• Tapped Out: Fun, but ‘Zombieland’ sequel lacks heart or brains…

    Ten years after  Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenbrg), Witchita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) somehow survived the zombie apocalypse, they’ve continued to make their way through America, cutting down any of the undead that get in their way – sticking to their rules and routines for...
  • Treadstone: Tinkered, tailored, soldier-spies are Bourne again…

    It’s 1973 and in the heart of Berlin an American is being tortured – but it’s not for what he knows,  it is for the actions his captors want him to take. And after days of resistance, it seems they have won as J. Randolph Bentley (played by War...
  • NEW-TV: Derivative ‘Drew’ offers few mysteries…

    Nancy Drew (Kennedy McCann) had it all – she was intelligent enough to show-up the local police’s efforts in finding a missing classmate and eventually became the town of Horseshoe Bay’s own prom-queen.  But the death of her mother changed her life and instead of sailing off to a...
  • ‘El Camino’: The Good, the ‘Bad’ and the extended epilogue… (SPOILERS)

    Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) is on the run. After escaping the brutal clutches of the White Supremacists who were holding and torturing him into making their Meth, his uneasy and fateful comradeship with ‘mentor’ Walter White (Bryan Cranston) gave him and out and as the police closed in on...
  • Passé Doublé? Smith ² actioner has breadth but no depth…

    Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is one of the government’s top assassins, regularly bringing down bad guys when deniability is needed. He’s a principled guy, but has served his government faithfully. When he announces his retirement after a particularly tricky kill that nearly had collateral damage, all he wants to...
  • Short Treks: All about the base (Cabot base)… now Tribble?

    One of the most memorable and offbeat episodes of the original Star Trek was David Gerrold’s The Trouble with Tribbles in which the Enterprise of Kirk’s era encountered seemingly harmless balls of fluff that turned out to breed at such an exponential rate that they soon became a threat...
  • Short Treks: How ‘Q&A’ elevates two classic characters…

    The second season of Star Trek: Discovery got a mixed reaction from fans… the general opinion being that it veered between getting things very right in certain respects to getting other things… less so. One consistent comment was that the main story itself was stretched way too far. However,...
  • NEW-TV: Hard Wayne, Soft Sell – Will Rose rise as ‘Batwoman’?

    Three years ago Batman disappeared and though the citizens of Gotham have looked to the skyscrapers and spires, there’s been no sign of their Dark Knight in all that time. Some think he’s dead, others that he simply deserted them. In the meantime, Crow Security has stepped into the...
  • The X Factions: What next for TWD’s tenth series (and beyond)?

    It’s been confirmed on the eve of the tenth season debut that The Walking Dead will be back for an eleventh run next year and that Lauren Cohan will be returning full-time as Maggie. Neither news is hugely surprising… the show is still at the forefront of the AMC...
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