Could someone please tell me how series a based on 2007’s Event Horizon is supposed to work–I’ve got some ideas but I’m reasonably certain the series wouldn’t take the path I have in mind and even if it were to, I’m not on the writing staff and who’ll buy the cow if give away the […]
Netflix’s The OA had been officially cancelled after two seasons and I’m oddly sanguine about it. The series is so odd and quirky that while I’ll miss it, I couldn’t imagine where it would go had there been a third season. And let’s be honest. I’d prefer The OA to end at the top of […]
If you’re not watching Kim’s Convenience on Netflix you don’t know what you’re missing. The series revolves around a Korean family that operates a grocery in Canada and it’s particularly arresting television because it manages to be kind, while not venturing too often into cliché. Then there’s the diverse cast, which gives it a level […]
Aaron Martin’s Another Life isn’t particularly good–it’s pretty ludicrous, in fact–but it is damn entertaining. And much of that is due to Katee Sackhoff, who’s just remarkable. She brings an intensity, a vitality to everything that she does that just by her being there she elevates everything around her. And you might be familiar with […]
The trailer for Shudder’s Creepshow dropped a day or so ago…and it’s fine. That’s (deliberately) muted phrase but since we’re talking about a show based upon an movie that was an anthology–a collection of short stories–it’s particularly hard to make a trailer about them because the scenes featured will likely lack any sort of interconnectedness. […]
The latest edition of Netflix’s Stranger Things franchise, Stranger Things 3, premiered last Friday and it was fine though there’s a sameness to the proceedings this time around. Part of this sameness is due to the format, which revolves around the adventures of a bunch of young boys growing up (essentially Stephen King’s Stand By […]
Gene Blalock’s The Nightmare Gallery is an interesting horror film that follows in the footsteps of movies like John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness and Jacob’s Ladder, except not nearly as interestingly as either of those movies. Part of the issue is the narrative, which is a bit muddled. Another is that the movie’s […]
A day or two ago the trailer for the latest season of Netflix’s Stranger Things franchise, Stranger Things 3, dropped and it looks…fine. Not great, and definitely NOT an event though that’s okay in the sense that not everything has to be an event and there should be room for smaller-scale things as well. Which […]
Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother is a pretty interesting entry into the world of Dystopian science-fiction, which typically depicts a world that has been devastated by the neglect of humans. It sort of stumbles in the third act–which doesn’t quite make sense based on everything that’s come before–but it still remains watchable. What’s particularly noteworthy […]
Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City (1993), as far as I’m concerned, was a high-water mark as far as serialized adaptations go. At times funny, sad and beautiful; sometimes all within the same moment. So you can imagine so when I learned that Netflix was picking up the torch (I don’t know if it’s a […]
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