• 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...
  • Morning Star: Walking Dead’s latest is a Game of Bones…

    Last week’s Walking Dead instalment was very much a classic slice of old-school horror and for the follow-up, the show is certainly not cranking down the tension. In fact, there’s so much duplicity and strategy, blood, sweat and tears in the mix that this feels more like a visit...
  • Picard’s nostalgic enterprise: You can go home again…

    Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) and Soji (Isa Briones) travel through the emergency portal and arrive on the planet of Nepenthe where they are greeted by a figure who appears to be a young girl in furs, out hunting in the woods. However appearances can be deceiving and soon the...
  • Dead Man Stalking: TWD’s latest has classic blood, sweat and tears…

    While one group of survivors has escaped the caverns – though with casualties – Alpha (Samantha Morton) is not wasting any time in making sure the people of Alexandria feel the wrath of the Whisperers. She sends Beta (Ryan Hurst) to track down the errant Gamma (Thora Birch), who...
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