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SPECTRE (2015)
To follow on from the billion-dollar box office success of 2012’s Skyfall must have been a bit of a daunting task for director Sam Mendes and his writers John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. While Spectre doesn’t quite match the winning combination of psychological intensity and spectacular action of the previous Bond…
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Devil’s Night’
In “Devil’s Night,” this week’s episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, James March (Evan Peters), the show’s spectral H.H. Holmes surrogate, invites the ghosts of other real-life serial killers to the hotel for his annual Halloween murder party. Wackiness ensues. I still have 560 words to go? Well, fine… This week’s episode mostly takes a break…
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6 HORROR FILMS TOO SCARY TO SEE TWICE
It’s Halloween this Saturday, so we’ve chosen 6 Horror Films Too Scary To See Twice. As the title suggests, not every film is a heartfelt recommendation for others to watch, but each one’s a film only those with nerves of steel should consider viewing this 31 October… 10 Rillington Place (1971, dir: Richard Fleischer) Paul…
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SCREAM: THE TV SERIES – Season One
“You can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series,” states pop-culture geek Noah (John Karna) in the first episode of MTV’s gory, glossy Scream, and you can’t fault his reasoning. “Slasher movies burn bright and fast,” he continues. “TV shows need to stretch things out.” It’s difficult not to agree with him, especially on…
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THE LEFTOVERS, 2.4 – ‘Orange Sticker’
It seems Jarden, Texas, may not be the idyllic, marvellous sanctuary Kevin (Justin Theroux) and Nora (Carrie Coon) needed it to be, as the disappearance of local girl Evie (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and her friends is proving to be just as devastating as the worldwide Great Departure, but in a very different way. For Nora, the earthquake…
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YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Four’
First off, apologies to everyone for the late arrival of this recap, which was down to unavoidable personal circumstances. With that out of the way let’s cast our mind back to episode four, in which things took a decidedly darker turn and we learnt more about our various misfits and miscreants. I do truly think…
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DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical debate about whether living forever really is the gift that keeps on giving. The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) has evolved into a Promethean figure: endlessly wounded and regenerated, representing immortality as punishment for the…
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THE KNICK, 2.2 – ‘You’re No Rose’
After an opening episode that was primarily focused on resetting the board after the end of the first season, getting everyone back at the Knick, or at least back to New York, “You’re No Rose” was able to push on and explore the way many of the characters’ relationships have changed since the series began. It’s…
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TOMORROWLAND (2015)
One of this summer’s biggest box-office disappointments was Disney’s Tomorrowland, from director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille). It made $208m worldwide, but cost approximately $330m to produce and market. It’s a shame whenever an original film tanks—in an age dominated by sequels, adaptations, and remakes—but it’s easy to see why Tomorrowland wasn’t embraced by…
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Mommy’
With Jessica Lange having left American Horror Story‘s impressive repertory cast, Hotel is proving to be more of an ensemble-driven story than recent years. Judging by this week’s episode, “Mommy”, this could prove to be a good thing for the series. While Lange was always a highlight of every season she appeared in, her absence has created an…
