This was one of those cheap offers I saw in Sainsbury’s and thought “I like the X-Men, let’s give it a bash.” About a year later, we finally got around to watching it, hooray! Except, boo. I was put in a bad mood almost instantly, since we first sat through “Jim and Bob compare pirate …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – The Naked Now
Another episode autopsy! And also the first that isn’t a two-part episode. As usual, some massive spoilers in this one. In this episode, the crew contract a virus that first appeared in the Original Series that gets the crew drunk. Overall, they make very few scientific statements (unlike later series) and it’s difficult to make …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – Encounter at Farpoint
So after starting at the end, let’s jump to the beginning! Encounter at Farpoint is a very different episode to Endgame, as the world we live in was a different place. There’s nearly two decades between the two episodes, and the loss of Gene Roddenberry and his particular vision for the future. Although it’s a …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – Endgame (part 2)
This blog post continues on from the previous one, where I began picking apart all the things that bothered me about the final episode of Voyager. Again, I remind you that this is spoiler heavy! There’s more preamble in that post, so without further ado, let’s get on with it! Janeway and the Borg Oh, …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – Endgame (part 1)
I’ve had an idea for a while of reviewing and discussing Star Trek episodes. The original plan was that I would review the episodes in order, and go back to the beginning of The Next Generation and start from there. But we’ve been watching through every episode so far and just finished watching Voyager, and …
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Book Review – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I recently finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen (allegedly), which I’d found brand-new and mint condition in a charity shop for £1.50. That’s definitely worth a punt! Overall, I found it a good read. I have read the ‘original’, and even seen TV adaptations of it, but to …
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Unimaginative film posters
I saw a poster on the side of a bus the other day, advertising the film London Boulevard. I thought it looked a bit familiar… It’s almost identical to the poster for Quantum of Solace. Man standing protectively in front of woman, looking in different directions, no background details, gun held casually by the side, …
The Ginger Man
My reviews have spoilers. I make no apologies. In short – I hated it. The style was jarring at the beginning, and mellowed out but still messed around, mixing up third and first person perspectives – most of the third person writing was in the first 15-20% of the book, then it seemed to forget …
Film Autopsy – Hancock
Boiler-plate introduction warning: This film review is going to be heavy on spoilers. Move along if you’re not into that sort of thing. I will warn you to start with, I am a nit-picker of films. I will latch on to something and unravel it, and try and understand how the world of a film …
Film Autopsy – Surrogates
This film review is going to be heavy on spoilers. Move along if you’re not into that sort of thing. I will warn you to start with, I am a nit-picker of films. I will latch on to something and unravel it, and try and understand how the world of a film works. This often …