• Short Treks: ‘Ask Not…’ as Pike swaps Bridge for Brig…

    When the Enterprise and Starbase 28 come under a surprise attack from what appears to be the Tholians, a young cadet Thira Sidhu (Amrit Kauer) on assignment to the brig finds a high-profile prisoner placed under her watch. Apparently Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) has defied official orders and...
  • Knight Template: Does Disney+’s ‘Mandalorian’ deliver its bounty?

    For all that Disney+ is launching with the House of the Mouse’s impressive back-catalogue, even more Marvel content than expected and all several hours before the original mid-morning plan, all judgmental eyes seem to be on The Mandalorian, the Star Wars flagship spin-off that has been building expectations for...
  • Crossing the Streams: Tracking the future on your tv…

    Some people will remember the ‘good old days’ when you could count the number of available channels to watch on one hand. Over the last several decades that number has significantly increased and though the main networks continue to exist, it’s probably no longer true to say they dominate...
  • BBC/HBO weave complex magic from impressive ‘Materials’…

    A baby girl called Lyra is left in the care of Jordan College, Oxford as her previous guardian – Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) vanishes into the flooded grounds and night, telling the learned custodians at the door that he is invoking scholastic sanctuary for her. She can not, must...
  • APPLE-TV+: Moore presses Alt/Space for The Write Stuff…

    It’s the summer of ’69 and all across America, families gather to watch a truly historic event – the first man to step foot on the Moon. After some tense last-minute problems, the vessel lands and the first astronaut steps on to the distant, powdery surface, uttering the first...
  • APPLE-TV+: SEE. Saw, majorly flawed (but insightful?)…

    Centuries after a virus decimated the world’s population, the few survivors cling together in distant enclaves, trying to survive in a world that has left them alive but blind.  To even speak of the days when people could see is considered heresy and ‘witchfinders’ patrol, often leaving entire camps...
  • Brightburn: Superman’s The Jung and the Restless..?

    Tori Breyer (Elizabeth Banks) and her husband Kyle ( David Denman) are a mid-west couple working their homestead and longing for a child that seems like an impossibility. But one night something crashes into the edges of their land, something that they will tell people was just a falling...
  • ‘The Night Fire’: Bosch and Ballard feel the burn…

    Decades ago, when Harry Bosch was still a rookie detective his mentor was  John Jack Thompson, a man who taught him some of the earliest lessons of his career. Now, years later Thompson has just passed away – but his widow tells Harry she has a ‘murder book’ of...
  • The hook of ‘Eli’ – Netflix bursts a horror bubble…

    Eli (All the Money in the World‘s Charlie Shotwell) dreams of open fields and happy family parties, bu his everyday life is less happy. He’s kept either in a bubbled enclosure, away from the germs and modern day afflictions that might harm him, or wrapped up in a walking...
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