Film & TV

I love stories in pretty much any format you can think of. In particular though I think my favourites definitely come from film & TV. While I defininitely favour Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I enjoy a whole range of genre including mystery, comedy, thriller and horror.

Project Hail Mary

Holy shit! PHM was a once in a generation film! If there's a film that I could wipe from memory so I could watch it for the first time all over again, it would be this one.

Ryan Gosling's performance as Ryland Grace was just amazing throughout the film and even better was how he played off Rocky. Rocky alone could be an entire argument for why practical effects will always be superior to CGI, (looking at you Andor to back this up!). For anyone unaware, production actually used a puppet for Rocky and the work translates so well to screen. I honestly think the dynamic between the two would not have been as effective or endeared to the audience as much had Rocky been CGI.

They also nailed the perspective of space, because that scene where Grace looked out into the void on his first space walk and just went "nope" was completely understandable. Space is utterly terrifying because if you lose your grip on that ship with no anchor, you're done. No passing go and collecting £200, no get out of jail free card, you are dead, dead.

I'm obviously being broadly vague here simply because, if you haven't seen the film, close this page and go see it in the cinema while you still can. ...Why are you still here? GO! GO! GO!

Update 29/05/2026 - I went and saw it a second time in the cinema, which is completely unheard of for me to do