Fantasy
‘Hellboy’ (2019) Film Review
Legendary director Guillermo Del Toro’s vision of Hellboy, came when many had grown tired of the superhero genre. Studios were churning these films out with...
‘The Head Hunter’ Film Review
Father (Christopher Rygh) hunts monsters. And when he kills them, he lops off their heads to skewer on the wall of his remote cabin, where...
‘Love, Death & Robots’ Season 1 Review – An Anthology Series Deserved To Be Seen
Debuting on Netflix with a lot of promotion, 18 bite-sized segments, and one of the boldest, most surprising attitudes of any show in a while,...
The Order Season 1 Review
Available globally today, Netflix’s new genre-bending supernatural show The Order is difficult to pin down. Across ten episodes of occultist super-powered soapy shenanigans, Shelley Eriksen...
‘Diablero’ | Netflix Original Series Review
New on Netflix today is the eight-part Spanish-language fantasy-horror series Diablero, dubbed into English for those among us who prefer such things. Filmed in Mexico,...
‘Sirius the Jaeger’ | Netflix Original Anime Review
Right on the heels of Hero Mask and Baki comes the latest Netflix Original Anime, Sirius the Jaeger, all twelve episodes of which debuted on...
Tidelands Season 1 Review
Someone once told me that in Australia you’re never more than a couple of meters away from something that can kill you, and having been...
‘Bleach’ | Netflix Original Film Review
I’m not the best person to review Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of Bleach, having neither seen the anime nor read the manga it was based...
The Dragon Prince Season 1 Review
I’ve been eagerly anticipating The Dragon Prince ever since it was first announced. I am a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the series, I refuse to...
The Innocents Season 1 Review
Just when you think that the onslaught of YA-type shows has finally finished, another one comes along in the shape of the new Netflix Original...
‘The Last Warrior’ (‘The Scythian’) | Film Review
You can rely on the Russians to do certain things rather well, such as meddling in elections and crafting proudly old-fashioned fantasy epics. The Last...
‘The Little Mermaid’ (2018) | Film Review
It takes a fair helping of fishy guts to peddle knockoff wares in the shadow of a Disney classic, but that’s exactly what Blake Harris and Chris...
Every Day (2018) Review
If Every Day demonstrates a single truth, it’s that we are running out of genuine ideas for teen drama movies. Whether it’s a goofy high school comedy...
‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 3 Review – Ambitious Action Meets Continuity Chaos
Even by the usual standards of a show where teenage aliens battle with humming multi-colored laser swords, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 is...
‘Troy: Fall of a City’ Review – BBC’s Epic Take on the Iliad Legends
Troy: Fall of a City is the latest attempt to bring Homer’s (not that one) Illiad tales of legend to life. Life in Troy seems like...
‘Swordgai The Animation’ Season 1 Review: A Mesmerizing Blend of Violence and Humanity
Swordgai The Animation tells the tragic story of Gai, a child abandoned from birth, his self-inflicted retribution serves to set a course of anguish and...
Review | Bright
Sometimes, Netflix manages to secure a Hollywood star for one of their Originals. Brad Pitt in War Machine, Chadwick Boseman in Message from the King...
‘Dave Made a Maze’ Review – It’s Not Bad, But It Overstretches The Concept
There are few metaphors more obvious than the homemade living-room labyrinth in Dave Made a Maze. The titular Dave (Nick Thune) is a struggling artist...
Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Somewhere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, there’s a Guy Ritchie movie. You can see it, occasionally. For two or three scenes, the FX-leaden...
Review – The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
I’ll be the first to admit that I was very much among the naysayers when it was revealed that Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s...