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The adaptation of HBO’s Game of Thrones: Part One

3 July 2012

Adaptation, Fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, HBO

Season Two of HBO’s Game of Thrones has come and gone, and a third season is on the way in 2013. This time last year I was fully hooked, got by GoT you could say, and my enthusiasm for the series knew no bounds. This year, in the wake of Season Two, my enthusiasm is…

The adaptation of HBO’s Game of Thrones: Part Two

2 July 2012

Gerard Wood

Books, Screen

Adaptation, Fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, HBO

Broadly speaking there are three categories of change introduced in Season Two of HBO’s Game of Thrones. For the sake of brevity in an already overly long article, I’ll restrict myself to a few examples, but many more could be provided. [This article continues from The adaptation of HBO’s Game of Thrones: Part One.] The…

Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire

12 May 2012

Gerard Wood

Books, Reviews

Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Review

It’s not often that SF and Fantasy literature gets the serious attention it deserves from critics and the academies of higher learning, and what attention has been received over the years has tended to dismiss it for a failure to address reality, for being concerned with plot over character, and for any number of other…

Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: A review (of sorts)

20 April 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Marvel, Review, Superhero

Joss Whedon’s The Avengers has robbed me of my critical mojo! If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ll know that my reviews of SF and fantasy media tend towards critical analysis. I don’t apologise for that. Entertainment is never just entertainment and there are values and messages both subtle and overt embedded in…

Game of Thrones Season One on DVD and Blu-ray

17 March 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, HBO

With little over three weeks until Season Two of HBO’s Game of Thrones premiers on April 1, Season One of this extraordinary series was finally released on DVD and Blu-ray. HBO certainly kept us waiting for the complete first season on disc, but I’m sure few will feel that the wait has not been worth…

The final chapter in Richard Carpenter’s iconic Robin of Sherwood now on Blu-ray

6 March 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Fantasy, Robin Hood

Richard Carpenter’s BAFTA award-winning series Robin of Sherwood first aired some 28 years ago in the UK, and while it only ran for three seasons, it remains for many of us who watched it then, and for many more who have seen it since, the pre-eminent version of the Robin Hood legend yet to grace…

John Carter (The Bold and the Beautiful of Mars)

2 March 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Adaptation, Fantasy

On paper, Disney’s John Carter has much going for it. First and foremost, it’s an adaptation of the enduring pulp fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Perhaps best known as the creator of Tarzan, Burroughs’ creations have been hugely influential and have stood the test of time to become classics of the pulp form. Based on…

A look back at Merlin Season Three

4 February 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Fantasy, Merlin, TV

Season Four of Merlin has come and gone in the UK and those of us who have seen it will probably agree that this latest season exceeded what came before. The same could be said of the third and second seasons as Merlin improves with each passing year. Filming of the fifth season is due to…

Being Human Series Four: a transmuted, revamped ghost of itself?

17 January 2012

Gerard Wood

Reviews, Screen

Being Human, Fantasy, Horror, TV

When we reported back in May 2011 that the superb British series Being Human was returning for a fourth season featuring new characters and an epic new story line, we failed to appreciate that the new characters wouldn’t be supplementing the established cast so much as replacing them. Between Series Three and Four, three of…

15th Anniversary for Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

22 November 2011

Gerard Wood

Books, Screen

China Mieville, Neil Gaiman, Urban Fantasy

I love an urban fantasy, especially one set in that multifaceted gem of a city that is London. This was the city of my childhood so perhaps my perception is skewed, but to my mind no other city is quite so magical and yet mundane, benign and yet sinister, slipping from one state to another…

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The adaptation of HBO’s Game of Thrones: Part One

The adaptation of HBO’s Game of Thrones: Part Two

Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire

Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: A review (of sorts)

Game of Thrones Season One on DVD and Blu-ray

The final chapter in Richard Carpenter’s iconic Robin of Sherwood now on Blu-ray

John Carter (The Bold and the Beautiful of Mars)

A look back at Merlin Season Three

Being Human Series Four: a transmuted, revamped ghost of itself?

15th Anniversary for Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

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