TV & Film

Guardians of the Galaxy: Review

 Steven Kellow    TV & Film  

Marvel’s latest summer blockbuster arrived with a somewhat strange feeling of unfamiliarity to it.  Away from the Avengers characters we have grown accustomed to the titular Guardians were a bunch of rag-tag randomers that very few people outside of the die-hard comic book fans would have known about.  So the hype around Guardians of the Galaxy wasn’t necessarily based on what had gone before, but around what Marvel could do to take their films in a new direction.  Happily, Guardians was something different, and a — Read more →

Immortals: Review

 Steven Kellow    TV & Film

Action films sometimes have to make the distinction between going for an all-out assault on the audience’s sense of excitement or weaving a good story around some exciting set-pieces.  Sadly, 2011 film Immortals chose another path – one that had no real ‘wow’ factor or a good story to write home about. Immortals is a film set in ancient Greece, riffing off some mythological folklore to create a relatively complicated plot that isn’t particularly new or engaging.  Years before the film, the immortals in Heaven — Read more →

Game of Thrones – Season 4: Review

 Steven Kellow    TV & Film  ,

This season was when Game of Thrones’ hype in the UK finally caught up with its’ popularity over the pond in America.  Season 4 of Game of Thrones has cemented its’ status as a new cultural phenomenon, and continued its’ intriguing tale of the fight for the iron throne. What this season did immensely well was focus on the close personal relationships between the characters.  The cast of lords, ladies, servants and serfs has always been fantastic, but never before have they interacted with such — Read more →

30 Rock – Season 7: A Belated Review

 Steven Kellow    TV & Film  

My favourite comedy show of the last decade is undoubtedly 30 Rock.  A sitcom that revolves around the makings of a Saturday Night Live-esque sketch show, TGS (The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan), its capacity for relentless off-the-wall jokes is unmatched.  It’s a show that fits my sense of humour perfectly. Sadly, 30 Rock came to an end in January 2013 with a shortened Season 7.  It was a critical darling, with Emmy nominations galore each year and great reviews, but it didn’t quite pull — Read more →

From Reality to Fiction

 Steven Kellow    Gàidhlig, TV & Film  

This is an English translation of the original post “Bho Fìrinn gu Ficsean“ Almost everyone I know is watching Game of Thrones at the moment, a TV program set around a civil war in a fictional land of Westeros that’s rather similar to medieval Britain.  It’s very good, even if I find it a little slow-going at times, and one of the things that makes the programme so gripping is how deep the backstory is.  Stories are told of kings from thousands of years before — Read more →

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