Tag: Pop Culture

For those of you who loved the small-screen adaption of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, I’m super excited to share with you that the streaming service Showtime has just tapped Gaiman to produce a miniseries of Gormenghast! Gaiman, who has also been involved with television adaptions of Sandman and American Gods, will be…

SPOILERS AHEAD, FANBOYS (and fangirls) So I finally got a chance to watch the end of Season 3 of Stranger Things, I have to say, loved almost every minute of it. Good Writing Matters! What they got right: Splitting up the characters into new groups was a great idea. Max and Eleven were some of…

Hi everyone, I’ve finally finished watching Stranger Things Season 3, and I’ll be writing about that soon. In the meantime, the beautiful 80’s TV/movie references that were crammed into literally every shot of the season has inspired me to revisit some of my favorite 80’s fantasy films. Let’s put a twist on this. A while…

So I’ve only been able to watch the first two episodes of “Stranger Things” Season 3, and I was wondering what direction they were going to take. When a series begins, the first season is all about establishing the main players of the world, in this case, the “Goonies”-style teenagers versus the nightmarish creature that…

I’ve just read the news that Netflix is producing a television series set in the Narnia universe of C S Lewis. I think everyone of my generation (shut up, I’m not *that* old) read “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” at least once in their childhood, and I loved the series before I started getting into…

(very mild spoilers – let’s be honest, you all know how Aladdin goes). I was looking after my girls yesterday and had the chance to take them to see Disney’s latest live-action remake, Aladdin. I think the current phase of Disney movies started with the live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians, and old Walt has been…

Just saw the preview for “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.” I’m super excited for the prequel series! When I was growing up, there were three fantasy movies that my family kept coming back to, again and again. The first was “The Princess Bride,” and the second was “The Labyrinth.” Trust me, I’ll get round…

So now that Game of Thrones is over, what’s next for fiction fans to look forward to? My wife and I used our short-lived Foxtel account to finish the Song of Ice and Fire, and took the opportunity to binge watch Westworld Season 2. After a slow start, I have to say I loved it;…

Well, the final episode is wrapped up, and thus ends one of the most watched/pirated book to screen adaption in television history. Since there’s already plenty of articles floating around the net about what was right and wrong with the last episode, I’m going to list a few things off just to get them out…

SPOILERS! SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! I (finally) had the chance to see Marvel’s Endgame in the cinema. Overall, the movie was beautifully paced, with the first act being the surviving Avengers dealing with their failure to stop Thanos from turning half the life in the universe to dust. I will admit I still wonder how “the dusting”…