John Mosby

  • WandaVision: Delivering nostalgia is quite the twin dilemma…

    Time is an illusion, pregnancy doubly so. Wanda’s unexpected and impossible condition continues at speed as technicolor comes to their not-quite-picture-perfect world. There’s little time to note the changes in the world around them, or the fact that their neighbours haven’t aged a day… because hours after discovering she’s...
  • Synchronic – uneven sf trip that’s not ready for prime times…

    Steve and Dennis are two paramedics working the New Orleans night-shift. Each shift brings depressingly more of the same: overdoses, murders, domestic violence and generally the underside of humanity. Their latest call-outs have yet more fatalities, but despite the drugs involved, they prove more interesting than others, given that...
  • WandaVision On: Bewitching Marvel show has Pleasantville potential…

    Wanda and Vision are the new couple in town…. and golly, they’ve already made something of an impact, attracting the polite scrutiny of their neighbours. It seems that they will have to be very careful to hide the fact she has special powers and he’s a robot… and all...
  • Netflix signs up ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ to series…

    A while ago it looked as if COVID had sidelined plans for a televisions series based around Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer series of novels. Connelly had already had major success with an ongoing adaptation of his Bosch novels, with the Amazon Prime series of the same name due to...
  • Star Trek Discovery S3 finale: Captain on the A’bridged….

    Osyraa still has control of the Discovery and as ‘peace’ talks break down she unleashes her forces against the Federation. Despite the timely arrival of allies, it looks as if Vance will have no choice but to blow the Discovery out of the sky.  In a last minute gambit,...
  • The Doctor is… out? UK media says regeneration coming…

    According to breaking reports from the UK’s The Mirror, Jodie Whittaker is leaving Doctor Who after what will be three years in the role as the Thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor. Though the BBC have declined to comment on the story, the often hyperbolic and excitable tabloid actually has a...
  • ‘Shadow in the Cloud’ is utter miss for Hit Girl Moretz…

    It’s 1943: A young woman with a mysterious case rushes to board a B-17 Flying Fortress heading to New Zealand, presenting orders that only vaguely outline a secret mission. Maude Garrett (Chloe Grace Moretz) refuses to give further details but has no choice other than to entrust her case to one...
  • Cassandra Crossing: Mulligan fulfils ‘Promising Young Woman’ potential…

    Cassandra Thomas (Carey Mulligan) is a young woman who, from the outside, seems strangely satisfied with her becalmed life. Once a promising young doctor on the fast-track to success, she now works at a coffee-shop and snarks with her colleagues and customers and lives at home with her parents....
  • Who’s ‘Revolution’: House-cleaning and Social Distancing…

    The Doctor is being held in a high-security cosmic prison for crimes she doesn’t even remember… with no obvious way out and some unfortunate company to slowly pass the time. Meanwhile on Earth the remains of the Dalek (last seen in Resolution of the Daleks) have been mined and...
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