Not that long ago, in a studio not too far away…

Turmoil has engulfed the once peaceful and proud Lucasfilm franchise. It is a period of [not so] civil war as a small band of separatist fans, feeling betrayed by “The Last Jedi”, lay siege to the latest “Star Wars” offering. Meanwhile, there is unrest within the production and Supreme Leader Kathleen Kennedy has very publicly dispatched Phil Lord…

*SPOILERS* I’d be lying if I said I was boldly going in to the season finale. The going has been pretty rough at times and with a series that’s proved itself so inept at delivering payoffs to its (often admittedly impressive) setups, part of me dreaded the thought of what such a series would do with a season finale to play with. With Starfleet deciding to enact a plan concocted by a psychotic,…

Ron Howard, you’ve done it again. Hollywood’s most chameleonic director transforms his style once more to give us a vividly realised world of Whoville and its nearby mountain dweller, The Grinch. Adaptations of Dr Seuss are tricky things as much of the joy of his books is from the rhyme and metre of the verse and not just the worlds and characters contained therein. There can be a tendency to…