S Segments Ranked – Worst to Best

The V/H/S franchise combines two mainstays of the horror genre: found footage and the anthology format. The hook here is that every grainy segment is written and directed by different people – often the biggest names in horror.

And it’s a wild ride, with each film offering a mix of scares and gore.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – First Impressions / Episodes 1 and 2 Review

For this Tolkien fan, there is a lot to like and a lot to dislike in Amazon’s lavish adaptation of the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings.

‘Batman – One Bad Day: The Riddler’ – Review

In a similar vein to how ‘The Killing Joke’ redefined The Joker, this new series of one-shots aims to do that for other members of Batman’s rogues gallery. First up is The Riddler, from Tom King and Mitch Gerads.

What I’m Reading – ‘From Hell’ by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Probably the best graphic novel of all time.

Brian and Charles (2022) Review

Brian and Charles is a feature length adaptation of the 2017 short fil of the same name. Starring and written by David Earl and Chris Hayward and directed by Jim Archer, the film is a bittersweet and often hilarious look at lonliness and letting go.

100 words or less – The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

After the success of his 1984 film Vigil, director Vincent Ward followed it up in 1988 with The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey; his underappreciated (but arguably better) science-fiction film.

100 words or less – Road Games (1981)

Richard Franklin’s hugely underrated thriller is a highpoint of Ozploitation cinema with a fantastic and funny central performance from Stacy Keach,

They’ve all come to look for America – ‘The Last American’ by John Wagner, Alan Grant, AND Mike McMahon

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light…

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Review

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a love letter to Nicolas Cage, made by people who see him as the peculiar but extremely talented artist that we Cagephiles have been shouting about for years.

The Top 5 Films Based on Marvel Comics

With the imminent release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and following the multiversal hi-jinks of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the lines between the canon MCU films and the other ‘legacy’ films are becoming more and more blurred and in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel it appears Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier is about to make a return.

To honour this, I thought I would whittle down the 60+ films based on Marvel Comics to just the top 5. That’s 1998’s Blade all the way through to Spider-Man: No Way Home.