https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh8zOfPgbLs/?utm_source=ig_embed Do you ever take in the amazing creativity of someone like, oh say, French art director Linda Bouderbala and muse upon the moment of inspiration when the genius idea of grouping together pop culture characters of a particular character came to her? Nope, just me? Well, I muse upon Continue Reading
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What We Do in the Shadows TV series: Everyone’s favourite wryly amusing vampires return
SNAPSHOT Much like the movie, the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former two are husband and wife. Also living with them is a fourth vampire named Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who’s an ‘energy vampire’. Instead Continue Reading
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is darkly delicious #Halloween2018
There is something immensely appealing about anyone who is (a) happy to subvert established tropes and sensibilities and (b) who does it flair, imagination and a willingness to challenge established ideas and remake them in their own image. Or even better, cook them. Christine McConnell, the royal icing-pumping star Continue Reading
Who puts the banana in the replicator? Star Trek: Below Decks aims to ask the hard questions
SNAPSHOT Star Trek: Lower Decks is a half-hour animated comedy developed by Mike McMahan, a writer for Rick and Morty and the upcoming Short Trek “The Escape Artist.” CBS All Access has ordered two seasons of the show, which will focus on the support crew on one of Starfleet’s Continue Reading
The Doctor Puppet: Solar flares, cracks in the universe and a helpful extravagance of Doctor Whos
SNAPSHOT In “The Twelfth Planet“, the final episode of Alisa Stern‘s wonderful stop-motion Doctor Who puppet series “Doctor Puppet“, the twelfth iteration of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi), alone on a littered planet, finds himself at the mercy of a perfectly aligned solar flare that causes a crack in the universe. As the crack grows Continue Reading
Could In the Flesh rise again? The series creator says possibly
As zombies series, the BBC’s In the Flesh was a cut above the usual stalk-em-and-terrify-em run of the mill. Thoughtfully examining what might happen if a cure could be found for the zombie virus reverting any affected people back to normal and able, in theory at least, back into Continue Reading
Oh Q! Star Trek gets a great big comic crossover and it’s all his fault
Can I be honest with you all? I have never much cared for Q. True John de Lancie was absolutely superb in the role, and many of the episodes featuring Q turned a harsh spotlight on humanity’s foibles or brought out something illuminating in one of the main characters, Continue Reading
Childlike glee: How a female Doctor Who could change the portrayal of women in sci-fi
SNAPSHOT The Doctor has a gleeful, almost childlike personality. He’s a hero with a sense of humor – which makes the character fun and compelling to watch. But that kind of character complexity has been typically reserved for male heroes. Female superheroes are very much pressured to be taken Continue Reading
Onward into moody dystopia: Blade Runner 2049 continues on in comic book form
SNAPSHOT The comic series will continue to unravel the future-set continuity of the Blade Runner universe, picking things up after the events of the long-awaited 2017 movie sequel, director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which followed the exploits of replicant blade runner K (Ryan Gosling), whose circuitous existential crisis leads him into Continue Reading
Every family is Atypical (season 2 review)
There is something utterly freeing and refreshing about Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), the protagonist on Netflix’s Atypical. An 18-year-old senior on the autism spectrum, Sam is a reassuring presence for all of us, regardless of who we are or our circumstances, that it’s entirely okay to be yourself, and Continue Reading