Silo (S1, E9) BAM! That sound you hear, crashing down with clanging finality through the hundred-plus set of spiral stairs that link the many levels of the eponymous silo, is of an autocratic system finding itself falling apart, one defiant action after another. In the penultimate episode of the Silo‘s Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Lower Decks #1 by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
(courtesy IDW Publishing) SNAPSHOTEnsign, report to the bridge! Board the U.S.S. Cerritos for a mission to the enigmatic Qvanti system as the hit Paramount+ animated series comes to comics! Captain Carol Freeman leads her crew on an expedition aimed to build bridges and advance Federation technology, but she and the Continue Reading
Sci-fi review special: Star Trek – Strange New Worlds (S2 E1) and Silo (S1, E 7-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2, E1 Is it twee and over-devoted to think of the characters on a TV show as family, especially after just one season? Possibly but then when the show is as well-written and skillfully executed as Discovery spinoff, Strange New Worlds, now Continue Reading
Shhhh … let the power of Bedtime Stories with Ryan send you to dreamland
(courtesy YouTube) SNAPSHOTBedtime Stories with Ryan is a “restful show” from an “anxious mind” and features music from Sleeping at Last. “We’re so happy to create a program with the express goal of putting people to sleep. This show has actually been a dream of mine for a while,” said Continue Reading
They did what?! Yup, They Cloned Tyrone (poster + trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of animated trailers: Elio, Nimona and Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Silly
(via Shutterstock) As an artform, animation promises so much and often delivers even more. Not constrained by the bounds of physics or probability, animated creations can tell all kinds of unlikely and heartfelt stories, fuelled by vibrant imagination and clever inventiveness, and immerse us in worlds we might never have Continue Reading
Peace out, virgins! Thoughts on Never Have I Ever season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are a curious concoction. We spend out the growing up part of our lives looking forward to the adult part of being alive, convinced that this transition will be the thing that defines and makes us, that will confirm that everything we’ve done up to that Continue Reading
Once more to the whimsically heartfelt frozen opposite of south: The Great North (S2, E11-22)
A lot of modern animated shows are very clever creations indeed. BoJack Horseman, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, King of the Hill and Archer are just five examples in a brilliantly inspired slates of shows that manage to bring together vividly-realised characters in all their authentically fallible glory, narratives that are Continue Reading
Perhaps it is time to begin again: New TV spot drops for Star Wars’ Ahsoka
(courtesy Gizmodo (c) Lucasfilm) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created Continue Reading
An epic love story: Join the Fellow Travelers (teaser trailer)
(courtesy YouTube (c) Showtime / paramount+) SNAPSHOTCreated by Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington. Matt Bomer plays handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains Continue Reading