Oxygène Directed by Alexandre Aja Produced by Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Noëmie Devide Written by Christie LeBlanc Starring Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi Music by Rob Oxygène won’t be for everyone. It’s claustrophobic, apoxic, has some horrifically gruesome medical situations and bodies disfigured by massive violence, combined with extreme, intense …
Month: May 2021
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker. Top Shelf Productions 2019, 204 pages I first learned of the Canadian internment of Japanese-descended people in British Columbia—some 90% of the residents in that province—when I was 12 years old. My father told me of …
The animation in all eight offerings in season two is well above average, ranging from a marvelously stylistic 2-D “Ice” to sly caricatures in “Automated Customer Service” to a gritty hyperrealism in “Pop Squad” or “Life Hutch”. The stories themselves had plotlines familiar to SF fans—robot uprisings, grim cops in dystopian cultures, immortality in a …
The Expanse Executive producers Naren Shankar, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, Sharon Hall, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, & Dan Nowak Producers Lynn Raynor, Jason Ning, Robin Veith, Ben Cook, Ben Roberts, Manny Danelon, Alan Di Fiore, Lewin Webb, Robert Munroe, Steven Strait Production locations Toronto, …
Eight Novels by Joe Abercrombe I’ve been working my way through the collected works of Joe Abercrombie over the past few months, starting with the two books that begin his ongoing second trilogy, The Age of Madness (A Little Hatred and The Trouble with Peace) and his First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, Before They …
Mank Directed by David Fincher Produced by Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski Screenplay by Jack Fincher Music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Cinematography Erik Messerschmidt (shot in black and white) Edited by Kirk Baxter Production companies; Netflix International Pictures, Flying Studio, Panic Pictures, Blue Light Cast Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz Amanda …