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Fifty years after the UK – and possibly the world – began to encounter angry and dangerous spirits, some defenses and protocols against the restless dead have been found. Children – who can see and hear the ‘Visitors’ more than adults – find themselves more attune and if they...
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Why Aren’t You Watching: Extraordinary Attorney Woo… A legal procedural is nothing new on the schedules and it’s equally true that South Korea has seen a surge in shows that have achieved global appeal (Think The Squid Game as a recent example). Putting those two factors together might sound...
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Miles Bron is the king of social media, owning global business empires and enjoying it all, never afraid to go to extremes, knowing he’ll be indulged by all and sundry. But once a year he gathers a small cabal of influencers and associates around him for a weekend of...
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This week, rather unexpectedly, saw the drop of an extra Sandman episode on Netflix. Though it’s billed as a singular gift, it’s actually two stories – distinct in subject, tone and presentation, but each rather delightful and based on shorter, diversionary tales from Neil Gaiman’s original Vertigo/DC comics run...
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Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) has a problem. His estranged wife and daughter are tired of his unreliability and are thinking of moving away. Bud needs to find a better way to support them, but his business isn’t what it used to be. Bud appears to be an average pool-cleaner,...
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The start of the 20th Century and as the creature known as The Sandman/Dream/Morpheus is about to send an escaped nightmare back to the land of Dreaming, another all-too-mortal and ruthless man, scarred by the death if his first-born son and attempting capture ‘Death’… instead imprisons Dream. It will...
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Stranger Things success has been that perfect combination of nostalgia and marketing. The complaint that it homages, mines or outright steals from the material that was popular in the 1980s is undeniable – it has never made any secret of the reverence it has for that era and its...
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Evil may never be truly defeated, but it seems like the kids (and adults) of Hawkins may have triumphed for the time being. The Byers may have left town, but the ties that bind them to the town still remain strong, if stretched. However, a series of horrific deaths...
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Mickey Haller, once the rising star and enfant terrible of the legal world, has been having a bad time. An important case went south and a subsequent surfing accident left him hooked on Oxycodone… for over a year he’s faced a hard struggle back and is still reassessing whether...