Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3… While Strange New Worlds, like much of Star Trek has often been built around self-contained stories, there are overarching plot threads, and ‘Four-and-a-Half Vulcans’ is a sequel of sorts to the season 2 episode ‘Charades‘. That episode saw Spock become fully […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘What is Starfleet?’
Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds… Strange New Worlds has never been afraid to shy away from genre episodes with a murder mystery homage just a few weeks ago, and “What is Starfleet?” borrows from found footage and documentaries as we follow Beto, Ortega’s brother, filming a documentary on […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail’
Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3… While it may follow Captain Pike as captain, Strange New Worlds has always been a prequel both tonally and in terms of setting to The Original Series. This has never been truer than in “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail”. This […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Through the Lens of Time’
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3… As it hurtles towards its midpoint, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season has lost none of the momentum of the first two seasons following the earlier crew of the USS Enterprise. The fifth episode “Through the Lens of Time”, follows […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘A Space Hour Adventure’
Chris Connor reviews the fourth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3… While Strange New Worlds’ third season has to this point been focused on the Gorn and ongoing plot threads, the fourth episode ‘A Space Hour Adventure’ offers another venture into genre with a murder mystery interlude. The holodeck is a component […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 3 Review – “Shuttle to Kenfori”
Chris Connor reviews the third episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3… Strange New Worlds’ third season started off in emphatic fashion, picking up from the end of season two cliffhanger and showing how The Enterprise escaped the clutches of The Gorn, while episode two brought some comedy especially from guest star Rhys […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episodes 1 & 2 Review
Chris Connor reviews the season 3 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds… Strange New Worlds has been one of the best-received Star Trek shows in some time, with a formula that meticulously blends an enthralling adventure and a contemporary feel. It recalls the original series with William Shatner, but is far from derivative. Season […]
Batman Begins at 20: How it reinvented franchise filmmaking
Chris Connor on Batman Begins as it turns 20… It is hard now to think that Batman had become somewhat of a laughing stock in the late 90s through the early 00s, supplanted by the likes of Spider-Man and X-Men who had both launched their own successful franchises in the years following the Dark Knight’s […]
2025 SXSW London Film Festival Review – Winter in Sokcho
Winter in Sokcho, 2024. Directed by Koya Kamura. Starring Bella Kim, Roschdy Zem, Mi-hyeon Park, Tae-ho Ryu, Doyu Gong, Kyung-soon Jung. SYNOPSIS: A young Korean girl’s life takes an unexpected turn when a French artist visits her country, disrupting her routine. Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel Winter in Sokcho was a big hit in France on […]
Movie Review – Tornado (2025)
Tornado, 2025. Written and Directed by John Maclean. Starring Kōki, Tim Roth, Jack Lowden, Takehiro Hira, and Joanne Whalley. SYNOPSIS: A Japanese puppeteer’s daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar. Director John Maclean burst onto the scene with 2015’s […]
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