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21 September 2015

Sense8: A Feast for the Senses

When I learned that J. Michael Straczynski, creator and writer of the brilliant Babylon 5, would be writing a new science fiction series, I was very excited. And to make things even more exciting, he was joining forces with the Wachowskis – who, despite the not-good-at-all Jupiter Ascending, are still pioneers of science fiction. Sense8, however, is different from anything they have ever done. In fact, it’s different from everything that ever has been done on television – at least as far as I can tell, and I do watch way too many TV shows. It’s not exactly science fiction. […]

13 September 2015

The Fall

In a sea of formulaic film fads full of replace heroes and exchangeable plots, it’s getting harder and harder to find films that are truly fantastic, fabulous and fascinating. But they are out there, and one such film which I have seen only this year, is Tarsem Singh’s 2006 film The Fall. The frame story is that of a curious little girl in a hospital in 1920s Los Angeles, who befriends a fellow patient, an injured stuntman (played by Lee Pace). He tells her a fantastic story of five peculiar heroes on a quest to find a woman. In her […]