Best SF Directors of all Time (Part 2)
Numbers fourteen down to seven on the list are here, if you missed it. If not, may I present the final countdown:
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Category: Reviews
An Aurealis Nomination (plus recommendations for the Ditmars)
I was fucking chuffed to have received my first (and shit, maybe last) Aurealis Award nomination a few days ago. For the uninitiated, the Aurealis Awards are the juried prize for best genre fiction in Australia. 
The short story – …
Best SF Directors of all Time (part 1)
Let me pose this scenario: you’re a geek (shut up, you are). You’re marooned on Mars (shut up, just go with this). You’ve got enough food and water to last until the resupply mission arrives in eighteen months. You may …
Rogue One – the Scarif Problem
This isn’t a review of the entire film. There are plenty of those around, written by better critics than I. All I’ll say is this: I enjoyed Rogue One. It was a flawed, but welcome addition to the franchise. …
Five Favourite Books of 2016
Read about 45 this year, plus shitloads of academic articles, and watched an abundance of film and television. I’ll stick to books here, other than to say that, for mine, The Expanse was the best TV of 2016.
In no …
Quick Reviews: Daredevil, Seasons 1 – 2; Vikings, Seasons 1 – 2; Person of Interest, All Seasons; Troll Hunter; Broadchurch, Season 1; Peaky Blinders, Seasons 1 – 2; BoJack Horseman, Seasons 1 – 3; Better Call Saul, Seasons 1 – 2
Vikings Season 1 – 2 (Canadian – Irish production)
Vikings is a bloody, meat-tearing, bare-arsed and tits-bared trek through Viking culture, mythology, and 
history. Ragnar Lothbrok’s (Australian Travis Fimmel) stare is enough to make shield maidens swoon and Saxons …
Existentialist Bat v Ayn Rand’s Dullard
I mean, it could have been worse. I was late to watching the movie – anyone with young children is always late to doing anything – but all I’d heard in the lead-up was the splat of pop-cultural fans and …
Oscar Predictions (and Bets)
Mad Max Fury Road will walk away with seven Oscars this year. Three Oscars less than this masterpiece warrants. 
The ones that really matter and that Fury Road deserves to win – Picture, Director, and Cinematography – will go to …
The best books, movies, and TV of 2015
I saw a bunch of movies, read around fifty books, and found time to watch a few different TV series this year. I’ve collated the best of that I can remember – and presumably sticking in the mind is one …
The Starkiller Problem
Let me make one thing clear before this rant begins: Starkiller Base looks amazing. The First Order standing out there on the plain, fucking space Nazis – that was a great shot. The Force Awakens, too, is a welcome …