• Sum of its ‘Counterpart’ – a superior twin dilemma…

    Howard Silk ( J K Simmons) is a lowly information-shuffler in an anonymous UN governmental building in an oppressive European regime in a world that’s like our own but greyer, hollower and ruled by the kind of remits that would make George Orwell get a paper-cut.  Each day he...
  • ‘Hard Sun’: A Ziggy-zagged thriller with a certain flare…

    Police officer Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) is attacked in her own home. She knows her assailant but he shows her little mercy, savagely beating her, stabbing her and leaving her for dead in her burning kitchen. Eighteen months on, having barely survived the incident, Renko is back on the...
  • UFO! DNA! FBI! WTF??? Why the latest X-Files is DOA…

    Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is rushed to hospital after having a seizure and neither Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) nor Assnt. Director Skinner (Mitch Pillegi) have any idea what’s wrong. Even the doctors are mystified by the activity that appears to be going on inside her head. When she...
  • Doctor Who: (Christmas) Time, Gentlemen, please…?

    The South Pole is a cold place to meet one’s fate, but two incarnations of the same Time Lord find themselves unexpectedly thrown together as they each ponder their lives and future.  But they are not the only ones there… a soldier who last remembers being on a battlefield...
  • 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,...
  • Happy

    Crude Awakening: ‘Happy!’ will have audiences in spin…

    Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) was once a decorated cop but those days are long gone, brought down in an avalanche of missed chances, vices and dovetailing into a spiral of self-destruction. Now he’s a hitman for hire with the death-wish-whispering voice in his head not truly caring whether he...
  • Punisher

    View to a Skull: ‘Punisher’ proves rewarding…

    Frank Castle feels he has completed ‘dealing’ with the people responsible for the death of his family and has ‘retired’ to try and leave a so-called normal life. However the ghosts of the past, real or imagined,  won’t leave him alone –  and he’s about to find out that...
  • Oh, the Inhumanity. Marvel’s latest is sheer lunar-cy…

    While Inhumans have appeared on Earth in recent years, thanks to events in the Agents of SHIELD series, some of the original bloodline of the species have actually been living in a huge secret city – Atillan – on the dark side of the moon. But all is not...
  • Take ‘Note’: Netflix’s deadly reboot has culture-clash….

    Light Turner hasn’t had it easy… he’s a bright kid – so much so he ends up doing others’ homework for a fee – but never seems to be able to find his own place in the day to day world. Essentially a loner, he resents that his mother’s...
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