombies or viral plague thank goodness) – and life hangs in the balance, with only your teddy bear and some peanut brittle to provide any form Continue Reading
Book review: The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence
If you’ve ever had the feeling that your life isn’t your own, that the life you’re living is just a little bit off-kilter, than you’ll find a lot to identify with in Gavin Extence’s second novel, The Mirror World of Melody Black. Creatively-titled since the titular character isn’t the Continue Reading
Brienne and Tormund in love: GoT’s cute new couple imagined as a 90s rom-com duo
Even in Game of Thrones, a show not exactly noted for its love stories or the longevity of those that somehow manage to fall in love in between scheming and plotting, death and explosive moments, it is possible for Cupid to get a look in. He may not get Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Sound the Alarm” (S2, E5 review)
*SPOILERS … AND A WHOLE LOT OF ABBIES INTENSITY GOING ON* So we witnessed the first strike for Abbies equality this week when it was revealed, via a neat sequence at the end of the episode, that all the males of the species are controlled, drone-like, by the females Continue Reading
What is the nature of your reality? Westworld plays with your conceptions
SNAPSHOT The one-hour drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can Continue Reading
Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence
Good lord but Earth continues to be popular with the invading aliens crowd doesn’t it? And it’s not like they just visit the one time; in Independence Day: Resurgence, Roland Emmerich’s bigger-than-galactic-Ben-Hur follow-up to 1996’s Independence Day everyone’s favourite hive mind aliens are back and this time they’ve bought Continue Reading
Don’t cry for me Eurovision: Leonie Sii’s tips for coping with post-event depression
One thing that I discovered fairly quickly when I began watching the Eurovision Song Contest is that it’s impossible to simply view it and feel nothing. You either loathe and detest it (yes there are people out there that do believe it or not), or adore it and love Continue Reading
Now this is music #70: Broods, Foreign Air, Makelove, Sizzy Rocket, Yoke Lore
Life is way too short to be beholding to unhealthy attitudes, other people’s suffocating opinions or playing it too safe. So these five artists, with songs as animalistic and forceful and yet engagingly attractive and listenable as the subject matter they convey go some way to getting you to Continue Reading
The Girl With All the Gifts: Welcome to your zombie future humanity (trailer)
SNAPSHOT The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries”. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children Continue Reading
Book review: The Trees by Ali Shaw
When we think of the apocalypse or dystopian futures, our minds usually go to scenes of the undead pursuing the living with flesh-craving resolve, giant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, or cities rife with grime and decay, poverty and despair. They do not, however, entertain visions of Continue Reading