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Batman v the X-Men 2: The first 13 episodes
I’ve been watching 1990s nostalgia cartoons while using an exercise bike. I gave my initial impressions here but I want to discuss some more detail about the episodes. The problem is there isn’t an easy way to do a side-by-side comparison. There are 76 X-Men episodes and 109 Batman episodes but the first season of…
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The Last of Us finale (spoilers)
Fungal game-adaptation The Last of Us finished with another engrossing episode. Looking back on the series, each episode was very well done, with a very strong emphasis on personal stakes and people with flawed morality. The actually overall plot arc was surprisingly thin. I say “surprisingly” because there was no reason why the show shouldn’t…
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Review: Black Crab (Netflix)
Black Crab is a Swedish war dystopian war film released last year and it is an intriguing story mainly because of what it doesn’t do. Sometime in the near future Sweden (presumably – I don’t think this stated) is engulfed in a bloody and relentless civil war. Edh (Noomi Rapace) is a soldier in what…
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Review. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer
Daily Beast journalist Will Sommer has been covering the extremities of conservative thought for some time. As the co-presenter of the podcast Fever Dreams, he’s been a key figure documenting QAnon over the past few years. Trust the Plan is a broad account of the rise of QAnon and its subsequent evolution into a free-floating…
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Not really a review of Picard Season 3 episodes 1 & 2
Luckily (or perhaps unluckily), Picard Season 3 is still available in Australia on a service I have rather than Paramount+. I’m watching it and two episodes in, it is fine so far but…well we’ve been here before and both previous seasons have ended up weaker as they progressed. This final season appears to be leaning…
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Quantumania is a bit dull
I didn’t set out to watch the new Ant Man film but circumstances conspired to put me in a cinema. The promise of the film was a visual treat and there are certainly some vivid ideas on the screen. If I’d paid AU$20 for an art book of the concept pictures for this film and…
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A preliminary review of Poker Face
I really enjoyed the Natasha Lyonne lead series Russian Doll and I like the films of Rian Johnson, so I was very interested when the series Poker Face was announced. Lyonne has often been compared to Peter Falk and as a possible actor for an updated version of his most iconic role: Columbo. The connection…
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Batman versus the X-Men
In a fit of nostalgia I recently watched some episodes of 1990’s animated superhero cartoons: Batman the Animated Series (1992) and X-Men the Animated Series (also 1992). I might write about both at more length in the future but I was struck by something. In almost all regards, Batman was much better. It had a…
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Rewatching Nope [many spoilers]
I watched Jordan Peele’s Nope at the cinema when it was out and immediately wanted to watch it again but that’s not really an option when you are an adult and have things to do, so I had to wait until it was available to rent online. I enjoyed it as much the second time…
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Review: sitting in the dark really early in the morning
Today there was a brief power cut or it may have been a long power cut that started when I was asleep. I can’t think of a mechanism that would result in a power cut waking me up but it feels like it did. I woke up because the electricity stopped. Maybe the absence of…
Camestros Felapton
Two Time Hugo Award Finalist
Camestros Felapton 