Frank Herbert’s Dune has a turbulent history with the visual media. Published in 1965, the novel quickly acquired a cult following among counter-culture types due to its trippy prose and drug-taking analogies, but it was considered unfilmable. In 1970, fresh … Continue reading Dune: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! M. Night Shyamalan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inconsistent directors. In a career with more peaks and troughs than a pig farm in the Andes, he’s directed everything from solid gold classics like The Sixth Sense … Continue reading Old: Review
Warning: Major spoilers! For people who’ve seen the movie’s eyes only! The James Bond franchise is not like Star Trek or Doctor Who; it has no internal canonicity as such. There are pockets of continuity, usually within the era of … Continue reading No Time to Die: Review
Warning: contains spoilers. This movie has been a long time coming. So long in fact that the proposed first female-led superhero movie of the modern era has been easily overtaken by DCU’s Wonder Woman (et seq) and MCU’s own Captain … Continue reading Black Widow: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Wonder Woman trashed all the DC Comics movies of recent years at the box office, exceeding the earnings of its nearest rival Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice by almost a quarter. This might … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984: Review
When Warner Brothers, owners of DC Comics, decided to create an extended superhero universe to rival that of Marvel Studios, they brought in Zack Snyder, who brought with him the same dark ethic he had employed on 2009’s Watchmen. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers We are used to superhero movies being BIG. The action is BIG, the army of bad guys our heroes face off against is BIG and the amount of collateral damage caused in their inevitable CGI punch-up … Continue reading The New Mutants: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Many ‘fans’ had judged Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker before they even saw a second of footage. As someone who grew up with Star Wars, I find the toxicity that has infected the fan-base a bitter … Continue reading Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker: Review
I grew up in the 1970s and, as such, I was obsessed with posters. If you were a kid in the 70s or 80s and every inch of your bedroom wasn’t covered with posters of the Fonz, Star Wars, the … Continue reading Excalibur: A Dream to Some, a Nightmare to Others!
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