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Tomorrow’s World: Part 2 – Modern Sci-Fi, the technology around the corner and how it may destroy us

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Tom Jolliffe on modern sci-fi, the technology around the corner and how it may destroy us… As far as Science Fiction goes, the film and TV shows that audiences have watched over the years have often featured some sense of foreboding. What happens if… This could be James Cameron’s Terminator which shows a world in […]

Black Mirror to be adapted into a book series

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Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror has made quite an impact since its inception in 2011. The show made waves domestically, as well as internationally, until it was eventually shipped over to Netflix streaming for a phenomenal third season. With a fourth season currently in the works, series creator Brooker certainly has his hands full. However, Brooker has […]

Hannibal’s David Slade to direct an episode of Black Mirror Season 4

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Director David Slade has recently revealed that he is contributing to season four of Black Mirror. If you don’t know the man by name, then you surely know him by his work: he directed the movie-adaptation of 30 Days of Night several years back, the indie-gem Hard Candy, as well as episodes of (the incredible) Hannibal, and American Gods. He […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror – Day 9: Black Mirror – White Christmas (2014)

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Black Mirror: White Christmas, 2014. Directed by Carl Tibbets. Starring Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin and Rafe Spall. SYNOPSIS: Two strangers stationed at an isolated Arctic outpost tell each other three twisted festive tales each with a technological theme and a connection to the dark pasts of both men. We return once again to quite possibly […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Shut Up and Dance’

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Tony Black reviews the third episode of Black Mirror season 3, ‘Shut Up and Dance’… You know those TV episodes or movies that are almost unqualified genius but you can’t ever bring yourself to watch them again? Black Mirror has given me one here with ‘Shut Up and Dance’, which might well be the most […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Playtest’

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Tony Black reviews the second episode of Black Mirror season 3… Charlie Brooker has always been a big gamer, growing up in the 80’s with the advent of the home entertainment system, through to middle age as this year we enter the realm of PlayStation VR – the true first step after Kinect & Google […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 1 – ‘Nosedive’

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Tony Black reviews Black Mirror – ‘Nosedive’… We can all pretty much stop now and agree that Charlie Brooker is a genius, right? Love him or not as a personality presenting the Wipe program on the BBC or his Guardian articles/books, but Black Mirror has within two painfully short seasons on Channel 4 become The […]