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  • Characters I Want to Appear in the Upcoming Star Wars Cassian Andor Series

    It’s been a couple of weeks since the first season of The Mandalorian concluded and proved, both to us the audience and Disney themselves, that live-action Star Wars television could work. Well, it concluded if you’re lucky enough to live somewhere with Disney+, and if not then the season...
  • Adam’s Top 10 of the Decade

    As we say hello to the 2020’s I thought I’d share some of my best moments of the decade. A lot has happened, there’s been plenty of ups and downs but across the things covered by Out of Lives most of it was good. Well, most of what I...
  • My Star Trek Odyssey: Celebrating a Decade of Being a Star Trek Fan

    I don’t remember the first time I saw Star Wars. I don’t know which order I watched the original films or, being of that age, whether it was even The Phantom Menace I saw first. It’s always been there, and I’ve always loved it. To this day, it’s one...
  • My Thoughts on the IMAX Prologue of Christoper Nolan’s Tenet

    This past weekend, my family and I continued a wintery Star Wars tradition and travelled to London to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in IMAX at the wonderful Empire Cinema in Leicester Square. There we were treated to a sneak peak of Christopher Nolan’s latest film –...
  • My Thoughts on the No Time To Die Trailer

    A little over four years after Spectre was released in cinemas, the trailer for Daniel Craig’s fifth and final James Bond film – No Time to Die – has been released. It’s not been the smoothest of productions for the now 25-film franchise, with Craig’s presence initially uncertain and...
  • Trying to Make Sense of Tarantino’s Star Trek

    We’re at a fascinating place in the history of Star Trek. Discovery has marked the beginning of this new era for the franchise and beginning next year, for better or worse, a deluge of new content is heading our way. This upcoming content follows no clear thread but rather...
  • Record Of Grancrest War

    Record Of Grancrest War is an anime that aired in 2018, based on a light novel series of the same name, by A-1 Pictures. It’s an anime I enjoyed watching but as I’ve sat with it since I’ve had more and more problems with it. I enjoyed it as...
  • Doctor Sleep: A Winning Combination of King and Kubrick

    How do you make a sequel to The Shining? Your first thought is probably “don’t”, but this is Hollywoodland and such things have to come to pass. The answer: make a completely different kind of movie. A sequel that’s equal parts connected to the original masterpiece of horror and...
  • Dying

    There’s no escaping it. For all that we avoid talking about it in real life, it’s a prevalent part of a lot of our creative endeavours. How a show, film or game deals with the deaths of characters can often be a defining part of its perception. Game of...