The Review at the End of the Universe
Alien Day has come around again -April 26th or 04/26 for American listeners- so we continue the annual tradition of discussing an entry in the Alien franchise to mark the occasion. Angus takes over hosting duties and brings together his group of survivors/prisoners in the form of Craig and Natalie to discuss the much maligned…
The Underworld franchise returns for a fifth instalment with Anna Foerster’s Underworld: Blood Wars where Kate Beckinsale’s Seline continues to make enemies on either side of the Vampire/Lycan conflict. I’ve always enjoyed the Underworld films on one level or another. They have always been more about style than substance but there’s enough there to hold…
You will all be aware of the controversy surrounding Paul Feig’s (Spy, Bridesmaids) reboot/reimagining/rehash of Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters. In our age of the internet, where trolls can shout abuse from the sidelines with impunity, and folks can get their backs up at the smallest imagined slight, the trailer for this movie became the most…
Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You adapts the Jojo Moyes bestselling novel of the same name to tell the story of a small town girl who falls for a paralysed man she is employed to take care of. Emilia Clarke plays Louisa Clark, the small town girl in question who is very much a prisoner of…
Burr Steers’ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adapts the novel of the same name that adds an undead twist to the classic Jane Austen tale. How many people have suffered through studying Jane Austen at school, college or university and wished they would add zombies to make the story more interesting? Probably not many people in…
Mother’s Mercy Season 5 of Game of Thrones is now over, and as ever, it has ended in spectacular fashion. An extremely powerful and sad episode with excellent pacing. The unthinkable has happened and Jon Snow is dead. Betrayed by his own and left to die in the snow. Sam got his wish and was…
The Dance of Dragons This episode of Game of Thrones was intense, thrilling and included one of the most tragic deaths in the show’s run. The execution of Shireen proves that Stannis has such a hunger for the throne and he is even willing to sacrifice his own daughter to get it. I was expecting…
“Hardhome” A very compact episode of Game of Thrones this week and after a lot of build-up, this was probably the best of the series so far. The major action being the epic 15 minute battle between The White walkers versus The Wildlings and a small group of Crows. We can only imagine that now…
“The Gift” In Episode 7 of this season of Game of Thrones we find Sansa’s situation with the malevolent Ramsay much the same as last week. Reek now being her only chance of escape he turns her in to Ramsay instead. We can only wonder if Theon Greyjoy is still in there somewhere. At Castle…
“Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” Game of Thrones certainly has us used to watching the odd horrific scene ever few weeks, and as expected, Ramsay and Sansa’s wedding night was right up there. After her escape from Joffrey this seems like an out of the frying pan and into the fire situation for Sansa. This was a…
