One of the purest, most lovely memories of my childhood, is watching some of the classic BBC sitcoms of the time such as The Good Life, Dad’s Army and To the Manor Born with my family. Brilliantly-written and supremely well-acted, these sitcoms were also warm, silly and comforting, an entrée Continue Reading
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Firefly takes to the galactic skies again! In book form at least …
Ah Firefly, I still mourn your prematurely-ended run, your brief 13-episode run of intra-galactic adventure and derringdo flickering out and foundering far before any of us were ready for it. Thankfully while TV may be done, with you, the rest of the pop culture-o-sphere is not, with a movie Continue Reading
“Danger, Will Robinson”: Jupiter 2 set to get Lost in Space all over again
SNAPSHOT Lost in Space is a Netflix Original dramatic and modern reimagining of the classic 1960’s science fiction series. Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves Continue Reading
Take down Mechno-Hive! Join the fight with The Axiom Chronicles
SNAPSHOT On a dystopian planet in the far reaches of the cosmos, an evil sentient mechanical entity known as the Mechno-Hive has enslaved the organic races as their labor force. By controlling an ancient and mysterious crystaline power source known as the Axiom, they exert their tyrannical will on Continue Reading
First impressions: Stargate Origins (episodes 1-3)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE BEGINNING OF A GRAND ADVENTURE … AND NAZIS WHO ARE NOBODY’S IDEA OF A GOOD TIME … Many a wise person has remarked that some secrets are best left buried where they lie. Now, you might think this attitude is sadly lacking in chutzpah Continue Reading
The dystopian mash-up #AlteredCarbon is peak Anthropocene TV (curated article)
by Mitch Goodwin, University of Melbourne The opening image of Altered Carbon is of a male human form. We see him from below, suspended in the shimmering blue expanse of water, beams of angelic light creating a silhouette of his splayed body. The image evokes Scottie Ferguson on the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Josie and the Pussycats
I like to think of myself as being a fairly self-aware kid, in touch with my emotions, willing to think through the big issues, and creatively critical where needed. But hey, at the end of the day, which by the way were sooooo much longer when I was younger, Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Will You Take My Hand” (S1, E15 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A FRANTIC NARRATIVE WRAP-UP THAT WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD SPINNING LIKE IT’S JUST BEEN CUT OFF BY A BAT’LETH. So if the frenetic, helter-skelter, conveniently tied-up narrative is any guide, and I think it is, then the producers and writers of Star Trek Discovery were Continue Reading
No body lives forever: First impressions of Altered Carbon
We are all fond of fairytales. Oh, I don’t mean those charmingly barbed and dark morality plays that we have Disneynified so they are little more than quaint stories with an appealing message; I ‘m talking about those societal-wide delusions that we all take onboard as we grow up, the Continue Reading
Stay dry. Stay alive. The perils of getting wet in The Rain
SNAPSHOT The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of Continue Reading