Series 11 is good, because it provides episodes that are good on a blow-for-blow basis – but it strips away the best narrative elements that make Doctor Who a special show.
Doctor Who Series 11 Retrospective
The Walking Dead’s Most Effective Episode: A Fracture-Point Of Survival Horror
Eeny-meenie-minie-moe…
Goosebumps: Review
The universe is full of mysteries: did the Kepler telescope discover an advanced alien mega-structure around the star KIC 8462852, or just an amazingly coincidental series of meteor shadows? Is human consciousness the universe’s way of experiencing itself? And more
The Walking Dead season 6 finale analysis: “Hi, I’m Negan.”
(Needless to say, due to the timely nature of this piece, heavy unmarked spoilers are just ahead.) The last time I did a reaction-analysis like this, it was to defend a controversial narrative decision made by a popular series. This
Hollow Bones: The Crossover Nobody Saw Coming
Sometimes crossovers happen because they’re planned from the jump: when the Avengers get together to push back some omega-level threat, it’s because the writers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have carefully cultivated their depictions of the individual heroes to work
Why “That Scene” in The Force Awakens Was Necessary
*SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS* No, really. This is the biggest spoiler in the Star Wars series since No, I Am Your Father, and that’s why I’m typing filler here specifically so that a reader can’t swing by and be spoiled
The Hunger Games and Propaganda: Or, How I Leaned To Stop Worrying And Appreciate These Films
No secret is made of the fact that The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA trilogy adapted into the blockbuster film quadrilogy, is an attempt to fuse (if I can be so bold as to make super-specific comparisons) the gladiatorial
Mad Max: Fury Road Review: Who Killed The World?
(Updated for 2016 at the bottom!) You don’t often hear the term ‘word-of-mouth success story’ when it comes to triple-A Hollywood blockbusters, because films of that budget and caliber are typically promoted to high heaven anyway – but the buzz
Silent Hill: Revelation review
How about this for a Halloween entry? Silent Hill is one of my favourite horror franchises. It’s a brilliant, scary take on surrealist horror, as I’ve previously discussed. And I think the first Silent Hill film was one of the
Godzilla (2014) Review
I really want to like this movie, but that statement comes with a number of asterisks. Asterisk number one: I want to like this movie, despite the fact that the much-hyped Bryan Cranston is killed off in the first act.