Back in 1997 Tony Blair became Prime Minister for the first time, Katrina and the Waves won the Eurovision song contest for the UK, and Batman and Robin, complete with George Clooney’s wobbly-headed rubber-nippled caped-crusader, sunk a comic book movie franchise for eight years. It was also the year that […]
Matt Colver
Matt Colver is a carbon-based life form that lives in Nottingham. He lives mostly on sugar and carbonated drinks laced with caffeine. He writes things sometimes. He has never worn aftershave.
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974) Giallo, from the outside-in (Blu-Ray Review)
Ultrasound (2021) The Sci-Fi of Questioning reality in a bold feature Debut (VOD review)
“What is real? How do you define real?” asks Morpheus in the first (and let’s pretend, only) Matrix film. It’s a well-trodden area for dramas, thrillers, and sci-fi films, in particular, to explore. Mental illness, memory loss, dreams, unreliable narrators, mind control, and simulations; all have been used as plot […]
Postman Pat and the reboot for Late-Stage Capitalism (the 1980s/2008)
Slasher: Scooby-Doo, with more blood and guts
I love a good mystery. Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Scooby-Doo – anything where the central premise is uncovering the identity of the dastardly villain, or villains, behind it all. And I know I’m not alone. Mysteries have been popular ever since Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Murders in the Rue […]
Car Crash Theatre: Heaven Sent (2016)(Review)
The Fox in the Forest (2022: Tabletop Matters) Cards, cunning, and fairy tales (Review)
How’s the endless pandemic treating you? How was Lockdown and its sequels? How’re you finding sticking stuff up your nose, swabbing your throat, steamed up glasses, or washing your hands until they’re sore? If you’re looking for a diversion from the daily doom, try drifting into fiction, fantasy, or the […]