What I've Been Watching: Southland (2009)

A month ago, I picked up Season 1 and 2 of NBC cop drama Southland from Amazon. I’d seen snippets from a random episode late one night on Channel 4 which seemed good, and the fact it starred Ben McKenzie (whom I’m a big fan of from his performance as Ryan on The O.C.), made me decide to get it.

Originally aired April 2009, the show is about the Los Angeles police force, and the show follows patrol officers as well as detectives from the gangs and homicide divisions. Having now watched the first season, which consists of seven episodes, I thought I would share some thoughts on it.

The art of John Romita Jr.

For a recent job application, I was asked to write a 200 word critique of an artist. Having never critiqued art, the work of an artist or styles of art, I thought I'd take a punt on something abit more left-field.

So I talked about one of my favourite comic-book artists of all time, John Romita Jr.

Look Back: Metroid Prime: Echoes (Wii)

Hey, d'you remember when I wrote about Metroid Prime, the first game in the Prime trilogy released for the Gamecube/Wii? Well here's an article about the 2004 follow-up from Retro Studios, Metroid Prime: Echoes

Flickering Myth Archive

Here is a link to my profile at the brilliant film website Flickering Myth. This is a way for anyone who visits the blog to see a list of articles I have written for the site, which includes:

- an episode by episode review of E4's Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (which I really liked)
- a pessimistic review of The Amazing Spider-Man trailer (which I'm probably wrong on)
- an optimistic review of the Rock of Ages trailer (which I was quite likely wrong on)
- a favourable review of Blackthorn
- an unfavourable review of Battleship
- a kind review of Ricky Gervais' Derek

Thor (2011)

Speaking of The Avengers, here's a review I wrote about Thor way back in June 2011:

A Marvel Movie retrospective: why were the other films important?

You know what was awesome? The Avengers:

You've probably seen the film by now. It is, after all, the third highest grossing film of all time. But many people probably didn't see the other Marvel films, so lets take a quick retrospective of the series, to see how the other films set up the characters and stories for what, I believe, is the most fun film of the year.

Amazing Spider-Man

So I recently wrote an article detailing my thoughts on the new trailer for this summer's Spider-Man reboot over on Flickering Myth available here

Part of me is still really excited. I remember liking the first teaser trailer, Garfield and Ifans are both awesome, and the action in this trailer, especially the fights between Spidey and the Lizard that will take place in the sewer and on the ceiling of what looks like a school, look absolutely great.

But I'm bored with the super-serious, dark and gritty tone, and while re-interpreting a character is fine, making one of my all-time favourite comic book character him into a whining, moping jerk just doesn't seem like a good idea...