(courtesy AppleTV+) Not surprisingly, given the lavishly rewarding dense text of Isaac Asimov’s series from which this stremaing juggernaut is sourced, there is a LOT going on in Foundation. Not just over the four episodes under discussion here, but in each and every episode which cram so much in that Continue Reading
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Sci-fi review double: Invasion S3 (E1-2) and Star Trek Strange New Worlds S3 (E 6-8)
(courtesy IMP awards) INVASION season 2 Episode 1: “The Ones We Leave Behind” When last we visited the blighted citizens of Invasion Earth, the alien mothership had crashed into a mountain range, heroes, U.S. soldier Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and British schoolboy-turned-alien-psychic Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) were MIA, presumed dead, Continue Reading
Season 2 is the death of me: Thoughts on Wednesday S2 Part 1
(courtesy IMP Awards) How do you, to wildly and wilfully paraphrase a song from The Sound of Music, solve a problem like keeping a franchise fresh and vital years after the height of its emergent and zeitgeist dominating popularity? It’s a great and enduring conundrum, one given even more present Continue Reading
How does an original TV show come to be? ScreenCrush reveals all in this fascinating video
SNAPSHOTTV Shows have a long production gestation, which goes through stages like pitching, writing, rewriting (lots of rewriting), development, and production. ScreenCrush guides you through every step of this process to understand how they actually make TV Shows. (courtesy Laughing Squid) When you fire up your favourite streaming platform and Continue Reading
Book review: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) I am not one of those consumers of books and movies and TV shows that recoils in horror whenever a story or a set of characters which originated in one medium make the leap to another. In fact, watching these people or a much enjoyed Continue Reading
“Let’s get lucky, shall we?” Fallout debuts an epic season two trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe new season will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout Continue Reading
To new beginnings … Thoughts on Leanne
(courtesy IMP Awards) If I am going to be completely honest, when I saw the trailer for Leanne, I was not overly impressed. It came across as one of those tired, laugh track-heavy efforts with lacklustre plotting, punchline jokes that stick out like a sore, barely-funny thumb, and no sense Continue Reading
“This hotel has a darkness!” Trailer for Haunted Hotel delivers all the hilarious goosebumps
(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThe adult animated comedy series created by writer Matt Roller will center on a single mother of two who struggles to run The Undervale, a hotel that just so happens to be haunted. Luckily, she has some help from her estranged brother… who is now Continue Reading
Get close up with trailers for Only Murders in the Building S5 and Wednesday S2 Part 2
(courtesy Shutterstock) Want more shows to stream even thought time is tight and you still haven’t watch about 2/3 of this year’s “Must Watch” list? (Or is that just me? Could be just me!) Well, the various streaming platforms have more shows, WAAAAAY more shows and among them are these Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review: “Shuttle to Kenfori”, “A Space Adventure Hour” and “Through the Lense of Time” (S3, E3-5)
(courtesy IMP Awards) “Shuttle to Kenfori” Zombies! Yes, my friends, zombies! Granted Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a little late to the party on this one, but when it’s executed with as much as this episode, you can forgive their tardiness. In this case, the zombies, though Dr M’Benga Continue Reading