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The National Geographic Channel‘s MARS is an interesting beast – a mixture of actual documentary, pseudo-documentary and straight drama, deliberately blending them together to give audiences what the programmers hope feels like a fact-based show that could have been / will be made forty years from now. One might think...
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Coal Hill Academy, a shiny steel and glass structure built on the site of the previous bricks and mortar school has always been a magnet for… something other.As far back as sixty years ago it was attracting unearthly children and it seems even a wash and brush up hasn’t...
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Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a business-man, divorced and with such a focus on his work that he gets his daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) the same present two years running. This year, her only wish is for her father to take her to see her mother in Busan and so, balancing...
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Bonnie Black is dying. At 80 years old, she’s lived a full life, full of the myriad triumphs and disappointments, happiness and sadness that go to make up an existence – but her body is entering its twilight and if she’s not ready to shuffle off her mortal coil,...
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Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List) is a decorated detective, celebrating her twenty-eighth birthday and likely to be proposed to by her boyfriend. She loves her job, her fiancee and her mother dearly – the only thing that still haunts some of her moments is the knowledge that her late father...
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Hayes Morrison (Haley Atwell) may be the daughter of an ex-President and possess the savvy mind of a great attorney but she’s also a self-destructive rebel and a magnate for self-inflicted trouble . But when she’s caught for cocaine-possession, she’s offered the deal of a lifetime. Due to a...
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The near future. Leaps in technology and the lifelong work of Doctor Robert Ford (Sir Anthony Hopkins) have allowed advancements in cyber-technology. So much so that the very richest and most influential people can buy time at an isolated park where they can live out a range of storylines...
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All through his young life, Jake (Asa Butterfield) has listened in awe to the tales his grandfather, Abe (Terrence Stamp), told of his youth… of monsters real and metaphorical and of the strange people he met. However age has taken its toll and it now appears that Abe cannot...
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“One helluva day…” muses Natascha McElhlone’s new first lady Alex Kirkman as she gets ready to accompany her husband Tom and survey the damage to Washington DC in the second episode of new drama Designated Survivor (broadcast by ABC in the US and available on Netflix in other territories) As Jack...
The National Geographic Channel‘s MARS is an interesting beast – a mixture of actual documentary, pseudo-documentary and straight drama, deliberately blending them together to give audiences what the programmers hope feels like a fact-based show that could have been / will be made forty years from now. One might think...
Coal Hill Academy, a shiny steel and glass structure built on the site of the previous bricks and mortar school has always been a magnet for… something other.As far back as sixty years ago it was attracting unearthly children and it seems even a wash and brush up hasn’t...
Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a business-man, divorced and with such a focus on his work that he gets his daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) the same present two years running. This year, her only wish is for her father to take her to see her mother in Busan and so, balancing...
Bonnie Black is dying. At 80 years old, she’s lived a full life, full of the myriad triumphs and disappointments, happiness and sadness that go to make up an existence – but her body is entering its twilight and if she’s not ready to shuffle off her mortal coil,...
Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List) is a decorated detective, celebrating her twenty-eighth birthday and likely to be proposed to by her boyfriend. She loves her job, her fiancee and her mother dearly – the only thing that still haunts some of her moments is the knowledge that her late father...
Hayes Morrison (Haley Atwell) may be the daughter of an ex-President and possess the savvy mind of a great attorney but she’s also a self-destructive rebel and a magnate for self-inflicted trouble . But when she’s caught for cocaine-possession, she’s offered the deal of a lifetime. Due to a...
The near future. Leaps in technology and the lifelong work of Doctor Robert Ford (Sir Anthony Hopkins) have allowed advancements in cyber-technology. So much so that the very richest and most influential people can buy time at an isolated park where they can live out a range of storylines...
All through his young life, Jake (Asa Butterfield) has listened in awe to the tales his grandfather, Abe (Terrence Stamp), told of his youth… of monsters real and metaphorical and of the strange people he met. However age has taken its toll and it now appears that Abe cannot...
“One helluva day…” muses Natascha McElhlone’s new first lady Alex Kirkman as she gets ready to accompany her husband Tom and survey the damage to Washington DC in the second episode of new drama Designated Survivor (broadcast by ABC in the US and available on Netflix in other territories) As Jack...
As a push takes place against drug cartels in Florida, Captain Jackie Velez (Lina Esco) of the Miami-Dade Police Department is murdered, but manages to send out a text...
Alexander Hale is a first-generation Chinese American who takes his allegiance to the US seriously. As a Marine he’s part of an assault team in Belarus. The mission goes...
The end was not only nigh, but feature-length as a two-hour plus episode of Stranger Things attempted to tie-off or trim every major thread from its five season run....
Three more episodes of Stranger Things‘ final season/volume dropped on Christmas Day ahead of the feature-length 31st December finale. It may feel like the spacing of this final run...