When his father dies after being hit by strange, random objects falling from an otherwise clear sky, OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) takes over the running of the family horse ranch. Set in the middle of an expansive, wild valley, it's a perfect eerie location for some very, VERY strange events... To be honest, I have avoided … Continue reading Nope (2022)
"Five women in a Land Rover, heading out towards the distant treetops." A group of academics arrive at a fenced-off forest, unexplored for decades due to strange happenings: some kind of magnetic field is disrupting compasses, for a start. They're there - oh so prepared, they think - to try to find evidence of a … Continue reading The Dark Between the Trees – Fiona Barnett
Welcome to the television event of the year. Split into two 'volumes', the penultimate season of Stranger Things has been the watercooler tv of late. We're back in Hawkins, with an ever-expanded cast of characters. The youngers are looking so gawky and teenage-y which suits well, given they're starting high school. All is not well: the group … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 4)
When Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) starts having nightmares, little does he suspect the truth: the Multiverse is bleeding other realities into each other. It takes a giant squid monster and a dimension-hopper to reveal these strange realities - and a dire warning that things have to be fixed. His first call for help is … Continue reading Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
My rewatch of the excellent Stranger Things continues as I run towards the new episodes. Season 1 both tied up the initial story and left an obvious way to continue. And so, welcome back to Hawkins, Indiana, just in time for Halloween, 1984. It didn't occur to me at the time, but each season revolves … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 2)
As the fourth season of Stranger Things debuts on Netflix, I asked myself if I should plough right in or did I need to refresh my memory a bit on season 3. Then I realised I hadn't ever rewatched a season, so it felt time to go right back to the beginning! We start on … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 1)
"Carolyn, blood-drenched and barefoot, walked alone down the two-lane stretch of blacktop that the Americans called Highway 78." As the blurb tells us, Carolyn is not so different from other humans - and indeed, she used to be a normal American kid, 25 years and once upon a time ago. Because time moves differently in … Continue reading The Library at Mount Char – Scott Hawkins
"The ship fled between the stars." The fools have finally done it: launched the nukes and started the end of the human race. Except, 75 years later, humanity still exists out in the cold darkness of space, on a vast fleet of arks. How they got there is a discovery for the reader. Eryn is … Continue reading Stars and Bones – Gareth Powell
"Keep far away from Orion Lake." Welcome back to the Scholomance, the school that makes Hogwarts look like day care and the most brutal prison seem palatable in comparison. Four years without real daylight, proper food, or any supplies you didn't bring with you at the start. Sure, there are no teachers, but the classes … Continue reading The Last Graduate – Naomi Novik
"Homo sapiens had been gazing up at the stars for about three hundred millennia before they finally managed to launch themselves off the planet of their origin toward those countless points of light." After the success of the first two Alien movies, the early nineties tried to replicate the success by continuing the franchise. We'd left Ripley escaping … Continue reading Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay – Pat Cadigan & William Gibson
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