Competently made reboot can't compare to its dazzlingly nasty original.
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Horrible beginning, taking interesting chances, interesting characters, but way too much magic.
read more'The Left Hand of Darkness' - Book Review
More about the concept of what-would-humans-be-like-without-gender than the political outreach the distant-feeling story is nominally about.
read more'Altered Carbon' Season 1 - TV Review
Very dark, too much action, but really thought-provoking. The ending is a bit of a blow-out mess, but overall definitely worth a watch.
read more'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' - Movie Review
Reminiscent of, and prettier than, Besson's "The Fifth Element," you'd be doing yourself a favour to rewatch the older movie rather than seeing this.
read more'Sense8' Season 2 - TV Review
Great characters with some lousy ideas - another mixed season.
read more'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' - Movie Review
Classic early James Cameron movie shows his failings and promise.
read more'Star Trek: Nemesis' - Movie Review
Not the worst Star Trek movie, but you'll have forgotten it in a week even though shit blows up.
read more'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' - Movie Review
Action sequences glued together with the weakest excuse yet for a plot in the Star Wars galaxy: fun, but incredibly silly.
read more'Sense8' Season 1 - TV Review
Weird but reasonably good - but after a season is it actually going anywhere?
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