Love, Death and Robots Executive-producers: David Fincher and Tim Miller Other credits at link below. Each of the 18 episodes has its own director(s) and voice actors. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Back in the days when the Enter key was a lever on the side of the adding machine, there was Métal Hurlant, a French magazine that migrated …
Chasing Rent: a review of “This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy” Adam McKay, who has left Will Farrell behind in order to write spritely comedies about economics and neo-fascist politics, has produced an eight-part series for Amazon, This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy. Despite what the title suggests, the series isn’t …
The Umbrella Academy Based on; The Umbrella Academy by: Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Developed by: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater Starring: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, Colm Feore, Adam Godley, John Magaro About five minutes in, I thought, oh, this is stupid, and …
The Dragon Prince Season 2 Creators: Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond Jack DeSena as Callum Paula Burrows as Rayla Sasha Rojen as Ezran Racquel Belmonte as Claudia Jesse Inocalla as Soren Jason Simpson as Viren In its second season, the animated effort by Ehasz and Richmond, as it title suggests, spreads its wings and prepares …
Created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler Starring Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, Charlie Barnett, Elizabeth Ashley There’s an overwhelming temptation to compare this series to Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day. In both, the central character is caught on a hamster wheel in which life resets to a certain point, one identified by …
Kingdom Based on Land of the Gods by Kim Eun Hee Written by Kim Eun-hee Directed by Kim Seong-hun Starring Ju Ji-hoon, Bae Doona, Ryu Seung-ryong Country of origin South Korea You could almost believe you were watching an Akira Kurosawa film. Mystery lies in the minutiae, horror in hints, suspense in speckles. Mixed in …
Note: This review was written in late 2017 for Electric Review. John, perhaps because of unfamiliarity with the series, elected not to run this one, presumably because Electric Review is aimed at a more sophisticated readership. I happened across it while looking for something else on my backup drive, and decided it would be suitable …
Created by Bryan Fuller & Alex Kurtzman Based on Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, & Anson Mount Season One of Star Trek Discovery was daring, inventive, and featured some of the most sophisticated and deep writing seen in any Star …
Happy! Created by Grant Morrison & Darick Robertson Directed by Brian Taylor, David Petrarca, & Wayne Yip Starring Christopher Meloni, Bryce Lorenzo, Ritchie Coster, Lili Mirojnick, Medina Senghore, Patrick Fischler Voice of Patton Oswalt To say that Hello! is over the top is like saying a Carolina Reaper pepper is spicy. Take elements from the …
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Directed by David Slade Produced by Russell McLean Written by Charlie Brooker Starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe Production company Netflix Distributed by Netflix I didn’t rush to watch Bandersnatch before because I read that it was based on 1980s computer interactive games. Aside from sounding like …