I have been watching all the Bond films, in order, with my dad. Every Sunday, with the exception of the chaos that was March, I go round and eat lunch and we sit down for a couple of hours to watch the next thing on the list. We have done all the Connery films. We […]
So a year ago, everyone on the planet was all You HAVE to see Mad Max: Fury Road. It’s brilliant. Over the weekend, I followed their advice. Settled in with a packet of chips and a few hours to kill, watched Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron drive some big-rigs and kill a whole bunch of war […]
I went to see Hail, Caesar on Tuesday night and I’ve been thinking on it ever since. It’s a great film that is not, when you get to the end, a great film. A confusing contradiction that makes perfect sense once you’ve seen it, because it does so much right that it’s vaguely disappointing when you get […]
We’re now four weeks away from Contact 2016 and – if you’re an SF fan in the Brisbane area who is on the fence about going – I’d encourage you to go register sooner rather than later. Why? Well, as a guy who has run a few con-like events and attended many more, let me expound on some […]
ONE: TELL ME I’m over on Jennifer Brozek’s blog this morning, taking part in her Tell Me series where writers talk about their books. I’m tackling the secret origins of the Flotsam series, which involves considerably more Don Delillo quotes than you’d expect. And roughly the exact amount of Guns N’ Roses/Supernatural references. Want to […]
I started watching the new Supergirl series over the weekend and I find myself utterly charmed by the series. Don’t get me wrong: there a definitely better superhero shows on television. Jessica Jones and Daredevil have the kind of production values that are hard to go past, and they have an advantage in that they’re […]
Over the course of the last seven days, I’ve watched a TV show and a movie that occupy the two extremes of representing the creative artist as a narrative achetype – the Amazon Original series Mozart in the Jungle and the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis. Mozart in the Jungle is brilliant. It details the lives of the conductor […]
Peeps, I am currently looking for book and film recommendations within the following parameters: Books: Anything outside of the SF genre. Films: Anything that’s not a SF film, YA movie, or Romantic Comedy No time-limit in terms of the release – I’m currently going back over nearly a decade of recommendations people have made that […]
I’m planted on the couch, notebook on my lap, listening to the rain. The world is wet and green and exceptionally pleasant, and I will be on this here couch for the remainder of the day. Unless the rain gives up. Then I’ll have to move, as the front room gets too hot for work […]
It seems that 90% of my social media feeds are all about Star Wars this week. Perfectly understandable, and the reports have been good enough that I’m booked in to see the film with my dad early next year. The thing that I’m raving about this week? NXT Take-Over London. Like many wrestling fans, I […]
Yesterday, one of my non-geek colleagues turned to me and asked, “so, when are you going to see the new Star Wars?” I didn’t know. I still don’t know. I know that I’m excited to see the film and that I’ll definitely see it at some point. I’ll probably even slouch my way into a […]
