Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) I must say, I do harbour a fondness for obsessives. You know what I mean: men and women who take their passion for a particular subject to extreme levels. As Cthulhu is my judge, how could I not relate to them, since I have my own grand obsessions? But Star Trek enthusiasts? Man, we are onto a whole different pinnacle there! It must take a really dedicated fan (atic) perseverance...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Evil Walt Disney, White Slaver; and… Star Wars: The Force Awakens I think that somebody somewhere once said that the opposite of Love is not Hate. It’s Indifference. And that sounds about right to me. It’s one of the reasons that I don’t intend to review Star Wars: The Force Awakens — quite leaving aside the fact that it’s one of those films that is critically bullet-proof. People were going to go and see it, come what may;...
Batman : Zero Year
Batman: Zero Year Legend of Batman is another set of collections from Eaglemoss, the quality of which I raved about last year when the company launched its series of Star Trek graphic novels. And this looks to be every single bit as good, if the initial two volumes here are anything to go by. Mind you, it is probably necessary to be a complete bat- fanatic if the intention is to collect all of the dozens of volumes. I’m...
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) I had been given the erroneous impression that writer/director Luc Besson simply thrusts the audience into Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with little or no context to help establish the coming action. Not so. To the hauntingly familiar notes of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ we see the space station Alpha in 1975 orbiting the earth as different races from the home...
Wonder Woman (2017)
Love and Sorrow: Wonder Woman (2017) What a very, very frustrating film. There is so much to like about it. And then there are equally as many scenes where you just grind your teeth at how close they come to making a really interesting superhero film…but not quite close enough. And there’s no getting around it: my main problem is with the casting of Gal Gadot; and since it’s the title role as Diana, the Wonder Woman, that’s kind...
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