Category: Reviews

Film Review: Automata (2014)

April 28, 2015
4 mins to read

“It all makes for a frustrating watch.” It is the year 2044 and solar storms have caused large swathes of Earth to become so radioactive that humanity has all but been wiped out. Millions of robots have been created by the company ROC to build the means of protecting those people who are left within …

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Book Review: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

April 24, 2015
8 mins to read

“Trigger Warning contains some of the best stories that this Gaiman has written.” Neil Gaiman is a writer who needs no introduction, a writer whose work is as distinctive as any in speculative fiction. Most readers of his new collection, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, will come to it knowing roughly what to expect – …

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Book Review: Carus & Mitch by Tim Major

April 23, 2015
4 mins to read

“An intimate, original and character-driven take on the post-apocalyptic genre” The eponymous characters of Carus & Mitch, from Oxford-based writer Tim Major, are two sisters living alone in a house somewhere in Northern Britain, having fled from an apocalyptic disaster. Each day is spent following a routine laid out by their deceased mother: collect the …

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Film review: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

April 22, 2015
4 mins to read

“The underdeveloped sum of its parts falls considerably short of what promised to be an electrifying 86 minutes of meta-horror.” Intelligently sidestepping the mindless copycat fodder of atypical remakes, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon displays some refreshing originality with The Town That Dreaded Sundown in referencing both the 1976 original and the notorious string of real-life killings …