Simon Hynd is a director on the rise. This Edinburgh-based graduate of Napier University, and winner of a Scottish BAFTA (for Short Film in 2004) for Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid For Ultimate Bliss, is now a veteran television and commercials director, with one feature to his name: Senseless, a horror film adapted from the book of […]
With the recently confirmed news that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on dvd & blu-ray on April 8th, allow me to present to you a collection of reviews penned by the Geekzine alumni of Jim Taylor, Jonathan Taylor and Griff Williams. Andy Jamieson, Editor-in-Chief I found The Hobbit to be thoroughly enjoyable […]
Can you imagine an ancient city where one’s place in society was determined by an annual lottery? Or an infinite library containing every book that ever has been, or will be written? What about a fictional nation imagined into reality by a group of conspiring intellectuals, or a certain point in space-time from which one […]
Not many authors would name a science fiction novel after a fictional piece of classical music and none that I can think of would do it as well as Iain M. Banks. The Hydrogen Sonata is Banks’ tenth novel set within his Culture universe and it continues the tradition of one of the great modern […]
After the excellent animated adaptation of Room On The Broom (produced by the excellent Magic Light Pictures) aired on BBC1 over Christmas 2012, it is worth taking a look back at the original book (since I have been reading it to my daughter every night for a bout the past month). And, given that this […]
It doesn’t seem like exaggeration to suggest that we’re currently living in a golden age of TV drama. Shows like The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Treme, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and, more recently, The Following and The Newsroom have demonstrated that complex plots, thrilling action, stunning production design and A-list acting talent are no […]