Review: Pain & Gain
Daniel Lugo deserves better. He wants a big fat slice of the American Dream yesterday. Daniel’s ripped and pumped, a personal trainer to the body beautiful and the ugly rich of Miami. He may look...
Category: Fantasy
Fall TV Preview
Autumn is rapidly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means my favourite season is almost upon me. It's not just the relief from the relentless heat and humidity that I'm looking...
Review: A Field in England
A Field In England Self proclaimed coward and alchemist’s assistant Whitehead cowers in a field. A battle rages just over the hedgerows, the God of War churns up dirt and sound. The English Civil...
Review: World War Z
Hunkered down with the living dead scraping at the door Brad Pitt’s Gerry Lane states, “Movement is life.” For over a decade that’s exactly what the Zombie genre has been doing, moving...
Companion Cannon Fodder: The Doctor Who Finale
Oh, gentle readers, do let’s discuss Clara the Impossible Girl and the thrilling or perhap insipid conclusion of the seventh season, which just aired on televisions ‘round the world. We were...
Preview: Rectify
Sundance is furthering its exploration into scripted dramas with Rectify, premiering 22 April. The drama revolves around Daniel Holden (Aden Young), a prisoner released from death row after spending...
The Daylight Gate: Jeanette Winterson Goes Horror
Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate. London: Arrow, 2012. Acclaimed English novelist Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is something of a curiousity. The book has been published by Arrow in...
Revisiting 666 Park Avenue
I find myself oddly mermerised by ABC’s 666 Park Avenue, something I really wasn’t expecting when I first started watching the series. The pilot suggested a run of the mill horror drama that...
Review: 666 Park Avenue
Sleepy Sundays no more; starting with Once Upon A Time, following with Revenge, and ending with 666 Park Avenue, ABC aims to keep viewers up past their bedtime this fall. 666 Park Avenue is the...
Review: Dredd
Mega City One is widescreen for 800 million people. Its streets are legion. 12 serious crimes every minute. 17,000 crimes a day. The law can only respond to 6% of them. Rotting unnoticed in a back...