John Mosby

  • Coronavirus: Window of Opportunity – could VOD beat COVID-19?

    If, just a few weeks ago,  you’d asked an industry insider if major Hollywood studios might release their tentpole blockbusters to the VOD (video-on-demand) platforms instead of multiplexes you’d have been met with scorn. Each year the film industry and the cinema chains bring in billions as people gather...
  • Original Synth: Picard’s team prove no match for flower-powers……

    By way of sub-space speeding, the La Sirena arrives at Soji’s home-planet, one that she now recalls is called ‘Coppelius’ . Unfortunately… they’ve been followed by Narek. Fortunately… they’ve also been followed by Seven of Nine and Elnor aboard the restored Borg cube and so a fire-fight begins above...
  • Westworld III’s ‘Parc Domine’ seeks dominion outside the park…

    The parks owned by the Delos corporation appear to be in turmoil. The massacre of its clients mean the venues appear to be closed for good and the company’s fortunes in doubt. As the outside world assesses the damage, those invested in technological frontiers contemplate the implications… and the...
  • Bond Vs Bond: There’s No Time to Die, but plenty of time to read…

    Over the years, Paul Simpson has written and performed editing duties on a vast number of books and magazines, demonstrating a depth of knowledge across an equally impressive range of pop-culture essentials. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that his latest tome – actually an updated edition of 2015’s ...
  • Walking Dead’s ‘Walk with Us’: From Alpha to Omega…

    Alpha’s attack on the Hilltop has been devastating. As the buildings burn and the dead advance, there are casualties as the inhabitants find themselves divided from each other and each desperately trying to withdraw to an agreed rendezvous.  But the woods beyond the walls remain treacherous and no-one is...
  • Picard’s Broken Pieces is not quite sum of its parts…

    As the crew of La Sirena argue about their next move, it seems that the broken pieces of their relationships will have to be mended quickly rather than perfectly. As understandable distrust keeps its foothold, it’s time for some frank conversations, stark confessions and revelations about the past. Meanwhile...
  • Coronavirus: The Global Shutdown continues (13th March)…

    With people more concerned with their health than entertainment, it’s still compelling to show the impact being made on a cultural level as the coronavirus and the need for ‘social distancing’ affects businesses and events for months to come… In the US, restrictions and changes to personal and industry-behaviour...
  • Coronavirus: Self-Isolating Hollywood pulls more major releases…

    Film-releases are probably the least thing to be worrying you when the news is filled with viral announcements of the wrong kind.  But there has been notable fall-out in that industry. Though the word ‘Coronavirus‘ did not appear in their press-release, it seemed that the pandemic situation was a...
  • Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for rape and abuse…

    In a landmark ruling,  the previously-powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to twenty-three years in prison for a series of incidents involving his treatment of women over several decades. Though he was a guiding hand in hundreds of the most top-rated movies over that time, he had a...
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