Review: TNT’s Snowpiercer Worth Getting Your Ticket Punched
Review: TNT’s Snowpiercer Review: Snowpiercer — Humankind’s obsession with progress doomed the planet to a frosty death. A few stalwart humans find themselves on a train to nowhere, designed to ensure their future of humanity. The private project derails before it begins as hundreds of people stowaway on the train creating an unexpected class of […]
Review: Amazon’s Hunters Goes Down a Dark Path Toward More Darkness
Amazon’s Hunters Goes Down a Dark Path Toward More Darkness Amazon’s Hunters. I was in. The Karate Kid of Nazi hunter movies. I was hoping that was the pitch. The young orphaned Padawan, recently deprived of his grandmother’s love, taken in by a mysterious man who happens to be in the business of exacting revenge […]
Getting Ready for Snowpiercer: The Snowpiercer Timeline
You won’t be able to watch Snowpiercer until May 17 (though I have seen it and all I will say at this point that it is worth a watch). But unlike other SciFi shows, most notably Star Trek, the Snowpiercer team, from network to graphic novelists, don’t want any questions about timeline or canon. On […]
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before Review: Picard Season 1 brings back one of Star Trek’s iconic characters. Patrick Steward does justice to Picard, but the show, like all the new Treks, fails to both inspire and create a cohesive worldview that explains how they got from Roddenberry to […]
Review: Altered Carbon Season 2 Hacks the 2380s But We’re Still Here!
Review: Altered Carbon Season 2 I inhaled Altered Carbon Season 2, the dystopian Netflix series. The first season established the logic of the future (or lack of logic), along with backstories driven by arrogance for longevity among the rich and powerful. This season, don’t look for too many familiar faces as the premise of the show […]
Review: The Witcher Vanquishes All Streaming Fantasy Comers
Review: The Witcher There is a lot of confusion in The Witcher. Broad time leaps propel the audience into various moments and subplots experienced by the immortal warrior. Our understanding of the characters and the overall narrative comes in fits and starts. ideas reveal characters and characters reveal ideas in a recursive stream of narrative […]
Review: Dracula Gives Netflix Horror Some Fresh Teeth
Review: Dracula We all know Dracula. So what new can be done to ensure we don’t lump into the long slumber while we watch? First, get Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt to deliver a Netflix horror romp that puts the charming, dirt-nailed bedazzler into tight circumstances against the emergent Van Helsing line, and enough little twists […]
Review: The Umbrella Academy: A Magical Mystery Tour of Misfits.
The Umbrella Academy: a magical mystery tour of misfits. If the dysfunctional family, often cobbled together through adoption agencies, the foster care system (Shazam) or just picking up babies after an extermination event (Locke & Key), Umbrella Academy, the Netflix series reinforces that trend. Umbrella Academy proves a magical mystery tour of misfits. And of course, […]
Review: Lost in Space Learns to Take Itself More Seriously
Review: Lost in Space Learns to Take Itself More Seriously In the 1960s, Lost in Space did not take itself seriously. The show helped push Star Trek away from deep explorations of human potential toward a “monster of the week” format. Eventually, Star Trek influenced it back as the show moved from planet-bound and trapped to […]
Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It’s Time To Look Forward.
Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker A lot of pixels have been created and consumed about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Reviews covered the gamut of disappointment and joy, ambivalence and disavowal, frustration and release. Skywalker is not without its moments, but those moments get short shrift from director JJ Abrams in what seems […]