This year the summer holidays seemed to have been owned by the unlikely figure of T.J. Miller, deadpan comedian, supporting actor and eerily familiar background figure. In Yogi Bear he…
For those readers tuned into these things, clear evidence emerged this week of the ‘end of days’ and our impending annihilation - culturally at least. Simply put, Twilight: Eclipse is…
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
I grew up under the high-heeled jackboot of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, when post-apocalyptic visions of futuristic fascist dictatorships seemed to turn up as regularly as London buses. Back then we…