I'm sure I've mentioned before that I don't always get to the comic shop every Thursday (new comic day in the UK), and this is another example of such a catastrophic event: it includes my haul of books from two weeks, with the comics in this post coming out on…
The Kids Are All Right is a charming drama that is also funny that is about the adults involved more than the kids themselves. The reason why they might not be all right is because they have two mothers: their parents (uptight doctor Nic, played by Annette Benning, and relaxed…
Another attempt to try to get back up to date, as I talk about the books I bought a few days after they originally came out in comic shops in the UK. A smaller batch than the previous week, so let's get to it. Beasts of Burden/Hellboy Confession: despite being…
I can't believe the cast list for this adaptation of a Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book: Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine. And room for Julian McMahon. How on earth did this film attract such a…
After all the effort to get up to date on collecting my thoughts on my weekly comic books, and then life got in the way so I'm back to playing catch-up. A huge haul of comics to get through for this week, so on with the show. Batman and Robin…
American Vampire #1–5 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque and Stephen King In a time when libraries in the UK face a difficult future, I just want to reiterate how much I love my local library. The sheer number of graphic novels and collections of comic books I've read via my…
I was already lined up to like this film: I love the writing of Aaron Sorkin, I love the directing of David Fincher, and the story is inherently interesting. The fact that the film is really, really good is just a bonus. Sorkin's electric dialogue works really well here because…
By Justin Cronin One of the great things about the internet: it was because of an item I skimmed on io9.com that led to me picking up this book. I hadn't heard of the author before, and I'm not a great fan of reading hardback books, but I was intrigued…
I absolutely love Community: it very quickly became my new favourite sitcom (because I don't have legal access to 30 Rock at the moment), and we get double episodes of it each week on Viva – no, it's not a channel with which I am very familiar either (it's owned…
I am back and I have seen the first part of final Harry Potter film, so I'm going to ramble on about it in a completely biased fashion because I'm a fan of the whole Harry Potter thing (see my collection of Harry Potter-labelled posts for all my previous Harry…