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Hugo 24 Novellas: The Mimicking of Known Successes
Because I read this when it first came out but didn’t get around to writing a review, I thought I should re-read it for the Hugo reviews. Except I didn’t. And me not getting around to re-reading it completely stalled my attempt to review all of the novella finalists. But you didn’t come here to…
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Godzilla Minus One
I’d heard that this was a good film but it was nigh on impossible to see when it was in cinemas. Luckily, it is now available on Netflix and wow, it is exactly as good as people led me to believe. I don’t mean “it is good for a Godzilla film”, I mean this is…
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Doctor Who: 73 Yards – oh so many spoilers
So this post talks about the plot in detail and offers various ways of summarising the story. Don’t read it if you want to make your own mind up unspoiled.
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Doctor Who: Boom
The Lennon-McCartney of Doctor Who is back with Russell T Davies running the show and for this episode Steven Moffat writing. We do get a kind of medley of some of Moffat’s favourite things from the obvious (Anglican marines) to broader tropes (remanents of dead people continuing on electronically), as well as callbacks to multiple…
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X-Men97 is a good argument against new X-Men movies
I only got around to watching the X-Men97 finale yesterday. It was tremendous and ridiculous fun. Lots of angst, weird morality and piles of people fighting each other with mutant and techno-virus super-powers. As a series, it just got better and better but so much of it was weaponising nostalgia as its mutant superpower. The…
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Doctor Who: The Devil’s Chord
So introductions are over and the show launches into a direct sequel. The first season of Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor aimed to avoid “classic” monsters. Davies introduces a new baddie for the Doctor to fight in the form of Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon), a kind of malicious demigod of music. However, Maestro is a being of the…
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The Blog Comment of Cthulhu
I don’t often elevate comments on posts to become posts themselves but this one by Ken Finlayson was so excellent that it should get its own audience: https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/the-graphs-of-cthulhu/#comment-91684 “THE GRAPHS OF CTHULHU.(Found among the papers of Camestros Felapton, late of Bortsworth.) It should be that of all the sciences, arithmetic – being the most humble…
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Currently Watching: Delicious in Dungeon (Netflix)
The Netflix anime series based on the manga ダンジョン飯 (Danjon Meshi) is an excellent example of how to make heavy use of the familiar to do something unusual. In a very standard RPG-like world of dwarves, elves, magic-users and dragons, a party of adventures are on a quest to the deepest level of a dungeon.…
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X-Men 97 is bottled nostalgia
When I rewatched the original 1990’s X-Men cartoon it was interesting to see that it wasn’t nearly as competent or as well put together as I remembered it being. It was still (largely) a pile of fun. The new X-Men 97 series is intended as a direct continuation of that original series and based on…
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Review: Zombie the Musical
I had to travel deep into Eastern parts of Sydney, an adventure that required changing trains more than once and finding myself in a land where real estate ceases to be merely horribly expensive and becomes priced beyond human comprehension. The tiny Hayes Theatre describes itself as “home for music theatre and cabaret in Sydney”…
Camestros Felapton
Каместрос Фелаптон
Camestros Felapton 