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Friday, 5 December 2014

Kafka meets Gervais in modern office parable The Room

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Anyone who’s ever toiled under the glaring fluorescence of the dreary modern office will enjoy the slow descent of Björn from meticulous...
Monday, 24 November 2014

What We Do In The Shadows? Laugh ourselves silly, mostly

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It’s hard to believe that What We Do In The Shadows has been eight years in the making, given its spot-on, bang-up-to-date parody of...

The Genome: Loose morals... and even looser plotlines

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The Genome is the latest novel from Sergei Lukyanenko, the sci-fi and fantasy author, and now modern Russian figurehead for the genre s...
Monday, 17 November 2014

Amnesia: A mad Aussie dash through history, hacking and the CIA

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  Never has the long shadow of America across the world been so ominous and so ephemeral as it is in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA ...
Monday, 10 November 2014

Interstellar: An awesome sci-fi spectacle – with a tired old plot

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  The weight of expectation is a heavy burden and thanks to a clever information-withholding marketing campaign, the formidable Batman ...

Horizon finds new potential in the sci-fi staple deepsleep tale

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The most likely way for humans to first travel beyond the Solar System is through some form of hibernation, most often referred to in sc...
Thursday, 30 October 2014

Citizenfour: Poitras' documentary about Edward Snowden concentrates on the mission, not the man

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There is no subtlety in the political stance of Laura Poitras, which makes Citizenfour a completely one-sided documentary. Yet oddly e...