ReviewBooks
50 Great Myths About Religion by John Morreall and Tamara Sonn (book review).
Last year, I reviewed ’50 Great Myths Of Popular Psychology’ by Scott Lilienfeld, so I wasn’t that surprised to see another book in…
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ReviewBooks
Grimm Below The Surface: The Insider’s Guide to the Show (book review).
‘Grimm’ is looking to consolidate itself as a solid cult series and what is better than spending some money on a glossy coffee…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Complete Series by Mark Campbell (book review).
A great title, ‘Doctor Who: The Complete Guide’ but no one book is ever quite going to cover the whole of ‘Doctor Who’,…
ReviewBooks
The Quest For A Moral Compass: A Global History Of Ethics by Kenan Malik (book review).
Kenan Malik’s ‘The Quest For A Moral Compass: A Global History Of Ethics’ book has a long title which actually tells the content…
ReviewScifi
The Eidolon by Libby McGugan (book review).
There are two distinct themes at work in Libby McGugan’s philosophical science thriller ‘The Eidolon’. One is the very interesting relationship between our…
ReviewHorror
Scream Park (2012) (DVD review).
How many years has it been since the heyday of drive-in movies where, especially in America, you could park your car at an…
ReviewScifi
The Art Of John Harris: Beyond The Horizon (book review).
I first put a name to the paintings of SF artist John Harris with his book, ‘Mass: The Art Of John Harris’, which…
NewsHorror
Proxy (film review by Frank Ochieng).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-chvqkdo5wU Writer-director Zach Parker’s slow burn and chilly-minded ‘Proxy’ is an intensifying horror vehicle that sneaks up on one’s nervous system with its observational dark…
ReviewBooks
Transmetropolitan Volume 4: The New Scum by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (graphic novel review).
The fourth volume of ‘Transmetropolitan’, ‘The New Scum’, continues the satire, brilliance and general nastiness of its predecessors whilst still managing to ramp…
ReviewScifi
Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer (book review).
Imagine the near future where Mars has a small colony going. Mostly, it’s populated with fossil hunters and auxiliary people who keep the…
ReviewFantasy
47 Ronin Blu-ray (film review).
Japanese culture has always seemed a bit strange to Americans. Not able to comprehend its complexities with the language a complete no-no, fighting…
ReviewBooks
The Paleoart Of Julius Csotonyi by Steve White and Julius Csotonyi (book review).
There is one immediate reaction from do a page flick of this book: WOW! Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi looks like he hopped into a…