Science Fiction, Spies, Television
TV: Andor (Season 1)
I can’t be alone in my complicated relationship with Star Wars; the franchise did, after all, play a huge…
December 4, 2022-
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Film, Science FictionFilm: Dune (Part One)
It usually pays off to follow director Denis Villeneuve wherever he goes, so how about to the planet Arrakis?…
July 4, 2022 -
Fantasy, FilmFilm: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
It ‘s weird to think back on the time when Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was…
April 13, 2021 -
History, TelevisionTV: Chernobyl
So, if you’ll pardon the indirect wind-up for a moment: I’ll never forget discovering Band of Brothers. It was…
June 23, 2020 -
Film, SpiesFilm: Ronin
Revisiting John Frankenheimer’s spy thriller Ronin (1998) over the weekend, I was struck by how old it looked, a…
March 25, 2020 -
Drama, Film, Spies, ThrillerFilm: Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor is one of his later, perhaps lesser books, but it’s one that really…
July 19, 2016 -
Drama, Mystery, TelevisionTV: River
It’s not often I’ll watch a great season of television only to hope it doesn’t get renewed. But that’s…
May 23, 2016 -
Drama, FilmFilm: Nymphomaniac (Parts I & II)
So now I’ve seen the notorious Nymphomaniac (2013). Perhaps my past experience with von Trier’s provacative shock tactics has…
August 25, 2014 -
Comics, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: Thor: The Dark World
Of all the Avengers franchise characters, Thor is probably the least interesting, but Thor: The Dark World (2013) is…
November 12, 2013 -
Comics, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: Thor
When I collected comics back in the 1980s, I was a huge Avengers fan, so I’ve been following the…
May 8, 2011 -
Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Insomnia
Insomnia (1997) is a creepy Norwegian police procedural set in a small town above the Arctic Circle. A pair…
September 6, 2010