Sometimes things go unnoticed for years until someone draws attention to them. Case in point, in the press kit for Reiki Tsuno’s Mad Cats – he remarks that most Independent Japanese films are “so sad, serious, and depressing most of the time… Budgets for indie movies in Japan are actually […]
Pop Culture
Rob’s Music of 2022 (feat. Denzel Curry, Soul Glo, Chat Pile and Witch Fever)
We aren’t a music website, never have been never will be. But that doesn’t mean we can’t dabble when it’s appropriate and right now, at the end of the year, when every website under the sun is doing its 2022 articles and coverage makes it appropriate. Some of the bands […]
2022 Roundup
The end of 2022 is upon us, and December is often seen as a time to reflect on all that has happened in the year, and what an insane twelve months we have just had, with political chaos galore, our first change in monarch since 1952, and many global disputes […]
Whatever Happened To 80s And Early 90s Cyberpunk Anime?
Oh hey, Studio Trigger are bringing it back All anime fans of a certain age and particularly those whose teen years were associated with and defined by certain subcultures, remember the first time they saw one of those classic iconic moments in 80s cyberpunk anime. Be it the incredible Konya […]
Tales of Unease (1970): paperback horror brought to life in an unjustly forgotten series (Review)
Let’s address that title first. As far as horror anthologies go, 1970’s LWT miniseries Tales of Unease might be guilty of under-promising; not Tales of Terror, or Tales of Slaughter, just something to make you a bit uneasy. Two years earlier, BBC Two had given us Late Night Horror, a […]
Come Back Lucy (1978) British Kid’s Horror runs rings around its modern equivalents (DVD Review)
Timeshifts and tantrums in this kids horror throwback from the late 1970s. Adapted from Pamela Sykes’s novel of the same name, this 1978 TV series delivers nostalgia by the bucketload along with high-maintenance little girl ghosts and all the modern music of the late nineteen seventies! Groovy! The titular Lucy […]
Doctor Who – The Power Of The Doctor (2022)(TV Review)
I have discussed Doctor Who plenty of times, doing pieces on each of Jodie Whittaker’s series, but the first specific episode review of Doctor Who I did was way back in January 2018, when I covered the recent Twice Upon A Time, the final episode for both Peter Capaldi as […]
The Intruder (1972) A Strange Slice of 1970s Nostalgia (TV/Blu-Ray Review)
In the lead-up to Halloween, NETWORK has looked to TV schedules of years gone by, specifically Grenada – a wing of what would go on to be the ITV family. TV series and TV movies have been collected into a series of releases that are being put out under the […]
Rave Encounters: Blade II, 20 years later
Four years before Sam Raimi took Peter Parker for a swing through New York, and a full decade before Tony Stark found his heart in a cave in the desert, there was Blade. Released in 1998 to a mixed bag in terms of critical reception, the Wesley Snipes-fronted Blade went […]
Opinion Piece: Why I Think Better Call Saul Was Overrated
CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOTH BETTER CALL SAUL AND BREAKING BAD. I WILL BE DISCUSSING BOTH IN DETAIL. Hello everyone, it’s Alex here, and I’ll start by asking a question: have you ever watched something that is critically lauded, heralded as a work of greatness, and just felt completely isolated from […]