Griff Williams, the newest operative to join the geekzine’s ongoing crusade, applies his literary scalpel to the latest Disney shopping binge…. If you’ve ever been to one of the Disney theme parks, chances are you’ll have at least seen, and more than likely ridden, Star Tours. For those not in the know, Star […]
The Horus Heresy series, published by the Black Library (Games Workshop’s burgeoning publishing arm) has gone from strength to strength since the release of the first book, Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, back in 2006. For those who don’t know, the HH series is set in the 31st Millenium, when the Imperium of Mankind, led […]
When CBS announced its plan to produce a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, the casting of Lucy Liu as a female Watson and the shift to a New York setting weren’t (despite the deluge of online negativity) particularly big problems for me. As details about the upcoming series emerged, the question uppermost in my mind […]
Next summer’s zombie blockbuster looks epic in scope, but will it do justice to its celebrated source material? After its original December release date was pushed back to June 2013 following two script re-writes and a reported seven weeks of re-shoots, internet doomsayers immediately began to predict that World War Z would be a cinematic […]
With their episodic, crisis-of-the-week approach to storytelling, you’d think that comic books would have found their natural visual media outlet in television, rather than in the numerous film adaptations which continue to net big bucks for major publishers like Marvel and DC. The wealth of elaborate backstory and character development in most long-running comics can […]
Skyfall Review [Spoiler-Free] by Griff Williams I went into Skyfall with cautiously high expectations, and I mean really high and really cautious. Casino Royale was, in my opinion, the best Bond movie (indeed, in my opinion, the only good Bond movie ever); it was mature, suspenseful and visceral, somehow managing to transcend the ‘classic’ series […]