Oh, Barclay, worried about a silly little thing like having his entire body disassembled and reassembled remotely. “Realm of Fear”, the second episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s sixth season, has a nice script by Brannon Braga, one I rather like for being from the point of view of a character whose fears are…
“Kerblam!”, to-day’s new Doctor Who episode, felt kind of like the Seventh Doctor’s first season production staff tried to adapt Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. It has the ironically modern kitchy tone of the tourist service from Delta and the Bannerman and it features a robot army and slapstick on cgi conveyor belts…
Another week and another excellent Doctor Who episode, following up last week’s poignant tale with a
horror-comedy surrounding the abuse of technology.
Hey O’Deckers: If you’ve got nothing else better to do on this pre-Thanksgiving Sunday, read this fantastic Atlantic Monthly essay by Yosef Lindell on Peter S. Beagle’s magisterial fantasy classic The Last Unicorn, now fifty years old. It’s a perceptive take on Beagle’s novel, observing that it’s a type of fantasy…
Now on the Persis Khambatta/Fred Williamson/Donald Pleasance/Paper Chase Guy classic Warrior of the Lost World. If you’re coming in late, don’t worry — you’ve only missed Moon Zero Two.
It seems strange 1987's The Princess Bride works at all. It’s a story that seems to sabotage itself at every step, undercutting its own tension and drama, but it comes off as a remarkably effortless picture. But only sure hands could have pulled it off, the most important being William Goldman, who passed away…
I give you a party place to hide in, you give me GIFs. Quid Pro Quo.
A brand new Coen brothers movie, even an inferior one, would be a nice gift for NetFlix to deliver automatically to-day for its customers, but 2018's The Ballad of Buster Scrubbs happens to be the best Coen brothers movie in years. Beautifully shot and featuring a cast that is simultaneously idiosyncratic and…
This is a reasonable approximation of my basement. It would have been worse if there weren’t 300 books on my kindle. We will be moving in the next year or so and will not have room to store all my books, so I needed to get rid of them.
The Gorgon will be the Svengoolie feature this week. Hammer Films. Directed by Terence Fisher.
I’ll let you drive the Hover-DeLorean I’ll buy with them if you do! Because where that thing goes, it clearly need no roads!
In the final episode of Cowboy Bebop we suddenly find ourselves in a very long story established in a very brief space of time. There were hints to and reflections of it throughout the series but all those elements come together finally in a single piece presenting a completion in the final episode simultaneously…
Hello and welcome, all to WednesdayBookClub, everyone! My name is GeeseJuggler and I have no idea how many times I’ve used this title for book club. Let’s get started!
Because you can only see well with the heart. Of your enemy. After you ripped it out of his chest.
Stan Lee passed away yesterday. Many celebrities and artists and critics are saying things about his work, many of them fairly accurate, like how he is largely responsible for creating the more “down to Earth” superhero of Marvel in contrast to DC’s more godlike beings. It’s all been said before, really. But it’s true.
It’s amazing that someone can be told that they’re talking to is a clone and not ask the question “A clone of who?”. Welcome to the Gifted season 2 episode 7 “no Mercy” spoilerific reaction thread, where you can share your thoughts on the show as it plays out or after it’s done.
If you have ANY type of procedural, there comes a time where you just MUST include a contortionist as a villain for creepy effect. Tonight is the night for The Flash. Let’s react!
By which I mean the TV show on the National Geographic Channel.
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