With Jessica Chastain playing the Shi’Ar empress Lilandra in X-Men: Dark Phoenix we know that space-based mutant shenanigans are on the horizon. Meanwhile, James Gunn wants to change a little bit of canon in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and Naoki Uresawa’s manga series Pluto gets an anime adaptation. Our featured comics […]
Month: July 2017
S14E20 – I’m Forever Milking Kaiju
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) A gruelling and essential World War II documentary (Review)
Aquarius (2016) Sonia Braga towers over this bloated love affair with the home space (Review)
What I will say about Aquarius, the latest film from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho is that it is an absorbing, detailed and considerate character study of its female protagonist – and more, that protagonist happens to be a woman in her mid-sixties. There really isn’t enough major roles or stories […]
Keyframe 81 – Pope Gundam’s Cosmic Dance-Off
The Levelling (2016) An incredible, sympathetic film to the plight of the modern farmer (Review)
It would be wrong to say British film hasn’t dealt with the countryside, but it certainly hasn’t dealt with it in any depth. For the first half-century or so of British cinema it might as well have been a painted backdrop, just some pretty, quintessentially British scenery against which melodramas […]
Literary Loitering 69 – Batman’s Single Dad Fanfiction
We’ve got a smorgasbord of strangeness this week with the Jeremy Corbyn colouring book, Anthony Burgess on pornography, DILF romances and eating books (literally). We also take a look at twenty allegedly helpful advisory tweets for writers that have been compiled into a “helpful” list. Our featured book is Eagle […]