Rom-coms can work. They can be wonderfully entertaining, or too cheesy. They can delight, and we know going in how things are going to work out, we just like to see how things fall into place. Sometimes that can elevate the genre, sometimes they just muddle about. Merv muddles about. It’s fairly basic, though it…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) -Garth Jennings
Grab your towel and Don’t Panic! Douglas Adam’s classic tale gets a big screen adaptation, of his book/screenplay, which had previously been so well used by the BBC as a miniseries, and before that a radio programme. There are things that work in this version, and things that don’t, but the effort is there to…
The Happening (2008) – M. Night Shyamalan
The Sci-Fi Chronicles continues its foray into the works of M. Night Shyamalan, and if Unbreakable didn’t disappoint you (and honestly I still like that one after all these years), this one was bound to. I think, this one would have worked so much better as a novel, expand out the characters, add a…
The Mind Reels 