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"We read fantasy to find the colours again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang." -- GRRM

Saturday, 31 December 2016

Emlyn's top 10 films of 2016

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There’s been a lot of ink spilled about 2016 being a terrible year for films, but that’s really not the case. Sure, it’s been a fairly cr...
Saturday, 12 November 2016

Make Space Opera Relevant Again

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What a depressing week, in what a depressing year, this has been. After many years of what had seemed like genuine, positive progress tow...
Saturday, 1 October 2016

Review: Park Chan-wook's THE HANDMAIDEN

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Park Chan-wook’s new film, The Handmaiden, starts out feeling very unlike what you’d expect from the mind that brought us the twisted del...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

Batman v Superman: Dissection of Justice

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The DC Cinematic Universe is now officially on the move, beginning Warner Bros' attempt to catch up with their rivals at Marvel and...
Sunday, 3 January 2016

Emlyn's top 10 films of 2015

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I shan't bother faffing around with the introduction, but instead get straight to the (hopefully) interesting stuff. 2015 was a very goo...
Friday, 18 December 2015

Musings on Star Wars

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Star Wars has always meant a lot to me, and I know I'm far from alone in that. I first saw the Holy Trilogy when I was six, so it...
Friday, 3 July 2015

I have many questions about Terminator Genisys

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Terminator Genisys is not a film that makes a whole lot of sense. The time travel shenanigans spend most of the runtime spiralling out of...
Friday, 22 May 2015

We Are Not Things: a lesson Game of Thrones needs to learn

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* MINOR MAD MAX SPOILERS WITHIN* If you've been on the internet in the last week, chances are pretty good that you already know...
Friday, 25 July 2014

Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! (You know the ones I mean)

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I saw Hercules on Wednesday, and it got me to thinking about the use of relationships in adaptations of Greek myth and history. Specifica...
Tuesday, 24 June 2014

The Dark Knight Returns is not a good Batman story

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What with it being Batman's 75th anniversary this year, and since it looks very much like the upcoming Batman v Superman film is go...
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A graduate in Classics from Warwick University. I write about SF, films, comics, and anything else that takes my fancy.
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