Sam Raimi brings his usual flair to this visually impressive superhero flick, but the film suffers from the same flaws as most modern blockbusters of the genre Read the rest of this entry »

Pretty uninspiring Hollywood standard stuff - I saw the twists coming a fair way off, and I have to admit I’m really getting quite sick of Hollywood’s fascination with mythologising FBI agents. From watching these films, you’d think they’re superheroes or something - a little hard to stomach in these post 911 days… Read the rest of this entry »

It’s obvious that the intention was to make this look like a comic book transferred to the big screen. Nothing new there. But the result of the cheap film enhancement director Kurt Wimmer deploys is that it turns out looking like a poorly rendered computer game. Read the rest of this entry »

Of course, a lot of people are going to hate this. It’s not that there’s a fine line between comedy and bad taste. It’s just that that line shifts depending on your perspective. If you watch this convinced that Sacha Baron Cohen is a just smart alec who wants to make people look stupid, then you may well be offended. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone is raving about Daniel Day-Lewis in this and the hype is more than justified - he is stupendously good. The entire film hangs off the strength of his performance, and that is both a good thing and a bad thing. Read the rest of this entry »

I knew Mieville was a great writer, but little did I know on picking up this volume of short stories for a casual read while enduring some economy-class air hell that I was about to embark on an almost religious experience. Read the rest of this entry »

I read sci fi so that every now and then I will read something as awesome as this. Reynolds’ first novel is amazing - on his first shot he wrote one of the greatest sci fi novels of all time. Read the rest of this entry »