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Just started watching a new anime last night, it shall remain nameless, but it lost me within the first episode. Why? The first five minutes were the main character narrating the basic plot structure of the world to badly-drawn character portraits. The episode then followed a by-the-numbers detective story involving some kind of vampire mafia.…

When I was about ten years old my Mum and Dad gave me a fantasy book to read, one that I would love all my life. A story about a hobbit. Once I’d devoured the story of Bilbo’s journey to the Lonely Mountain, I went on to read The Lord of the Rings, and I’ve…

I asked my go-to bookstore owner to give me something a little different to read, something that I would find challenging. His suggestion was Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Sirens of Titan,” and as a result I’ve been dying to talk to everyone about this book all week!        “The Sirens of Titan” was written in 1959…

My wife and I caught “The Space Between Us” on Netflix the other night, having missed the chance to see it in the cinema. This US romance follows the character of Gardner, a boy born in space and raised on Mars when his astronaut mother falls pregnant before the mission but dies in childbirth. The…

PLAIN ENGLISH CHALLENGE! This article will be jargon-free and accessible as possible. “Supermodernism” is a term I stumbled across this week, and after doing some research—most of it involving a dictionary to find out what the hell the authors were on about—I thought the idea was worth exploring. What is supermodernism, compared to all the…

Hi everyone, I thought we might get away from the fandom theories and talk a little about the writing for the Loki series finale. What worked and what didn’t? I’m not going to do a blow-by-blow replay, you all know how the episode went. So what worked? I liked the fact that Loki and Sylvie…

Yes, the pun is intended. I have three daughters. Bad Dad Jokes are what I do. Seriously though, I’ve spent the last week playing Subnautica and have also caught up with Loki. I’ve adored the former but I’m struggling to stay interested with the latter. Why? Let me explain… Loki episode 3 follows the title…

Hey everyone, I’ve just finished episode 1 of the new Loki series, and so far I have to say I’m intrigued. I’m not going to give a blow-by-blow review here, if you’re reading this you’ve probably already seen it, but in a nutshell: due to the events of Infinity War, the 2012 Loki who attacked…

Hi all, I’ve come across a story or two this week about a proposed Powerpuff girls reboot, and (as with everything these days) it has set the internet squabbling over whether this will be a worthy follow-up to the original series. For those who may not know, The Powerpuff Girls was a late 90s/early 2000s…

Hi everyone, my wife and I have just finished Season 1 of Shadow and Bone, and overall, I really enjoyed it! Now before I go any further, I’m going to admit the books are in the backlog reading list I’m trying to get through (I’m casting a guilty eye over the stack of books sitting…