Ender’s Game

Setting aside for a moment the quease-making notion that I just put good money into the hands of that miserable homophobe Orson Scott Card, I need to tell you about Ender’s Game. What I mostly need to tell you is that you should avoid it. Ender’s Game is a boring, messy, unengaging and emotionally unconvincing…

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X Files – I Want to Believe

……And I wanted to see a really good movie. So we’re both disappointed, then. The latest X-Files movie feels like a really long tv episode. Duchovny and Anderson are great as usual, but the plot is leaden and, aside from a couple of genuinely creepy moments, it is rather lacking in suspense. I guess icky…

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