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Review – Supergirl Pilot Episode

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Starting a new series is always exciting, especially when they’re about superheroes… Female superheroes! I could say I didn’t know much about Supergirl and that would be the biggest understatement ever. I have absolutely no clue about anything related to her or Superman. To be completely honest, I have to say I’ve never really been a massive fan of DC Comics until recently, and that’s thanks to movies, series and, yeah, OK, comics. When I was a teenager, most of my comics were Image, or similar, or Spiderman. The cool thing about them was that there were a lot of female lead characters. The bad thing about it was that they were mostly hyper-sexualised versions of Barbie dolls. Characters like Witchblade (Image), Fathom (Top Cow), and the likes were really aimed at guys, I guess. I definitely didn’t feel identified with any of them. Even Tomb Raider comics (didn’t remember the publisher, but it seems it’s Top Cow too). I also read Crimson (Image/WildStorm). What all of them had in common were the same: busty …

Book Club #8 – Oryx and Crake

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The latest book of the Book Club I’ve read is Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood. We chose this book because it was the favourite of one of the Book Club members (we’ve been a steady three since the beginning, so we get to choose whatever we want to read) and I had been looking forward to reading it. It took me ages to finish it, and I’m afraid I’ve dragged the calendar behind a bit for the other two. It’s not that I hated it or anything like that, it’s just that I didn’t seem to get through it at all. I felt like I was reading for hours (as in starting straight from work and stopping in bed) and the pages weren’t moving at all. The story follows this guy, Snowman, who lives in a post-apocalyptic place and time. We don’t know what has happened, but we know he’s the only one like himself (like us). He lives near a tribe of creatures, people-like, called the Crakers. These creatures are beautiful, they don’t …

Star Wars

In a galaxy far away…

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On one hand, I feel a bit guilty about writing about Secret Cinema, you know, because it’s supposed to be secret and all that. On the other, I really want to share everything I can remember about it with all of you. I don’t want to spoil a lot of what goes on, so this might end up a really weird post. We’ll see… Just in case I don’t manage to keep the post spoiler-free (let’s be honest, I won’t manage), keep reading at your own risk and don’t blame me if you end up reading something you didn’t want to… Deal? I knew about Secret Cinema for a while, in the format of not knowing the location of a film until just a bit earlier (a few days or hours, I didn’t have all the details figured out), but I had never attended one. Last summer, in 2014, they did a Back To The Future one, in which that was the film they were showing all summer, and in theory, it was supposed to …

It’s not over before it’s too late

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Last night I went to see the American Idiot musical at the Arts Theatre. I was very excited to watch this musical because Green Day is my favourite band ever. When I tell people Green Day is my favourite band, I get a few surprised looks here and there, I don’t understand why. I guess I don’t look like I would listen to that kind of music, I don’t know (incidentally, I also used to listen to Bad Religion and other similar bands!). As I’ve written before, I like all kinds of music, I don’t have a favourite genre anymore, and it’s more a matter of favourite songs and bands. Taste changes and bands come and go, but Green Day has always been my favourite since the first time I heard Basket Case, many years ago. I remember I bought (yes, bought) the cassette tape for Dookie and I spent hours studying the artwork and learning the lyrics. For those of you too young to know what a cassette tape is, check here. Later on, …