(courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 1 – “Something’s Changed”Honestly if you’d asked this reviewer if he’d ever see a second season on Invasion, the answer would be a hard “NO”. While the first season was the very highest order of sci-fi storytelling, slowly and expertly building tension and dread in ways Continue Reading
Book review: The Legend of Charlie Fish by Josh Rountree
(courtesy Tachyon Publications / cover by John Coulthart) If you believe the adage that good things come in small packages then you are going to love the perfectly formed succinctness of Josh Rountree’s slim but powerful The Legend of Charlie Fish. Set at the turn of the twentieth century with Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Vern – Custodian of the Universe by Tyrell Waiters
(courtesy Penguin Random House) There is something deliciously liberating, no doubt for the creator every bit as much as the reader, of a premise being seized by the lapels with alacrity and enthusiasm and taken to some narratively imaginative and epic but emotionally intimate places. It’s rare that two play Continue Reading
True love of a most piratical kind: Our Flag Means Death S2 teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… the new season will continue to follow the tumultuous romance between pirates Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), both of whom are kinda sorta based on their real-life counterparts. Things didn’t end so well in the first season, so there’s going to be plenty Continue Reading
Old flames reconnect in Meg Ryan rom-com What Happens Later
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo ex lovers, Bill (David Duchovny) and Willa (Meg Ryan) get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as Continue Reading
Movie review: Theater Camp
(courtesy IMP Awards) Mockumentaries are curious beasts. On the one hand, they give creators a golden opportunity to skewer a whole herd of sacred cows purely by positioning a person in a situation that is so eerily close to what it is in real life that telling the difference between Continue Reading