The plot is a quest, as fantasy often is ... but good writing and humour make it a very enjoyable read.
read more'Hellsing' - Book/Manga Review
Fantastically stylish black-and-white bloodshed with a master vampire battling armies of vampires and werewolves ...
read more'The Great Wall' - Movie Review
Aims for "epic," lands (with a bit of a thud) squarely on "dull."
read more'The Mermaid' - Movie Review
Stephen Chow's humour continues to elude me. Completely.
read more'Warcraft' - Movie Review
Duncan Jones had so much promise. One of the worst movies of the year.
read more'Dragon Pearl' - Movie Review
If it wasn't "made-for-TV" it should have been, to save itself some embarrassment. A remarkably trashy kids fantasy movie.
read more'Tea with the Black Dragon' - Book Review
MacAvoy's first - and most successful - book, an urban fantasy mystery with ... well, almost no fantasy.
'Towing Jehovah' - Book Review
God's two mile long corpse is being towed across the Atlantic to the Artic by the Exxon Valdez ...
read more'Kubo and the Two Strings' - Movie Review
A lovely and highly recommended children's animated movie from Laika.
read moreRevisiting 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' - Book Review
Fantasy doesn't get any better than Susanna Clarke's "Strange and Norrell."
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