Ragnarọk season 2 Created by Adam Price Written by Adam Price, Simen Alsvik, Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten, Christian Gamst Miller-Harris, Jacob Katz Hansen Directed by Mogens Hagedorn, Jannik Johansen, Mads Kamp Thulstrup Cast: David Stakston as Magne Seier / Thor; Jonas Strand Gravli as Laurits Seier / Loki; Herman Tømmeraas as Fjor Jutul; Theresa …
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet David Attenbourgh, or J. Steffen Rockström, his collaborator on this project, or perhaps Netflix may have decided that Breaking Boundaries was perhaps a bit too grim and hopeless, and would drive audiences into despair. So they put a hopeful conclusion at the end that felt like it had …
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 …
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 …
Shadow and Bone Main Executive producers; Lee Toland Krieger, Leigh Bardugo, Pouya Shahbazian, Josh Barry, Dan Cohen, Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Eric Heisserer Producers; Christina Strain, Thane Watkins, Rand Geiger Production locations; Budapest, Hungary; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Cinematography; David Lanzenberg, Owen McPolin, Aaron Morton Cast: Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, an orphan former …
Bad Dog Military Science Fiction Across A Holographic Multiverse (Gate Walkers) by Ashley R. Pollard Triode Press 317pp. The first few pages of Pollard’s book may strike some as a bit of a slog. You get hit with a lot of military jargon right off the bat and might feel that you picked up an …