Mars Deflects: Twilight Zone’s shuttle diplomacy falters…
A manned mission to Mars, the first in an ongoing project to find a home beyond the cramped, polluted Earth is minutes away from take-off. But as the countdown begins, … Read More
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Live, Freeze or Die… GoT’s ‘Long Night’ finally arrives…
The Battle of Winterfell, as the combined forces of Westeros take on the undead army of the Night King, is finally here and everyone knows their duty and their small … Read More
Game of Thrones 8.2: Let’s make this a Knight to Remember…
Slowly but surely, the White Walkers and the cold forces of the Night King are making their way towards Winterfell where an uneasy alliance between one-time (and even current) enemies … Read More
Twilight Zone: ‘A Traveler’… is a journeyman entry…
It’s Christmas Eve in Iglaak, Alaska and the small community’s annual party at the sheriff’s station is underway. Each year, the local police captain Lance Pendelton (Greg Kinnear) extols the … Read More
The view from abridged: Star Trek’s Un-Discovery-ed Country…
With ‘Control’ moving in to get the Sphere and retrieve the data that could lead to cosmic extinction, the battle is on and a war for survival begins. It’s the … Read More
‘Winterfell’ is here. Game of Thrones roars back…
So. Winter is no longer coming, it’s finally here and there’s little doubt the most watched hour of television on Sunday night was the opening salvo in the final season … Read More
Discovery’s ‘Such Sweet Sorrows’ – Hurry up but Weight…
The decision to abandon and destroy Discovery does not go as well as planned when the Sphere data protects the entire ship and not just it database. It appears the … Read More
Twilight Zone: Profiling the Colour of Authority…
Nina (Sanaa Lathan) and her son Dorian (Damsan Idris) are on a drive, taking Dorian to college. Nina escaped a poor and largely prospect-free childhood environment and made a successful … Read More
Shiv and Let Die? Bleeding wonderful ‘Killing Eve’ returns…
It’s barely a minute after UK intelligence analyst Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) skewered her quarry, the highly-financed, somewhat unbalanced assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer), an act which surprised both … Read More
Twilight Zone: Less scare miles, more cabin pressure…
The second Twilight Zone episode sees a reinterpretation of one of the classic show’s most memorable episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet – though now upped to 30,000… because, hey, inflation. … Read More
Discovery: ‘Valley of Shadows…’ casts impressive light…
One of the red signals has appeared over a distant Klingon moon and while no-one knows what it means, Tyler is all too aware of its personal significance to him … Read More
A Peele into Nostalgia: Twilight Zone’s delivery sets modern stage…
Stand-up comic Samir Wassan (Silicon Valley/The Big Sick‘s Kumail Nanjiani) is an earnest comedian but one whose material is more social-comment than laugh-inducing and he, his successful lawyer girlfriend Reena … Read More
Discovery: A Quantum Leap of Solace?
The ‘Red Angel’ has been captured but there are conflicting ideas about the implications and what should be done next? Burnham wants to see her mother but a compromised Leyland … Read More
Discovery’s ‘Red Angel’ : A Martyr of Life and Death…
There’s little doubt that the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery looks beautiful, handled with grace and style by Hanelle M. Culpepper, who will also helm the opening episodes of … Read More
Duped Ex Machina: Discovery’s resource code gets highlighted…
Discovery is now a fugitive ship, but Captain Cornwell (Jayne Brook) is invited on board to finally analyse Spock’s story and the claims he was framed. It seems that – … Read More