Ken 20/02/2017 Ken 20/02/2017

Holy Lego Bricks, Batman - The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Everyone has their own favourite take on the Batman character (and they will talk a lot about why their favourite is the 'right' one, ignoring every other Batman presented before them.) So it's quite rewarding to watch a film that brings the best of every Batman together, clicking the pieces into one functional and enjoyable whole.

Just like Lego really.

Well...that was an easy segue.

Ken 19/02/2017 Ken 19/02/2017

We Are Legi(x)n - Legion, Season 1

I'm now two whole episodes into Legion on FX and I'm sure I'm not the only person to come to something of a revelation: this may be the most X-Men thing to ever X-Men. Ever.

It's not a terribly big secret, but I guess it sort of is: I haven't noticed the word "mutant" being used (yet...it's due in the third episode if I'm to believe the trailer) but it's probably starting to become obvious that the series is thinly connected to the X-Men universe. At this moment in time, main character David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) is the only characters to have a direct relative in the world of comic-books, but it's a pretty explicit connection.

Ken 06/02/2017 Ken 06/02/2017

Up Up Down Down - As Above, So Below (2014)

In some alternate universe, I still write regular movie and video-game reviews, running my own entertainment website. In that same universe, I am now A FUCKING MEDIA MOGUL and next in line to be president of an undefined country.

In this universe, however, I'm a normal guy who's fallen out of the habit of being creative, shut down his old website and doesn't even have that many movies under the Reviews tab of this blog.

Ken 14/01/2017 Ken 14/01/2017

That One Kids TV Show You Barely Remember

Over the last few months, I've noticed little things coming back. Whether it's my brain firing synapses that haven't been touched in a very long time or if it's that things from the past are becoming cool once more, I'm not entirely sure.

RETRO IS IN, I declare to nobody in particular.

Ken 10/05/2016 Ken 10/05/2016

Civil War & Peace - Captain America: Civil War (2016)

It takes a special type of film to pit multiple superheroes against each other, to put good guys up against other good guys and see what happens.

Captain America: Civil War isn't even the only such film out this quarter. (Okay, so depending on where and when your quarter starts and finishes, maybe it's not the same quarter, but this film came out around six weeks after Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.)

Ken 04/05/2016 Ken 04/05/2016

10 Things About Cancer Treatment Nobody Talks About

I'm a full year out of the madness, 366 days (it's a leap-year after all) on from treatment for a "grade two astrocytoma with grade three elements." It's a posh way of saying I had a brain tumour, and it was sort of cancerous. That's a full year on from feeling like shit every other day, wondering why your body has betrayed you and just how it's going to get worse.

I can now say, with a weird sense of guilt and a weirder sense of terror that "I've gotten better."

Kind of better. I don't want to jinx it.

Ken 12/04/2016 Ken 12/04/2016

From The Cave To The Heavens - Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)

Yeah, I saw Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. At this stage, a lot of people have seen it.

And a lot of people didn't like it.

No, I'm holding my punches there: a lot of people hated it, and have been spewing such horrible, affected vitriol in the general directions of this film that its making me question their fucking sanity. Because it's a film about fictional characters, and if you care that much about these characters and how they have been 'ruined' by this movie, then you don't really understand much about fiction or these characters.