If you were to judge Guillermo del Toro’s first venture into the currently burgeoning world of television, The Strain (based on the 2009 trilogy of horror novels he penned with Chuck Hogan) on its constituent building blocks alone, you could’ve forgiven for wondering how the show has attracted the Continue Reading
Movie review: Guardians of the Galaxy
There is no denying that Marvel is a modern cinematic force of nature. Through film after stupendously successful, box office-dominating film such as those of Thor, Captain America or Iron Man or the grandaddy of them all The Avengers, the studio begat by Stan Lee’s sprawling comic book empire Continue Reading
If I were a captain: Firefly Online beckons fans to be a part of its ‘verse
I can still hear her anguished cry echoing across my living room (which is reasonably big so there was sort of a kind of echo … anyway it was dramatic trust me!). After talking talking non-stop for months on end about the brilliance of Joss Whedon‘s epic space opera Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Door Number Three (S4, E6 review)
The quiz show alluding-title aside, Falling Skies was this week less like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy – “What is a destructive, genocidal, invasive alien species for $50 please Alex?” – or any TV game of chance to be honest, than it was a replay of every bad Christmas Continue Reading
Come and play … Sesame Street’s 45th season trailer is A-OK!
Happy 45th season Sesame Street! Why it seems just like yesterday that I was a 4 1/2 year old kid, freshly returned from Bangladesh in 1970, discovering the delights of television and specifically the enduring delights of a program barely a year old itself – Sesame Street. Premiering on Continue Reading
Now this is music #34: Marz Leon, VÉRITÉ, Ibeyi, Zola Jesus, Moxie Raia
Let’s hear it for the thrill of new music! But not just any old “new” music, grabbed just because it happens to be close and within downloadable reach. Rather as we throw out the old, the tired and the has-been, purging our iPods of songs that have had their Continue Reading
When Peter met Homer: Family Guy and Simpsons join together for an hilarious crossover episode
Crossovers are curious creatures. While it is always a pleasure to see two shows you might love come together – this is not always the case of course with many people usually being a fan of one or other of the two shows; Den of Geek does a superlative Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: The water-starved dystopian drama of Young Ones
SNAPSHOT Directed by Jake Paltrow, the dystopian Young Ones takes place in a future that’s almost totally devoid of water, which makes farming a difficult task for hardened frontiersman Michael Shannon and his two children, played Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Once Fanning’s boyfriend Nicholas Hoult sets his sights Continue Reading
When trouble strikes friends stack together: The Boxtrolls enchantingly detailed new poster
SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading
(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: Hilary Thomas, author of the novelette “Knave”
This is the third in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. The publication of Hilary Thomas’s evocative novelette “Knave” Continue Reading