American Horror Story: Coven
American Horror Story: Coven “So, apparently I’m a witch. It runs in my family. It doesn’t show up in every generation or in every girl. Like my cousin, Amanda—she’s just bulimic. We read about the Salem witch trials in my 5th grade. Guess I should have paid more attention.” Yep, American Horror Story returned for a third season and I finally caught up with it. You can read a review of Season One– Murder...
Superior… It’s Not.
Superior… It’s Not. I really have to start paying attention to what is going on in the world of comic books again; either that, or just stop recommending them. Because if Mark Millar’s Superior is what is being considered good work at the moment, then I’ve been doing a great disservice to some of my acquaintances who tend to mock any adult who admits to reading them. “Comics have grown up in the last twenty years”, I’ve been...
The Railway Man/ The Immigrant (2013)
The Railway Man/ / The Immigrant (2013) Of the three films that I’ve seen in the past week, two—The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Immigrant—have been hailed by critics whilst leaving me distinctly cold. The third—The Railway Man—received lukewarm reviews whilst leaving me in bits. That’s one of the many things that I love about the movies: we all see something different. The Railway Man...
Travels in Time and Wales with Dylan, the Doctor and Annie
Travels in Time and Wales with Dylan, the Doctor and Annie A version of this travel piece originally appeared in The Herald (Ireland) in May. It’s fair to say that if you are on a travel job that will take you to locations associated with the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914—1953) then you don’t expect one of the first shrines that you come across to be to a character from Torchwood, a television spin-off of Dr. Who. I’ve just...
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
5-Star Tedium: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) I occasionally meet keen young film student types and I always enjoy that marvelous feeling that you get from them; that buzz, that excitement at being on the edge of discovering something great. They remind me of how I felt as a teenager on a Tuesday when I would head for Glasgow. I’d see a movie either in the morning (they had that civilized habit there) or the afternoon. Then I’d...
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