If there is one thing, among many to be honest, that I loved about Back to the Future films, it was its breathless, glittering expectation of what 2015 would look like. Way back in 1985, the film franchise, politely putting aside the complete and utter lack fulfilment of the Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “The Wolf Inside” (S1, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ENOUGH EXISTENTIAL ANGST TO KEEP FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS BUSY FOR DECADES … POSSIBLY CENTURIES … There are monsters lurking inside all of us. That deeply unpalatable truth is narratively front and centre in Star Trek Discovery‘s latest tour de force offering with Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) wrestling Continue Reading
Comic review: Rocko’s Modern Life (issues 1 & 2)
One of the great delights of Rocko’s Modern Life, one of the great cartoons of Nickolodeon’s ’90s line-up which is finding new life in comics and on the screen again, has always been its devotion to anarchic silliness. Taking a leaf out of the manic hilarity of Looney Tunes Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: High-flying Disney characters go distinctly lowbrow
Think of Disney, which is well on the way to becoming the entire entertainment industry, and you think of sweet, uplifting characters, great morality and an uplifting, often inspiring take on life. Ah but not if you’re French artist Giles Bousquet who has imagined what Disney’s many iconic characters Continue Reading
More Winona face please! Stranger Things gets an Honest Trailer
It would be obvious from even just a cursory glance at this blog that I love Stranger Things. It’s not just the nostalgia factor at work although I do love the myriad influences ranging from Spielberg to Alien, E.T. to Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons; it’s the fully Continue Reading
Oh how movie trailers have changed! A look at their evolution by @granger_willson
SNAPSHOT Movie marketing has always been an art form in and of itself, and movie trailers have now enticed audiences for more than a hundred years. With the passage of time, trailers have evolved from straightforward descriptions of films, to ominously voiced-over montages, to frenetic and spoiler-phobic teasers. Watch Continue Reading
Counterpart asks the intriguing question – what if life was different?
SNAPSHOT Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel Continue Reading
Book review: When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
Dylan Mint, the refreshingly honest protagonist of Brian Conaghan’s debut novel, When Mr Dog Bites, is a typical 16-year-old in many ways. He has a “best bud” named Amir, with whom he texts and discusses girls, life and the things they want to do to make it mean something, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Return of the Monster’s scary deja vu
Nightmares are scary – that much is obvious. But how much scarier are they when they loop over and over again, a ceaseless montage of freaky moments that repeat and repeat until you begin to wonder (a) What the hell was in that pizza I ate last night? and Continue Reading
Movie review: Call Me By Your Name
(image via IMP Awards) There is a heady agony and ecstasy to falling in love that most films fail to capture completely in its all conflicting glory. But Call Me By Your Name, an exquisitely beautiful film about love, longing and unfulfilled possibilities, manages to portray faithfully how love can Continue Reading