John Mosby

  • New York, Old Tricks? The Alienist’s state of mind…

    When a young child’s body is found on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge circa late 1800s,  it’s clear that a heinous murder has taken place. The boy, dressed as a girl and thought to be one of the young prostitutes at a local brothel and has been found with his...
  • Sum of its ‘Counterpart’ – a superior twin dilemma…

    Howard Silk ( J K Simmons) is a lowly information-shuffler in an anonymous UN governmental building in an oppressive European regime in a world that’s like our own but greyer, hollower and ruled by the kind of remits that would make George Orwell get a paper-cut.  Each day he...
  • The Coulrophobia* of Money. Why ‘IT’ was a hit…

    1986: Young Georgie Denbrough is not the first child to go missing in the township of Derry, Maine… nor will be be the last. However, in a community scarred by the loss of some of their young, it is ironically a group of loners who start to feel the...
  • A Brine Romance: ‘The Shape of Water’ is Amphabulous…

    Eliza Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives a lonely life – dividing her time between her apartment above an old movie theater, doughnut breaks with neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and her lowly job as a cleaner at a research facility hidden deep beneath Baltimore. She’s almost reconciled to the fact that...
  • ‘Hard Sun’: A Ziggy-zagged thriller with a certain flare…

    Police officer Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) is attacked in her own home. She knows her assailant but he shows her little mercy, savagely beating her, stabbing her and leaving her for dead in her burning kitchen. Eighteen months on, having barely survived the incident, Renko is back on the...
  • UFO! DNA! FBI! WTF??? Why the latest X-Files is DOA…

    Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is rushed to hospital after having a seizure and neither Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) nor Assnt. Director Skinner (Mitch Pillegi) have any idea what’s wrong. Even the doctors are mystified by the activity that appears to be going on inside her head. When she...
  • Ripping Yarn: ‘Limehouse Golem’ stages a bloody tale…

    London in the late 1800s, a few years before Jack the Ripper will cut his way through the back-streets. But another monster is already there, apparently randomly murdering men, women and children and nicknmaed the ‘Limehouse Golem’ by the local rags. It’s a moniker the killer seems to have...
  • Doctor Who: (Christmas) Time, Gentlemen, please…?

    The South Pole is a cold place to meet one’s fate, but two incarnations of the same Time Lord find themselves unexpectedly thrown together as they each ponder their lives and future.  But they are not the only ones there… a soldier who last remembers being on a battlefield...
  • The Sound

    ‘Sound’ advice: Avoid this trick or trope ‘horror’…

    Kelly Johansen (Rose McGowan) is a blogger who specialises in debunking the supernatural. As tech-smart as she is snarky, she uses  sophisticated audio  technology to spot possible causes and then relaying her findings to her grateful audience. Receiving an anonymous heads-up about a haunted subway station in Toronto, she...
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