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Between Faiza and Leanne we're quite spoilt for choice when it comes to community based political discourse. Today was the former's ...

Rewatching the first (of the modern rebooted) Mortal Kombat films made me realise it wasn't as good as I remembered it being. The main c...

Hokum was an above decent horror movie. The scares were good, albeit sometimes cheap. Adam Scotts's Ohm was an annoying and easily-hated...

To be honest I'm not sure why this book was on my list. I like to think I have a robust and discerning filter mechanism - mainly because...

Rather than being an abstract discussion about the topic at hand, today's event hosted by Faiza Shaheen was was more of a conversation w...

It's not like Nintendo to fail at these things, and yet here we are. Where the first Mario movie reached a chef's kiss level of fine...

Perhaps I'm getting a bit old, but I'm of the opinion that horror movies need to be more than just a series of (even excellent) scar...

The whole book vs adaptation conversation will always be a paradox. A film was never going to be as good as the book it was based on, and ye...

Apart from being wonderfully written, brilliantly concise and amazingly clear, the real value in this book isn't how well it is put toge...

Tonight's conversation was of particular interest to me having been moved from the host's constituency to the guest's, Faiza Sha...

I think it's safe to say that I'll never be disappointed by Sam Raimi. That said I'm always surprised to hear that he has a new ...

Maybe (definitely) I'm getting a little grumpy in my old age, but any film that has a man in a monkey suit as its main antagonist (while...

I've always maintained that there is Science Fiction and there is Science Fiction. Aurora can be firmly placed in the more genuine of th...

I was going to full tilt rant about how each trip to the two holy cities is less pleasant than the last, about how there are too many Muslim...

I've mentioned before how important the Ilford in Conversation talks tend to be - they manage to remain current, honest, and present a d...

There are a few potential problems with splitting a film that didn't require any splitting into two. Firstly there would always be compa...

Perhaps the mistake I made was watching the original 1987 just yesterday, because even though this new version wasn't bad per se... it d...

Regardless of what you might think of Ilford or Leanne Mohamad, Ilford in Conversation is starting to become a very decent forum to hear peo...

There was a period in the late 90s and 00s where, for some reason, film makers were failing to capture the magic that the preceding couple o...

Although I very much enjoyed The Martian at the time, after reflection I saw it for what it was - a book of puzzles and problem solving usin...

In was turned out to be a perfect counter point to last week's One Battle, Him is a masterclass in how to make a short film feel bloated...

At a mammoth 2h41m, it took a lot of faith to sit down for this film. A confused and manic trailer didn't help much but in we went. And ...

Titles aside, this was actually a conversation between Leanne and Ibtihal Aboussad, famous for making that stand against Microsoft, her empl...

In many ways Emberdark is the opposite of Wind and Truth, the last "main" Cosmere novel that I read. It's concise (well, relat...

Sometimes a film just needs a single concept to focus on and do well with. You can't really get more simple than a film about walking - ...

Apart from obvious contextual stuff, there were a few other things that I learned during tonight's audience with Dr Pandor. The most str...

It only occurred to me as I write this how post count could be a pretty good indicator of blog productivity. I'm on for around 40 posts ...

More often than not, bigger is never better. At [stupid number] of pages long, WaT is the longest volume in the Stormlight Archive, and ther...

It was only as the credits rolled that I realised what Weapons was calling me back to. So it was with little surprise to learn that yes, Wea...

Nostalgia aside, this 2025 rendering of a spoof classic was experimental in many ways. How would it fare in this post-political correct worl...