media reviews that resonate
Two brothers, Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) return to the Mississippi Delta after years away. They’ve served in World War One and, later, in the Chicago … Read More
With great power comes great responsibility… but does it also come with an inevitable cost? On Earth 1610, Miles Morales swings through the city, taking a welcome break from his … Read More
John Sheridan is leaving Babylon 5 for the last time, ready to assume his role not as just the commander of a space-station but President of the Interstellar Alliance, the … Read More
Years ago, Bruce Wayne sought out those who could train him in his journey to become the avenging angel that would one day be The Batman. It’s now decades later … Read More
Steve and Dennis are two paramedics working the New Orleans night-shift. Each shift brings depressingly more of the same: overdoses, murders, domestic violence and generally the underside of humanity. Their … Read More
Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) is a young woman working on an assembly line in Mexico City, just about making ends meet: looking after her father and trying to get her … Read More
If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that opinions on sf shows can be divisive. In recent times, Doctor Who and Star Wars have seen their fair … Read More
Tori Breyer (Elizabeth Banks) and her husband Kyle ( David Denman) are a mid-west couple working their homestead and longing for a child that seems like an impossibility. But one … Read More
On the other side of the galaxy, a war rages between two metallic races, the Autobots and the Decepticons – and the evil Decepticons are winning. In the midst of … Read More
June 1944 and as Allied Forces get ready for D-Day, a team of soldiers have been tasked with taking down an important transmitter deep in the French countryside. When their … Read More
Notorious hacker and punisher of evil men Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) returns to her base of operations and receives an offer that intrigues. A man named Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) … Read More
Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. … Read More
David Lee (John Cho), his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) and daughter Margot (Michelle La) are a typical close-knit family: the doting parents who have encouraged their daughter to follow in … Read More
The Conjuring franchise, the horror mythology loosely (sometimes very loosely) taking its cues from real people and events, has had its ups and downs, including the main films, the Annabelle … Read More
Riley North (Jennifer Garner) is a typical cash-strapped suburban mother, getting by as best she can. When the birthday party for her daughter Carly (Cailey Fleming) is sabotaged by a … Read More
