• TV Review – The Flash, Season 1, Episode 4

    This episode encapsulates the comic book and explodes it on to the small screen. Felicity Smoke (Emily Bett Rickards) and Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) steal this week’s addition of The Flash and make it the best one yet. Warning: Spoilers follow! As its title “Going Rogue” may suggest, this episode...
  • TV Review – The Strain, Season 1, Episode 9

    This week, with his team in tow, Eph saves his son from being infected, and with this, their fear and determinacy only increases, while the flashbacks finally reveal a first look at the Master’s face. Warning: Spoilers follow! In episode 9, ‘’The Disappeared’’, we see Matt (Drew Nelson) infected...
  • TV Review – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Season 2, Episode 3

    Warning: Spoilers follow! Agent Simmons is back, and so is the fantastic plotline and pacing set in the first episode. With returning foes and friends, this episode is a lot of fun, whilst also heightening the threat of HYDRA. In “Making Friends and Influencing People”, my favourite scene of the entire...
  • TV Review – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Season 2, Episode 2

    Titled “Heavy Is the Head”, the second episode of season 2 of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is sadly a definite step down from the epic season opener. Feeling very much like a filler episode, it continues the Crusher Creel storyline and brings it to a rather unsatisfactory end. Having said...
  • The John Lewis advert represents everything wrong with Christmas

    Yes, it’s cute. Yes, it’s a beautiful story of childhood memories and the fundamental desire for love and companionship. Yet, does the fact that an advertisement is now part and parcel of our Christmas season not scream of all that is wrong about the celebration? For a start, the...
  • TV Review – The Flash, Season 1, Episode 3

    As if ripped straight from the pages of The New 52’s Issue of Flash #28, this week’s “Things You Can’t Outrun” cements CW’s The Flash as a solid comic book show that comic book readers have been waiting for, as Barry has to deal with a similar predicament seen in the source material....
  • TV Review – The Strain, Season 1, Episode 8

    Warning: Spoilers follow! On The Strain this week, we see the vampire hunters Abe, Eph, Jim and Nora join forces with rat-killer/badass New Yorker Fet (Kevin Durand). Also, although many viewers may have a personal vendetta against the betrayer Jim, the tragic scene of his death was undoubtedly emotional. Fet brings a...