Film Reviews: Star Trek Beyond

There’s a certain poetic nature to this. My personal journey toward Star Trek Beyond began with Star Wars: The Force Awakens some seven months ago, and on the day that I saw Beyond, it was announced filming has wrapped on Episode VIII. The circle continues. This is also a film tinged with sadness. It’s the […]

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Film Reviews: Star Trek (2009)

My first film review is a film that proved to be quite divisive within the Trekkie fan base. Star Trek was the film that ‘rebooted’ the franchise, several years after Enterprise went off the air. The film takes the franchise back to its roots. The original characters of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co were recast […]

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Zombies, versus stuff

So last night I had a dream that I was trying to escape from a holiday that had gone badly wrong. The dead were rising up to consume the living and some people I was with and I were fighting our way through a set of warehouses and apartment blocks. Slowly but surely, we fought […]

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