W M Parslow

My copy of The Devil in Silver. I’m currently reading The Devil in Silver  by Victor LaValle, which is the source for the next series of the horror anthology series The Terror . As Dan Simmons, who wrote The Terror , the historical Arctic horror that was adapted for the first series, has recently died, and as there are several horror adaptations on the horizon, I thought I’d look at what feels like a fairly modern debate – do you adapt for movie or TV? Now, when I say TV, I’m not talking...

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) expresses how I feel when an AI bro sounds off. Still from Daredevil series 3 Recently my social media feeds started showing me clips generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) engine called Seedance 2.0. These were all clips of fight scenes that the poster was breathlessly claiming needed ‘just one prompt’. Wolverine fighting Superman, Godzilla versus King Kong, Terminator fighting Robocop, there were plenty, all of which proclaimed that this video generator was...

A still from X-Men '97 episode 1 Before I start, I should make something clear. There have been some great X-Men movies over the years. X-Men 2  (or X2 ), and X-Men: Days of Future Past  are both superb movies that capture a lot of what Marvel’s mutants are all about. And then we have Logan , Marvel Studios’ The Dark Knight ; a film that stands up to ‘serious’ movies and in many cases leaves them for dust. But, if you ask this X-Men fan what has captured the spirit, themes and characters of...