• Twilight Zone: ‘A Traveler’… is a journeyman entry…

    It’s Christmas Eve in Iglaak, Alaska and the small community’s annual party at the sheriff’s station is underway. Each year, the local police captain Lance Pendelton (Greg Kinnear) extols the virtues of his own beliefs and takes pleasure in benevolently ‘pardoning’ some minor crime.  Innuit Officer Yuka (Marika Sila)...
  • The view from abridged: Star Trek’s Un-Discovery-ed Country…

    With ‘Control’ moving in to get the Sphere and retrieve the data that could lead to cosmic extinction, the battle is on and a war for survival begins. It’s the Discovery and the Enterprise vs. a fleet of Ai ships and no way to summon more help. Burnham and...
  • No ‘Bones’ about it: Connolly’s epic takes its damned tome…

    There are places in this world  – and perhaps others – that have ancient, profane power and encountering their touch can bring tragedy and pain. Maine-based private detective Charlie Parker knows that more than most and has spent much of his life avoiding that touch or seeking it out as...
  • ‘Winterfell’ is here. Game of Thrones roars back…

    So. Winter is no longer coming, it’s finally here and there’s little doubt the most watched hour of television on Sunday night was the opening salvo in the final season of HBO‘s Game of Thrones. There’s an argument that the much-anticipated return to Westeros could never live up to...
  • Discovery’s ‘Such Sweet Sorrows’ – Hurry up but Weight…

    The decision to abandon and destroy Discovery does not go as well as planned when the Sphere data protects the entire ship and not just it database. It appears the crews of the Discovery and the Enterprise are running out of options but another idea is raised. if the...
  • Twilight Zone: Profiling the Colour of Authority…

    Nina (Sanaa Lathan) and her son Dorian (Damsan Idris) are on a drive, taking Dorian to college. Nina escaped a poor and largely prospect-free childhood environment and made a successful legal career for herself and now wants the same  – and more – opportunities for her son. Dorian will...
  • Noises off: Netflix’s ‘Silence’ adaptation is sadly tome deaf…

    When a caving group finally manage to enter a vast series of underground caverns, they think they’ve made a significant breakthrough, but instead they’ve initiated an historical breakout as a previously unknown breed of winged creatures pour out of the new opening and out in to the wider world. ...
  • Shiv and Let Die? Bleeding wonderful ‘Killing Eve’ returns…

    It’s barely a minute after UK intelligence analyst Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) skewered her quarry, the highly-financed, somewhat unbalanced assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer), an act which surprised both of them. Villanelle has fled her Paris apartment and Eve is close behind. Both narrowly avoid a trio of...
  • Twilight Zone: Less scare miles, more cabin pressure…

    The second Twilight Zone episode sees a reinterpretation of one of the classic show’s most memorable episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet – though now upped to 30,000… because, hey, inflation.  The original story saw airline passenger William Shatner becoming convinced that there’s a gremlin on the wing of the...
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