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Pandemonium – Limited Edition Blu-ray Review
Pandemonium. It can mean a few things. It’s a situation that causes confusion, it can be a wild uproar. It can also refer to the capital of Hell, as seen in Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, and it’s...
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The Long Good Friday (1980) – 4K UHD Review
Gangster movies are an industry onto themselves in Britain, with everything from Brighton Rock in 1948 to today’s Rise of the Footsoldier franchise. But while Guy Ritchie’s films are still being...
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The Valiant Ones (1975) – Blu-ray Review
Set during the Ming Dynasty, The Valiant Ones paints itself as a historical epic that plays it more realistic than most Wuxia movies, yet manages to still fall into the realm of the delightfully...
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The Afterlife of Mal Caldera (Nadi Reed Perez) – Book Review
Mal Caldera is definitely dead and has a lot more living to do. The title character in Nadi Reed Perez’s The Afterlife of Mal Caldera is a retired rockstar who despite (mostly) hanging up the raucous...
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Dancers of the Dawn (Zulekha A. Afzal) – Book Review
The premise behind Zulekha A. Afzal’s Dancers of the Dawn is pleasingly high-concept. In a fantasy kingdom ravaged in political intrigue and war, a troop of dancers traverse the desert on secret...
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Hits Different (Tasha Ghouri & Lizzie Huxley-Jones) – Book Review
Tasha Ghouri is perhaps best known for appearing on perennial summer hit Love Island and it’s perhaps fitting that her debut novel, Hits Different, is a sunshine-soaked romp about romance, overcoming...
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A Case of Mice and Murder (Sally Smith) – Book Review
Murder? Mice? The title of former-KC Sally Smith’s debut crime novel, A Case of Mice and Murder, is slightly deceptive upon first read. This is not a cosy crime story, set in a charming seaside locale,...
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The Black Orb (Ewhan Kim) – Book Review
The Black Orb – written by Korean scribe Ewhan Kim and translated by Sean Lin Halbert – opens on the horrifying sight of an ominous black globe engulfing people whole in downtown Seoul. The witness to...
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The Hobbit Encyclopedia – Book Review
On the 7th June 1966 during a speech in Cape Town, Robert F Kennedy said “There is a Chinese curse which says, ‘May he live in interesting times’.” It’s doubtful that this ever really was a Chinese...
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Writing the Murder (ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst) – Book Review
There’s been a murder… So commences the first essay in Writing the Murder, a collection of essays from a collection of renowned scribes, courtesy of Liverpool-based publisher Dead Ink Books. Essay...
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