You know that sound?
That ‘gnnnhhh’ sound?
The one that you do in earshot of young children when you have just stepped on a piece of Lego and don't want to use profanity?
Well imagine the sound of dozens of adults having to crawl on hands and knees in a 20 foot square pit of Lego bricks some 6 inches deep.
Many a profanity was uttered, which must help the makers of…
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Twenty-four films in do we need an introduction?
No of course not.
So let's get the less successful stuff out of the way first.
It's too long by probably about 30 mins. In fact the whole final act of the film is superfluous.
The plot is convoluted and requires at least a cursory knowledge of ALL of the immediately preceding three films (yes even the really bad one…
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Given that this season seems to be comprised mostly of two-parters, we'll be releasing our reviews after both episodes have aired.
So, we're back again with a new series. We've done a fair bit of dissection and discussion around the trailers for this season on NerdVsWorld and I'm happy to say that it seems a lot of them haven't taken too long to be either proven correct or otherwise.…
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The premise for NBC's new drama, Blindspot, seems on the surface to be a hybrid of ideas that falls somewhere between Memento and Prison Break. The series opens on a busy Times Square as a police man discovers an abandoned bag. Suspecting it may be an explosive, the bomb squad are called in and are shocked to discover that the contents are actually the very naked and very tattooed Jamie…
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Okay Ladies and Gents, It's the spin off we've all been waiting for...
Well... It's the spin off that I've been waiting for...
Well... It's the spin off that I heard about a few month's ago and then promptly forgot about until it was actually released.
After 5 very hit and miss seasons of The Walking Dead, it's time to see what's going on in the world outside of Atlanta in…
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I have spent today trying different ways to review this book.
A straightforward unbiased critique of a young adult's fantasy story?
A potted history of my relationship with the books of this author?
Perhaps a tribute to the writer who has spent over 30 years of giving me a world to wonder over?
I can't do the first of these and do justice to the others. In fact let'…
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I just don't get enough reading done.
It's a horrid, vile and uncomfortable truth I have had to accept since I devoured the first three Expanse books, acquired the fourth part and have barely managed to get past the second chapter due to various intervening delays. It was, however, whilst driving around and quickly getting bored of my playlists (not an easy task given I still quite…
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You know when you leave the cinema and there's that uncomfortable silence as folks are still trying to sum up how they actually feel about the movie that just paid to go and see?
Didn't happen this time - it was clear that this pile of garbage was fired out of someones nose with all the force and beligerence of an elephant with a cold.
The Minions Movie left me ffeling not just a…
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I would be remiss if I didn’t firstly point out that Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in and not Shawn Anne. It is her pet hate.
Rosemary and Rue is the first in a series of books telling the tale of October Daye. October, or Toby for short, is a half Daoine Sidhe and her mother, a full fae, thought her name was quite normal. Prior to this book she established a happy life with her husband,…
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