Chronicle director Josh Trank reboots Marvel's First Family, with a grittier, modern take on Fantastic Four. But does the film improve over the Tim Story films of the 2000's? Or are the rumours true and is it rather not so fantastic after all? … [Read more...]
Spy – Dork Review
You could almost (*almost*) say that 2015 is the year of the spy movie. Between big hitters like Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E and, of course, a certain Mr. Bond returning to our screens, Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig's third comedy team up seems like it could get a bit … [Read more...]
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – Dork Review
Hello June, and hello the official start to Summer Blockbuster Season (which kind of started when Age of Ultron came out, but now it's actually summer, so... yeah). The next three months are positively filled to the brim with blockbusters, and first up is... well, one that's not been doing too well … [Read more...]
Dork TV preview: Humans on Channel 4
If you've tuned into Channel 4 at any point in the past couple of weeks, you may have caught a glimpse of a particularly disturbing advert for a company called Persona Synthetics. Ostensibly, they are the brains behind the latest must-have gadget for the busy family: a synth, or an advanced robot … [Read more...]
Battle of the trailers: The Force Awakens Vs. Batman V. Superman
The past week was positively Christmas for us film dorks: two of the biggest upcoming blockbusters have released shiny new trailers, for us to watch, scrutinize and (hopefully) get us excited about the finished product. … [Read more...]
Go – How to survive the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show
As you may have guessed from a glance at our Craft section, Team Dork Adore are a bunch of avid makers (myself included; I'm a papercrafter/knitter). So when we got the chance to send one of us to The Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Kensington Olympia, we jumped on it. I braved the first day … [Read more...]
Timey-Wimey, Filmy-Wilmy – Project Almanac – Dork Review
Like the time travelling cousin to Josh Trank’s Chronicle, out comes director Dean Israelite’s Project Almanac, a solid-but-a-bit-predictable thriller which plays around with the found footage genre (wait, come back!) and presents you with a question that you may have already answered in the … [Read more...]
Learn all about horror at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, London
Horror has always been a genre that divided crowds and critics. Often called out for poor acting, poor writing, overly gratuitous gore and lousy treatment of women, it's a genre that has also become positively oversaturated with knock-offs of its own classics. There has always been a lot more to … [Read more...]
Comeback kid – BiRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) review
Former Batman star, Michael Keaton, stages a heck of a comeback in the most meta way possible: by playing an actor best known for playing the lead in a superhero franchise staging a comeback. It comes to UK cinemas on the back of critical praise and awards buzz for pretty much everyone involved, so … [Read more...]
The Dork Guide to Christmas TV
Joy to the world, for this week the Christmas TV schedule officially kicks off. For the next two weeks, the schedules will be filled with danger, drama, intrigue, mystery... oh wait, that's just EastEnders. Sorry... But in all seriousness, festive television this year is a goldmine of film … [Read more...]
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