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  • It’s (Mark) Millar Time: Netflix announces new slate…

    Mark Millar has long been the wunderkind of the comics community. His work might not be to everyone’s tastes and he’s proven a deft hand at deliberately courting controversy and infamy with well-managed stunts and Olympic-level self-promotion, but his comics have, without question, taken tried-and-tested comic-book formulas and given...
  • Apocalypse, Meh: ‘How it Ends’ is a road to nowhere…

    Seattle-based Will (Theo James) and his fiancée Samantha  (Kat Graham) have just found out she’s expecting their baby. When Will is on a business trip to Chicago, he decides to visit Sam’s parents and formally tell them the couple are planning to get married. Sam’s mother (Nicole Ari Parker)...
  • GOD, VOD, Netflix and Chill. Lucifer rises again…

    Though there are notable exceptions over the decades the general rule of thumb in TV-land is that once a series is cancelled, it stays cancelled. Fan-power has been known to save a handful of shows, but networks and executives tend to look at whether a show is profitable or...
  • From ‘Fargo’ to ‘Cargo’, Freeman goes walkabout…

    Andy (Martin Freeman), his wife Kay (Susie Porter) and their infant daughter Rosie drift down the Murray River in Southern Australia in a small houseboat – keeping well away from the banks and the dangers that the barren wastelands on each side offer. The world has gone to hell,...
  • Hit and Swiss: Lost in Space’s Robinsons get revamped…

    As part of an exodus to another star-system, the Jupiter 2 is a shuttle that abandons a space-station hub but finds itself separated from the other shuttles and one of the few to survive crash-landing on a unclassified, unexplored planet below.  The Jupiter 2’s crew are the Robinsons –...
  • Cloverfield: Event (Horizon) TV gets Super-Bowled over…

    High above the Earth a space-station valiantly tries to get its energy-source and particle beam working, hoping that it will put an end to the geo-political tensions on the planet below. Time after time, those efforts fail and the crew, still in space after two years of what was...
  • 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,...
  • 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...
  • 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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