In the run-up to the Oscars, here’s a short comic strip (five pages, a tea-break read) about the perils of accepting accolades you don’t deserve. Script by Eddie Robson (who writes for Shiny Shelf, when he gets the chance, and is building a website here), artwork by Marc Robinson (more about him here).
Start reading here [...]
Todd Haynes’ latest love letter to Sirkian Hollywood melodrama, ‘Mildred Pierce’, suggests melodrama should get a restraining order.
Despite what Disney cartoons and breakfast cereals may have taught us, animals cannot talk.
‘Ghost Protocol’ makes no bones about where it stands: it is an action movie through and through.
The New 52 hits UK newsagents with an anthology featuring Justice League, Action Comics and Green Lantern.
Nucky Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi) sums up his role in the ‘Boardwalk Empire’ with one line to his protégé Jimmy Darmody (relative newcomer Michael Pitt), ‘You wanna be a gangster in my town, then you’ll pay me for the privilege.’
That’s who Nucky is – he’s Atlantic City’s political boss, not its crime boss. Well, [...]
Tsui Hark’s Tang Dynasty detective story is a thrilling adventure, though for western viewers the mystical elements make the mystery a little hard to follow.
Ironically, considering its premise is that there’s a separate ‘London Below’ entirely unseen by the denizens of the normal, everyday capital, ‘Neverwhere’ seems to have slipped over from a parallel reality.
Broadcast in the mid 90s on BBC2, during a period when British TV didn’t make really make any fantasy or SF shows, its a real [...]
After the second episode of the second series of Downton Abbey, some viewers complained that the show was moving too quickly. The narrative jumped five months, going from November 1916 to April 1917, and many were wrong-footed by the rush of time. Yet people seemed to think this was somehow different from the first series. [...]
I have to admit I was never the greatest fan of Tintin comics or the classic animated series, but even a casual knowledge of them makes it obvious this film does a disservice to both.
In the run-up to the Oscars, here’s a short comic strip (five pages, a tea-break read) about the perils of accepting accolades you don’t deserve. Script by Eddie Robson (who writes for Shiny Shelf, when he gets the chance, and is building a website here), artwork by Marc Robinson (more about him here).
Start reading here [...]
Todd Haynes’ latest love letter to Sirkian Hollywood melodrama, ‘Mildred Pierce’, suggests melodrama should get a restraining order.
Despite what Disney cartoons and breakfast cereals may have taught us, animals cannot talk.
‘Ghost Protocol’ makes no bones about where it stands: it is an action movie through and through.
The New 52 hits UK newsagents with an anthology featuring Justice League, Action Comics and Green Lantern.
Nucky Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi) sums up his role in the ‘Boardwalk Empire’ with one line to his protégé Jimmy Darmody (relative newcomer Michael Pitt), ‘You wanna be a gangster in my town, then you’ll pay me for the privilege.’
That’s who Nucky is – he’s Atlantic City’s political boss, not its crime boss. Well, [...]
Tsui Hark’s Tang Dynasty detective story is a thrilling adventure, though for western viewers the mystical elements make the mystery a little hard to follow.
Ironically, considering its premise is that there’s a separate ‘London Below’ entirely unseen by the denizens of the normal, everyday capital, ‘Neverwhere’ seems to have slipped over from a parallel reality.
Broadcast in the mid 90s on BBC2, during a period when British TV didn’t make really make any fantasy or SF shows, its a real [...]
After the second episode of the second series of Downton Abbey, some viewers complained that the show was moving too quickly. The narrative jumped five months, going from November 1916 to April 1917, and many were wrong-footed by the rush of time. Yet people seemed to think this was somehow different from the first series. [...]
I have to admit I was never the greatest fan of Tintin comics or the classic animated series, but even a casual knowledge of them makes it obvious this film does a disservice to both.
