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Godzilla is Now an Official Citizen of Japan

June 5, 2015

Godzilla has been granted official residency in Japan following his appointment as a special tourism ambassador last month. 3000 special residency certificates were handed out to fans. The certificate reads:... Read More...

Why We Won’t Be Watching Avatar 2

C S Hughes

June 3, 2015

Film & TV

James Cameron's Avatar was a brilliant piece of epic sci-fi entertainment. A hero overcoming both injury and tragedy, finding a just cause, flight and freedom, a beautifully realized, lush alien world, at once ... Read More...

Eurovision at 60: A Personal History Of The Songs That Made Us Secretly Love the Eurovision Song Contest

Neil Kemp

June 1, 2015

Film & TV, Music

Eurovision; the song contest that we all love to hate. Or do we? Having pretty much literally grown up alongside this European singing extravaganza, I have to admit to being rather surprised at the impact that ... Read More...

Mad Max: Slightly Grumpy Road

C S Hughes

May 28, 2015

Film & TV

Mad Max: Fury Road opens at ballistic, immediately escalates to nuclear, and then ramps up on to whatever the hell is more intense and manic than that. Maybe supernova, but that's a little too clean, all lovely... Read More...

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Is Back!

C S Hughes

May 16, 2015

Film & TV

David Lynch has announced on Twitter that Twin Peaks, with Lynch and Frost at the helm, is going ahead. Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks ret... Read More...

INFINI Sci-Fi Action Thriller DVD Giveaway!

C S Hughes

May 13, 2015

Film & TV

To celebrate the release on digital of the Australian blockbuster sci-fi action thriller INFINI, starring Daniel MacPherson and Luke Hemsworth, and directed by Shane Abbess, we're giving away a collection with ... Read More...

Avengers Age Of Ultron: Captain America Came Out And Nobody Noticed

C S Hughes

May 11, 2015

Film & TV

SPOILERS! Superheroes are coming out. In the universes of comic books it seems a fairly conventional device, difference in sexuality is easily accepted, prejudice against mutation, against enhancement, again... Read More...

INFINI Daniel MacPherson Stars In An Australian Sci-Fi Landmark

C S Hughes

May 7, 2015

Film & TV

Australian actor Daniel MacPherson described his role as Whit Carmichael in the Australian Sci-Fi thriller INFINI as, "Without doubt the most daunting, challenging, and ultimately rewarding role of my career." ... Read More...

Infini – Bad Things Happen – Exclusive Clip

C S Hughes

May 4, 2015

Film & TV

Don't be fooled. At first glance Infini looks like a clone of classics like 2001 or Alien, Event Horizon and more recent films like Pandorum. Claustrophobic sci-fi horror thrillers where a crew is trapped on a ... Read More...

Vader Lives! Luke, Han, Chewie and Vader in New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

C S Hughes

April 17, 2015

Film & TV

Is this the world's biggest tease or the world's biggest spoiler? In the new official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we hear Luke, narrating, we see a grim image of Darth Vader's mangled mask, and he... Read More...

Twin Peaks Without David Lynch Is Like….

C S Hughes

April 10, 2015

Film & TV

In October, 2014 David Lynch announced that groundbreaking cult classic Twin Peaks would be returning in 2016, fulfilling Laura Palmer's prophecy in the final episode, inside the surreal red curtained psychic d... Read More...

Spock Is Eternal

C S Hughes

March 4, 2015

Film & TV, People

There are few characters that are eternal, that embody so well the universal spirit that they become part of the cultural memory. Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes come to mind, and Arthur Pendragon, and Monkey. A... Read More...

BBC’s Australian Convict Drama Banished

Neil Kemp

March 4, 2015

Film & TV

Banished, a new BBC drama series by Jimmy McGovern, is inspired by the events of the late 1780's when Britain deported its unwanted citizens to the very edge of the known world. The drama opens in New South Wa... Read More...

Wolf Hall Finale: Master of Propaganda

Olga Hughes

March 3, 2015

Film & TV, History

Peter Straughan was facing two major problems when adapting Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for television. The first was trying to condense two novels of around 1200 pages into six hours of television. Not t... Read More...

Wolf Hall Episode 5: A Murder of Crows

Olga Hughes

February 21, 2015

Film & TV, History

You have to wonder if it should really be this simple to gloss over the judicial murders of six innocent people. The Wolf Hall version of the world is decorated with a supporting cast of marionettes built of ar... Read More...

Amazon Greenlights Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle

C S Hughes

February 19, 2015

Film & TV

Recently in conjunction with Ridley Scott and the Electric Shepherd Company Amazon's TV and film production arm Amazon Studios produced a pilot based on Philip K Dick's 1962 Hugo Award Winning novel, The Man In... Read More...

Wow Wachowskis “Jupiter Ascending” Giveaway!

C S Hughes

February 17, 2015

Film & TV

Perhaps you remember Rutger Hauer's soliloquy near the end of Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece, Blade Runner, in which the rogue replicant, railing against the limits of his artificially premature mortality, dec... Read More...