Science Fiction

Unseelie is Unbelieving: a review of Carnival Row

Exec. Producers: Marc Guggenheim, Rene Echevarria, Guillermo del Toro, Jon Amiel, Travis Beacham, Orlando Bloom, Gideon Amir, Gary Ungar, Paul McGuigan Starring Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney, Tamzin Merchant, David Gyasi, Andrew Gower, Karla Crome, Arty Froushan, Indira Varma, Jared Harris There’s this city, you see, that has a twisting river wending through it, …

Another dead SF series: a review of Another Life.

Another Life Created by: Aaron Martin Starring: Katee Sackhoff, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, Blu Hunt, A.J. Rivera, Jake Abel, Alex Ozerov, Alexander Eling, JayR Tinaco, Lina Renna, Selma Blair No. of episodes 10 (list of episodes) Executive producers: Aaron Martin, Noreen Halpern, Chris Regina Producers: Justis Greene, Katee Sackhoff Production companies: Navy Productions, Halfire Entertainment …

Bodybags the Snarler meets Independence Day: A review of Stranger Things Season 3

  Stranger Things 3 The Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Iain Paterson. Starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono There’s so many ways Season Three could have gone …

Spinning down: a review of Years and Years

Years and Years Created by Russell T Davies Screenplay by Russell T Davies Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, Lisa Mulcahy Emma Thompson as Vivienne Rook MP, a charismatic and controversial businesswoman turned politician. Rory Kinnear as Stephen Lyons, a financial advisor, who lives in London with his wife, Celeste, and their two daughters, Bethany and …

Love, Death and Robots

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 …

To boldly go where no roomba has gone before: a review of Star Trek Discovery

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 …

You know it, clap your hands: a review of Happy!

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 …

Either-Or: a review of Bandersnatch

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 …