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Terra Nova: Is This Retreat Into Prehistory The Future Of SciFi Telly?
But is this time travelling caper worth your time? Michael Moran investigates… A lot of people are saying a lot of nice things about Terra Nova, Sky 1's shiny new high-concept sci-fi show We didn't, but now it's running and picking up favourable reviews it was only fair to take another look. It certainly comes with some big names[...]
Review: Real Steel – Is It Zarjaz Or Is It Stomm?
Michael Moran reviews the movie all the cool kids are calling 'The Robot Rocky' Many modern thrillers take their inspiration from this morning's newspaper headlines Some sci-fi films are born out of some cutting edge research cribbed from last month's New Scientist Real Steel goes a little further back: It's a concept straight out of the golden-age 2000AD[...]
Downton Abbey Is 'Officially' The Best Show On TV
Michael Moran reports on the all-pervading power of ITV's Sunday night TV colossus You're a hip and edgy comic-book reading type We know because you're here. "So why", some of you hip and edgy comic-book reading types will be asking, "would a hip and edgy comic-book reading type like me be interested in Downton Abbey?". Well[...]
Review: The Change-Up. It's Face|Off with poop gags.
Michael Moran has been given a night off from supervising homework and attending ballet recitals to check out the latest gross-out comedy crowd-pleaser. The Change-up is a new R-rated comedy from Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin When you're considering whether to see a comedy there really is only one question: is it funny? Well is it? I'm pleased[...]
The Retreat Review: The Lesson Is Don't Go On Holiday With Thandie Newton
Michael Moran went to see new Brit thriller The Retreat for Bleeding Cool If you put them under enough pressure, even the Palme d'Or crowd will admit that everyone likes a bit of Bayhem Transformers, Batman, Die Hard, James Bond, they're the names that attract the really big crowds to cinemas. But sometimes you need to get[...]