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  • Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall: Who’s life less Fjordinary…

    If the soil and plants – and their taste – are anything to go by, the Doctor is relieved that the Tardis has arrived back on Earth in contemporary times, even if it seems to have taken a diversion to Norway. When a seemingly deserted cottage attracts their attention,...
  • 100% Blade: Adult Swim is set to do a ‘Runner’…

    Though it divided critics at the time of its release in 1982, Blade Runner has gone on to be considered by many as one of the most stylistic science-fiction films in the genre’s entire history. Though it had a infamously troubled production, it consolidated Harrison Ford’s post-Star Wars credentials...
  • The Nun: Not with a bang but a wimple…

    The Conjuring franchise, the horror mythology loosely (sometimes very loosely) taking its cues from real people and events,  has had its ups and downs, including the main films, the Annabelle spin-off and now an origin story of sorts with The Nun. So far the franchise has been a mixture...
  • Grindelwald’s Crimes: more a magical misdemeanor…

    A year after his adventures in New York, circa late 1920s, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)’s brother Theseus (Callum Turner) hopes he can talk his sibling into formally joining the Ministry of Magic but Newt has no intention of taking sides in a climate that feels more like powerplay than...
  • The (Alien) Life Aquatic? ‘Avatar’ sequels wrap…

    It seems an age ago that Avatar made such a big splash at the box-office with James Cameron once again pushing the boundaries of technology to achieve his visions. It was actually 2009, so technically the industry probably has entered a new era since.  The story of humanity’s impact...
  • Latest ‘Who’ season to end in heat of ‘Battle’…

    It seemed we had to wait an age for the return of Doctor Who and even since Jodie Whittaker plummeted into a Sheffield train carriage there’s been far less information about upcoming episodes than there has been in recent years. But we’re now in the latter half of the...
  • Star Trek short ‘Calypso’ has magic in its moves…

    A life-pod drifts through turbulent space and after many months is picked up by a much larger craft: the USS Discovery. But the sole occupant of the pod finds himself in a sick-bay with no-one else around. Eventually a voice tells him his location and begins to supply his...
  • Disney plans second ‘Star Wars’ tv spin-off…

    We’ve had the trailers for trailers and now it looks like we’re getting prequels for prequels with the interesting news that one of the key characters featured in Star Wars: Rogue One is the central piece in yet another proposed Star Wars television series. Disney‘s Chairman and CEO Bob...
  • Reverie: Virtually strong but realistically gone…

    News came this week that NBC‘s summertime drama, Reverie had gone to that great Matrix in the sky, cancelled without a second season. Reverie‘s main problem was that after it’s one-line pitch of ‘Ex-cop helps people stuck in virtual reality simulations‘, the potential was there to take it in...
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