Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
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Read moreOrphan Black – a TV Show Worth Cloning
Posted by It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about watching a show. For perhaps the past year or so, television to me has been all about spoon-feeding the audience the plot, releasing shallow and singular-dimensional characters into the ether, and producing gratuitously sexed-up or violent scenes – because they look good […]
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Read moreWe Love Our Browncoats, So Firefly Can Never Come Back
Posted by I love Firefly. But I don’t want it to come back anymore. Not in the format and with the characters we’d recognise. Here’s why. 1/ Fox still own it. They’d just kill it again. If we love our Browncoats, we don’t want to re-subject them to the Fox environment. Ok ok, assume this can be […]
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Read moreThe Next Ghibli Masterpiece: Arrietty
Posted by Studio Ghibli films are always highly anticipated by young and old alike. After watching the newest Studio Ghibli dub, one of the first questions I tend to ask is, ‘when’s the next one’? The Japanese studio who brought us amazing works such as Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and most […]
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Read moreFantasy FTW!
Posted by The TV world seem to be asking us to jump on their next genre bandwagon; Fantasy. Magic, Maidens, Madmen, Mystery and Medieval garments. I’m not saying it’s the first time fantasy has poked it’s head up on a screen of course – you have your Hercules and Xena, Heath Ledger’s Roar, Legend of the Seeker, […]
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Read moreThe Return of Firefly
Posted by “When your miracle gets here, you just pound this button once. It’ll call back both shuttles.” – Wash, ‘Out of Gas’ It’s been an exciting week for Browncoats. Unless you’re living on a border planet, you’ll have undoubtedly seen this from Captain Tightpants himself Nathan Fillion in a recent interview on EW, discussing the return […]