• Herbie goes…Ballistic. How ‘Bumblebee’ transformed a franchise…

    On the other side of the galaxy, a war rages between two metallic races, the Autobots and the Decepticons – and the evil Decepticons are winning. In the midst of battle, Optimus Prime orders faithful servant B-127 to leave the battle and find safe haven, a forwarding scout for...
  • Posts Apocalyptic: Saluting the ‘Jugger’…

    Mad Max began a new lease of life for down and dirty action films and a new genre of science fiction: the post apocalyptic film. Many have tried to meet the target of Miller’s immense vision but equally many failed in the attempt. Some couldn’t find the originality or...
  • Discovery: ‘Valley of Shadows…’ casts impressive light…

    One of the red signals has appeared over a distant Klingon moon and while no-one knows what it means, Tyler is all too aware of its personal significance to him – it is the planetoid containing the monastery to which his son was spirited away to keep the Klingon...
  • Posts Apocalyptic: The ‘Mad Max’ journey…

    It’s one of the all-time greatest franchises and one that to this day still has scores of fans all around the world. We are talking about the one, the only Mad Max: the Australian franchise created in the late nineteen seventies by director George Miller and his producing partner...
  • A Peele into Nostalgia: Twilight Zone’s delivery sets modern stage…

    Stand-up comic Samir Wassan (Silicon Valley/The Big Sick‘s Kumail Nanjiani) is an earnest comedian but one whose material is more social-comment than laugh-inducing and he, his successful lawyer girlfriend Reena (Amara Karan) and the comedy club’s owner are beginning to think that Samir’s days on stage may be numbered....
  • ‘Chamber’: UK horror is White, Bored and past its cell-by date…

    White Chamber is one of those productions where you get to the end and the immediate thought is ‘That was  a bit of a waste of time, wasn’t it?‘ followed by a trying-to-be-positive ‘It probably looked better on paper‘. Well, maybe. There is, indeed, a nice idea ripe for...
  • Discovery: A Quantum Leap of Solace?

    The ‘Red Angel’ has been captured but there are conflicting ideas about the implications and what should be done next? Burnham wants to see her mother but a compromised Leyland (now under the influence of future AI ‘Control’) is telling everyone who will listen that if the future is...
  • ‘Hannah Grace’ possesses some De Rigueur Mortis scares…

    Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell)  is an ex-cop with something to prove, mainly to herself. After a tragedy at her previous job and overcoming an addiction to medication, she’s looking for an opportunity for something quieter and less risky. When her sponsor, Lisa (Stana Katic) who works in the local...
  • V for Vedette: Ambitious ‘Captive State’ is a hostage to its format…

    It’s nearly a decade after an alien invasion, one initiated by flashes of destruction, continued by stealth and validated by collusion.  The richest echelons of society have bribed their way to survival and are arguably going about their business just as before, but doing more to exploit the poor...
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