Category: Review
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My five star fantasy adventure novel review
The first five-star review of my fantasy adventure has landed! 5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and Imaginative Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2025 Format: Kindle I must say that it seems to me like a great deal of contemporary fantasy is either gratuitous angst, cringe-worthy remixes of hackneyed clichés or essentially just…porn…
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Nautilus TV series cancelled by Disney+
It’s a huge shame the latest screen version of Captain Nemo has been cancelled. Filming had been completed on Nautilus when the axe fell on the production as part of a cost cutting measure by returning Disney boss, CEO Bob Iger, who plans to trim $US3bn from its non-sports programming. Shazad Latif stars as an…
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Your fast guide to Captain Nemo
The work of Jules Verne continues to entertain movie and TV fans even if his books are less popular than they once were. So if you don’t know anything about Captain Nemo other than vague pop cultural references or having only seen the Disney adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the sea, I’ve put together a…
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My top five science fiction and fantasy holiday reads
As well as being a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan, and a film critic, I’m also a digital gamebook writer and illustrator, and I just wanted to share some of my favourite holiday reads with you all. Number 1The World for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinFirst published in 1972 this exciting, sad…
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Amazing art of Aaron Howdle
This blogpost is an appreciation of the work of super-talented artist, Aaron Howdle who was kind enough to send me the awesome steampunk submarine illustration at the top of this post. A DM chat led me to his website where reside more incredible work. My father was a draughtsman and growing up he had a…
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GAMEBOOK REVIEW: Tormentor Treetower
This blogpost is a review of Tormentor Treetower, a sword and sorcery gamebook, which is an action-packed and handsomely designed choose your own adventure in the classic manner of the Fighting Fantasy series. Armed with only a sword, some rations and a backpack, you have been taken it upon yourself to protect the local villagers…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Review
Harrison Ford picks up the famous fedora for the fifth time as Indiana Jones in this respectful and sufficiently entertaining yarn which seeks to put a cap on Ford’s appearances in the franchise. It’s another globe-trotting, Nazi-punching, treasure seeking adventure which goes through the motions at an impressive lick but never re-captures the magic. This…
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
This barkingly brilliant reboot of the classic 1980’s action franchise brings the Road Warrior thundering back in a cacophonous cloud of craziness which cranks up the frontier stylings of the previous instalment, and puts full-throttle four-wheeled action to the fore. It’s dystopian action eco-thriller, a pulse-quickening extended motorised chase across a hostile apocalyptic desert with the future…
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mel Gibson returned in 1985 for his third and final appearance as the eponymous road warrior in this lesser sequel which saw the Australian post-apocalypse action franchise drive in a new direction. Four years earlier Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior had amped up the thunderous four-wheeled mayhem of the high octane 1979 original while leaning…
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The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein was not Shelley’s only sci-fi novel, but those who feel a vision of 21st century England ravaged by plague and aristocratic power struggles may be a little too close to home, may wish to avoid this apocalyptic dystopian disaster story. Written in the wake of Frankenstein this also features a hero tormented by isolation,…
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