• Noises off: Netflix’s ‘Silence’ adaptation is sadly tome deaf…

    When a caving group finally manage to enter a vast series of underground caverns, they think they’ve made a significant breakthrough, but instead they’ve initiated an historical breakout as a previously unknown breed of winged creatures pour out of the new opening and out in to the wider world. ...
  • Shiv and Let Die? Bleeding wonderful ‘Killing Eve’ returns…

    It’s barely a minute after UK intelligence analyst Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) skewered her quarry, the highly-financed, somewhat unbalanced assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer), an act which surprised both of them. Villanelle has fled her Paris apartment and Eve is close behind. Both narrowly avoid a trio of...
  • Twilight Zone: Less scare miles, more cabin pressure…

    The second Twilight Zone episode sees a reinterpretation of one of the classic show’s most memorable episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet – though now upped to 30,000… because, hey, inflation.  The original story saw airline passenger William Shatner becoming convinced that there’s a gremlin on the wing of the...
  • 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...
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