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TV REVIEW: Paper Girls 1.01

August 9, 2022August 2, 2022 Grant Watson

Why are we so nostalgic for the 1980s? It seems audiences cannot get enough of the decade, particularly in terms of American popular culture. Everyone is listening to 1980s music, or watching sequels and reboots of 1980s properties. The USA … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Paper Girls 1.01

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TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.04

July 27, 2022July 20, 2022 Grant Watson

“Part Four” George Lucas is, as most people know, somewhat obsessed with literature professor Joseph Campbell and his attempt to codify and define the idea of myth. His films have been almost entirely defined by the idea of the mythic … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.04

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TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.03

July 19, 2022July 12, 2022 Grant Watson

The plot develops and events occur, but really there is only one thing to talk about when it comes to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s third episode – so let us get straight to it. Spoiler-phobes beware. ‘When I left you,’ Darth Vader … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.03

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REVIEW: Thor: Love & Thunder (2022)

July 5, 2022 Grant Watson

Let us talk briefly about bathos. Most people are generally familiar with its homonym pathos, which is an act of persuading an audience via an appeal to their emotions. It describes the technique of most drama, with an artist deliberately choosing … Continue reading REVIEW: Thor: Love & Thunder (2022)

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TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.02

June 15, 2022June 8, 2022 Grant Watson

Part Two Note that, as a review of Part Two, this review will understandably reference events in Part One. Caveat emptor, and so on. When going forward in reviewing Disney+ serial Obi-Wan Kenobi, it should be taken as read that … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.02

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REVIEW: The Rift (1990)

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Grant Watson

Go figure: you cannot easily watch James Cameron’s superlative film The Abyss (1989) on a streaming service – the closest you will get is the online stream of Australian pay television service Foxtel – but you can watch Juan Piquer Simon’s … Continue reading REVIEW: The Rift (1990)

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TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.01

June 5, 2022August 3, 2022 Grant Watson

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy noted that the company had learned valuable lessons from their failed live-action Star Wars film Solo. The problem is that the company appears to have learned the wrong lessons. … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.01

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TV REVIEW: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.01

May 16, 2022May 8, 2022 Grant Watson

“Strange New Worlds” I really do not like prequels. Anyone that has followed my film writing over the past decade or two will no doubt be aware of this, but it bears repeating. Nothing of dramatic worth comes from a … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.01

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REVIEW: Gamera vs Jiger (1970)

April 13, 2022 Grant Watson

Daiei’s original Gamera franchise limped on into the 1970s, with a much-needed increase in the production budget but a general lack of enthusiasm that sours the experience. This sixth adventure for the giant space turtle and ‘friend to all children’ did not … Continue reading REVIEW: Gamera vs Jiger (1970)

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REVIEW: Venom (2018)

April 6, 2022 Grant Watson

So basically Sony went a bit mad, and the first result was the 2018 comic book adaptation Venom. It has taken me a long time to watch it; so long, in fact, that its sequel has already come and gone. … Continue reading REVIEW: Venom (2018)

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