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My first steps into popular culture were made through movies. Blowing up the second Death Star. The Scarlet Buccaneer‘s pirate ship. That deeply disturbing Italian horror sci fi movie from the 1970s which I was clearly too young to watch and had clearly been put on Saturday morning on ITV by someone who either wanted …
As opening lines go ‘I’m at the Integrity Bank job for 40 minutes before the anxieties kick in’ is right up there with ‘The sky was the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel.’ However, where Neuromancer now plays like a quaint, and honestly rather optimistic, view of the future, Rosewater has much more complicated things to …
It’s crass to open with the idea that Brexit: The Uncivil War needs to be looked at from two different angles but that doesn’t make it any less true. This is a dramatic presentation of events we’re living in the immediate aftermath of and as a result I’ve had to look at it as two …
Marc Jackson’s work is a frequent flier in these parts and for good reason. His art has exuberant, fizzy energy to it, his comedic timing is spot on and there are few comic creators better at knowing exactly how long a story needs to be. His latest, Hot Dog and Mustard, is available now and …
I am tremendously lucky in that my job gives me the opportunity to experiment with culture. I always try to push forward outside my comfort zones, find something new and interesting and I often do that through Bandcamp. It’s there I found the excellent Modern Aviation and there I recently discovered the equally excellent Ghost …
Good news is at a premium this year, so it seems darkly appropriate that two pieces of it come from the Twilight Zone. The first is that the stage play debuts on the West End next year and is a massively good time. I caught the original version in 2017 and any play that contains …
Eve L. Ewing’s script attempts four impossible things at nice and manages all of them. The first is to re-introduce RiRi and her world. The second is to set her up as a character in her own right. The third is to establish an ongoing plot and the fourth is to build all of that …
November ended up being a month where a KickStarter, a minor operation (All fine) and a book all happened. I still found time to read some really good comics last month though and here’s my look at the first run of them. Nnedi Okorafor is the perfect choice for this series and the second issue …
The 13th Doctor’s first season has been a sprint, exuberantly running headlong not just at the show’s future but at new ways to deal with its past. I’ve rarely had this much fun solving the puzzle the show presents itself as. That puzzle has rarely, if every been so compassionate, inclusive and open-hearted. ‘Demons of …