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For my twelfth birthday, all I wanted were Star Wars toys. And boy did I get them. The coolest of the bunch was Boba Fett’s ship, Slave I that came complete with a miniature version of Fett and Han Solo encased in carbonite. Even as a kid I knew that The Empire Strikes Back was […]
Bad Times at the El Royale was Drew Goddard’s homage to film noir and ensemble casts. What he created was a film about people with deep, dark secrets coalescing at a single location. The El Royale Hotel is literally on the border of California and Nevada. On one faithful day in 1969, five people with […]
“Tower of the Angels” is the most loyal episode to the books so far this season. It’s also the best so far as the wider plot of the series starts to come together. Lyra and Will have been tasked by Sir Charles Latrom to retrieve The Subtle Knife from the Torre delgi Angeli – a […]
Emily in Paris is the latest show by Darren Star, the creator of shows like Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Sex and the City. As the title suggests his latest show follows a woman called Emily in Paris. Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) is a Chicago based social media manager who gets an unexpected job […]
“The Jedi” was an exceptional 45 minutes of television, largely because writer and director David Filoni leaned into The Mandalorian’s biggest strength: Making sure to pair Mando up with characters strong enough to carry the narrative load of the episode. And boy was Ahsoka Tano the perfect character to bring out the latent emotional elements […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the Nostalgia Boom that is currently dominating Hollywood.
In U.S. popular culture, Greek and Roman myths have become prominent, whether spun into animations about Cleopatra or popular webcomics about the gods on Mount Olympus. However, there’s one show that tries to shift the focus toward Mesoamerican mythologies and stories, bringing it into the American mainstream: Victor and Valentino. This animated series is the […]
The Doctor is one of the most sought-after roles on British TV. Whenever the role becomes available the British media goes into a fever pitch with speculation over who the next Doctor could be. Actors usually play the Doctor for three seasons so it’s likely the role will be available in the near future. The […]
Nostalgia, Video Games, and Geek Culture have dominated the zeitgeist for over a decade. Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One smashed these ideas together and after it was a publishing success, led to it being adapted as a big-budget film by Steven Spielberg. In 2045 a lot of people escape their troubles by going into […]
The Subtle Knife was the shortest of the novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy. This meant that the TV series had to expand the story to make it fit the median, and “Theft” was proof of this. Lyra sets out to Oxford to meet Mary to discuss Dust but a police detective was waiting […]