Sci-Fi and Fantasy

5 Gifted Directors who Lost the Plot A.P. Atkinstein and Seth Goldwynn Being a creative genius is hard. Attractive women don’t check out guys thinking, ‘I wonder if he could come up with a new idea that moves his chosen medium of expression forward in any significant way?’ Bankers don’t look at financial reports and […]

5 Obscure Low-Budget Sci-Fi Movies (That are AWESOME!) Mr A.P. Anderson and Agent Godwynn Hollywood is great and all, but sometimes it’s just nice to see a film that isn’t trying to ram identity politics down your throat, has a tiny bit of creativity about it, and isn’t made by people with a complete disconnect

80s Action TV Cliches A.P. Barracuson and Seth Knightwynn If you grew up in the 80s, you probably knew and Loved Knight Rider, Airwolf, The A-Team, Street Hawk, Blue Thunder and a host of other action TV shows that varied hugely in terms of quality. These shows never took themselves seriously; they were fun entertainment

Star Wars: Fixing the Prequels To the drawing board and back again Darth Sethwynn and A.P. D5 – and some dude called Rob Seth’s Take If there’s one thing I think we can all agree on, it’s that no matter how bad the Star Wars prequels were, the sequels elevated them to the stuff of

How to Heal the Doctor Or at least plaster over the cracks… Doctor Jack and Sethros Doctor Who is broken. Doctor who couldn’t be more broken if he had regenerated into the shell of an old lawnmower. If this show was a horse, then the kindest thing would be to take it out the back

How Doctor Who Really got Broken What does it really take to destroy the past? Lord Jack of Gallifrey and Sir Seth the Godwynnian There can’t be many people left with an ounce of discernment who don’t think that modern incarnations of Doctor Who have got a bit bad. It seems that the only people

5 Greatest Antiheroes By Darth Jackinson and Seth Skywanker An antihero is someone who lacks conventional heroic qualities, and does the right thing for the wrong reasons, or the wrong thing with a good outcome. In the stories they occupy, they take the place of a hero, but they do very unheroic things to achieve

5 Common Overused Sci-fi Tropes A.P. Zappkinson and Seth Hyperwynn Science fiction is obviously the best genre in the known universe, but for every Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams there is creating it, there’s a J.J. Abrams and Veronica Roth ripping it apart. These dreadful hacks throw in any old nonsense they think will work,

Rorschach: The Myth vs The Man By Seth ‘The Silk Gopher’ Godwynn Nobody reads the graphic novel ‘Watchmen’ and thinks to themselves, ‘I didn’t think much of that Rorschach chap.’ Even those who have only seen the movie would generally agree. Those that have done both, in either order, are probably wondering why he confuses