TV Review: Ash vs Evil Dead – Season 1, Episode 1: El Jefe (2015)
What took me so long? I was a fan of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series from a way too young age – though I was an adult when I saw […]
Comic Book Review: Misty & Scream 2020 Special
The spookiness doesn’t have to stop just because Halloween has come and gone, right? The nights are longer and darker, the air is cold and damp – surely it’s the […]
Comic Book Review: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1
I’ve been a fan of cyberpunk – that’s with a small ‘c’, as in the genre – since the late 80s, when the term first came to my attention. I’ve […]
Comic Book Review: Tammy & Jinty Special 2020
In my quest to cover all of the Specials that Rebellion publish in 2020, it’s inevitable that I would come across a few containing material unfamiliar to me. Tammy & […]
Review: Transformers/Back to the Future #1
As a fan of both 80s franchises since they first appeared, it’s great to see Transformers and Back to the Future combine during the 35th anniversary of the time travel […]
Comic Book Review: Invasion From Planet Wrestletopia #1
In the early 90s, I was absolutely obsessed with the brilliantly OTT action and storylines found in American wrestling and would eagerly watch as much as I could find of […]
Film Review: Mandy (2018)
You can often judge a Nicolas Cage movie purely on the basis of how frequent and intense his freakout scenes are – as well as how well they fit with the tone of the film in general. In that sense – as well as in many others – Mandy is an unqualified success. It’s a pretty extreme film from a […]
TV Review: The Toys That Made Us
I reviewed a single episode of Netflix series The Toys That Made Us recently (the one covering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and found it to be full of interesting details about how the turtles became such a phenomenon. What I found most intriguing was just how much of what we know about the franchise – what we perhaps take as […]
TV Review: The Toys That Made Us – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
After learning about the rise and fall of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise recently by watching – and immensely enjoying – the documentary Power of Grayskull, […]
Film Review: Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
I distinctly remember missing the broadcast of the very first episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the UK; I was out playing with friends while it was on and we were all extremely jealous of the talk in the playground the next day, having not been able to witness what we were told was an absolutely […]
Music Review: Chromeo – Quarantine Casanova EP
I first became aware of cheeky retro-electro funk duo Chromeo in 2007 at a British festival called The Big Chill. For a number of years back then, I used to attend that particular festival with a group of close friends; it was small but grew to a decent enough size that it attracted some phenomenal acts – and it was […]
Comic Book Review: The Ballad of Halo Jones: Volume 2
Having recently reviewed the first volume of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s classic series, it was only a matter of time before I reacquainted myself with the continuing chronicles of Halo Jones – and, as with the first volume, it’s been an absolute joy to rediscover the series and experience it all over again, several decades later. The second volume […]
Comic Book Review: Roy of the Rovers Summer Special 2020
This is a bit of a weird one for me. I have very rarely – in my 43 plus a bit years on this planet – had any interest in sports at all, so consequently I never really read Roy of the Rovers, a comic featuring the eponymous football (sorry, that’s soccer for my American readers) player, who played for […]
Comic Book Review: The Ballad of Halo Jones: Volume 1
Thanks to the brilliant 2000AD Humble Bundle, I’ve been able to get hold of an awful lot of reading material, some of which I’m catching up with for the first time. The Ballad of Halo Jones (which is included in the bundle in its entirety) is a comic that I’ve read before, though not for many years – and certainly […]
Comic Book Review: The Thirteenth Floor: Home Sweet Home
When I was growing up in the 80s, I was absolutely fascinated with horror and gruesome imagery. I was watching and reading content that should have been, in hindsight, way […]
May The Fourth Be With You
No sooner has Alien Day come and gone than the next sci-fi movie themed day arrives. Both the Alien and Star Wars franchises are very dear to me, with Star […]
