• Fallen Kingdom: Talking about a Devolution…

    The island of Isla Nubar is about to be destroyed by volcanic activity and despite pressure to save the surviving dinosaurs, the world seems to have decided that nature is putting right what man got wrong and that the creatures will be allowed to perish.  That sits perfectly well...
  • Howard grants ‘Solo’ a little Serenity…

    Han is a young man with a plan – several in fact – and all of them involve he and his companion Qi’ra getting off the backward planet of Correlia. But plans don’t always work out and though the skilled but errant flyboy manages to get off-world he’s forced...
  • Game On: Spielberg’s latest is ‘Ready’: Willing and able…

    It’s Ohio, 2045, though geography and time probably have little of importance as most people are focussed on the virtual-reality of the Oasis, a global network that offers an alternative to their often humdrum existence. Why go to a boring desk job if you can journey to any landscape,...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Claw & Order: Netflix’s latest: ‘Bright’ Lights, Bit Iffy…..

    In an alternative 2017 the modern world has many of our tried and tested problems – but with a twist. Over the last millennia, the magic world of Orcs, faeries, trolls and elves has become part of the social strata. Elves tend to be the high-flying successes at business,...
  • Justice League: The Mourning after the Fight Before…

    Superman is dead, killed at the hands of Doomsday and General Zod and leaving Bruce Wayne feeling somewhat responsible for his demise and the fight that preceded it. Believing that the entire planet may be facing an apocalyptic threat in the near future, Bruce and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)...
  • Thor Ragnarok

    Hit and Myth: Ragnarok’s Sturm und Am-Dram…

    Thor (Chris Hemsworth) hangs from the ceiling, captured in a net and relating his recent adventures to a skeleton who at least has the courtesy to have his jaw actually drop. But the God of Thunder’s imprisonment is quickly revealed as a ruse to bring him face to face...
  • Amazon Primed? Wonder Woman comes to DVD…

    For years the island of Themyscira has remained hidden, its population of immortal women living in what appears to be a paradise, but training for the day when, they believe the God of War, Ares, will have to be faced for the sake of all mankind. Diana (Gal Gadot)...
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