Netflix is one of the world’s most popular websites, consuming 15% of the whole world’s internet traffic. It’s easy to see why: a huge back catalogue of old movies and TV shows, new ones and even original content; cult directors the Coen Brothers released their new movie, The Ballad of
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven's 1997 sci-fi satire of both militarism and fascism, was always supposed to be so ridiculous. If the concept of a group of galaxy trotting Space Marines battling overgrown cockroaches wasn’t enough to make you snicker, then the over-the-top, in your
After a prolonged absence, Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) makes it back to his Texas hometown to spend Christmas with his family. His parents are Christian Conservatives struggling to reconcile with the wider world around them, while his younger brother cannot shake the fact that he feels separate from the church,
For one reason or another, not every attempt at a film franchise is successful, but there is a story behind every failure. Writing under the name Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events series is bleak from the start, where the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, are orphaned
As child of the 80s I grew up with Transformers. I don’t mean in the sense that they raised me or anything but there was a time when my wallpaper, duvet cover, pyjamas and shoe laces were covered in Generation 1 figures. Jump ahead twenty years and I was sat
