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 […]
Hannah takes a look at renowned author Joanne Harris’ first foray into the fantasy genre…. Now, I’m not much of a fantasy/sci-fi reader, but having read several of Joanne Harris’ other novels (Chocolat etc), I was curious to see how she handled a different genre, and if she could persuade me to give it a […]
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 […]
Jonny rediscovers a classic horror manga from the ’70s, and finds it a mixed bag despite its towering reputation…. The Drifting Classroom, by Kazuo Umezu, was first serialised between 1972 and 1974 in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine – “Shonen” essentially translating as “for boys”. It instantly set the benchmark for Manga horror, and has […]
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 […]