The wait is over! After all the speculation and anticipation following Matt Smith’s announcement that he would be leaving Doctor Who after this year’s Christmas special, the new Doctor has finally been unveiled, and it is…. PETER CAPALDI! He’s an interesting choice for the role, as since the series’ return to our screens in 2005 […]
At the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, director Zack Snyder revealed that the upcoming sequel to his Superman reboot Man of Steel (reviewed here) will in fact be a Superman/Batman crossover. Predictably, such a huge announcement immediately triggered a deluge of blogs and articles speculating about the new film’s chances of success, ranging in tone […]
Pacific Rim is a hugely enjoyable (if flawed) film which does a better job than Michael Bay of putting giant robots on the big screen, while at the same time paying homage to Japanese monster movies and manga/anime series like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Although dominated by the awesome spectacle of towering machine men waging war […]
As it approached the end of its most recent season, HBO’s Game of Thrones began to attract more vociferous criticism for its lack of non-white actors. The series’ main characters are overwhelmingly presented as pale-skinned, a casting choice which has often led to accusations of orientalism, and one which has also characterised (to varying degrees) […]
Jonny looks back on the British horror film which became an instant classic of the genre…. An all-to-common theme running through the horror genre is to have pretty girls and hunky guys get their kits off and show just enough flesh to maintain a 15 certificate, before they’re horribly butchered by a bad guy, in […]
Jonny revisits a cult horror film starring Zach Galligan and David Warner, and discovers whether it’s actually any good…. The back of the DVD case describes Waxwork as “The Rocky Picture Show-meets-House of Wax” and in some ways it’s right (there is a house of wax central to the plot), but in many more it’s […]