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Film Antrum Michael Flett September 27, 2020 It was called Antrum, a largely forgotten low-budget film believed to have been shot in Eastern Europe in the late seventies, a tale of two siblings spending the Read More

TV Say Your Prayers Michael Flett September 18, 2020 The Ilkley Literature Festival, a chance to meet authors and publishers, to discuss new works and classics, to relax in the historic West Yorkshire town in the company Read More

Film Bill & Ted Face the Music Michael Flett September 17, 2020 It’s been twenty-five long years since destiny came calling for William S “Bill” Preston, Esq and Theodore “Ted” Logan outside the San Dimas Circle K; they passed their Read More

Film Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon Michael Flett September 14, 2020 A pioneer of early film and of science fiction, and also of trick photography and special effects which have remained so central to the cinematic illusions of that Read More

Film This Gun for Hire Michael Flett September 13, 2020 The Marchbank Hotel, San Francisco, where a killer bides his time feeding a stray cat, waiting for confirmation of a hit: a time, a place and a name, Read More

TV Becky Michael Flett September 13, 2020 “Becky is as strong-willed and vindictive as they come.” Perhaps not a recommendation in the traditional sense, particularly from a prospective step-parent when speaking about her fiancé’s thirteen-year-old Read More

Film Tenet Michael Flett September 4, 2020 Entropy increases. A fundamental tenet of the physical universe as described by the third law of thermodynamics, once an action has been taken to shift a system from Read More

Film The New Mutants Michael Flett September 4, 2020 Five troubled teenagers and twenty-somethings, the only patients in a sprawling, run-down hospital, locked in their rooms at night as though they were prisoners, miles from the nearest Read More

Film The Comic Michael Flett September 2, 2020 The eighties are remembered as an era of excess and success, but like the crumbling pyramids of Egypt or statues of slave traders waiting to be toppled it Read More