• Star Trek: Discovery – ‘Point of Light’ is more ‘Game of Klingons’…

    The repercussions of decisions made by Tyler (Shazad Latif) come home to roost as turbulent power-grabs remain the order of the day in the heart of the Klingon empire. But can even L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) protect him when the ‘Mother of Klingons’ has a pertinent secret of her own?...
  • Star Trek: Discovery – ‘New Eden’ is busy finding its religion…

    When another anomalous reading is detected  – similar to the mysterious pulses recently detected elsewhere in the galaxy – the only ship able to travel such distances in the needed speed is the Discovery. As Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Pike (Anson Mount) compare notes – and Spock’s current whereabouts...
  • Krona Chameleon: Foy’s Salander inks a more Batman/Bond-ian tattoo…

    Notorious hacker and punisher of evil men Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy)  returns to her base of operations and receives an offer that intrigues. A man named Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) is horrified that the computer program he created is going to be used less scrupulously by the American paymasters....
  • More isn’t Moore – Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ is shatteringly non-super…

    M. Night Shyamalan’s  1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
  • Noomi Rapace: Ready for her ‘Close’ up…

    Sam Carlson (Noomi Rapace) is a bodyguard / protection officer who takes her role very seriously. Able to put any doubts or personal problems aside to get the job done, she’s ruthless, pragmatic and incredibly good at her job.  But when her next assignment summons her from the sandy...
  • Discovering what makes modern ‘Trek’ tick is the next frontier…

    Fresh from circumventing the Klingon/Federation War and surviving the machinations of their Mirror Universe counterparts, the crew of the Discovery find there will be no shore leave as they are visited by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) who says he is there to assume command of the vessel.  Strange...
  • Will FOX’s ‘The Passage’ be Saved by the Girl..?

    When a science expedition to find an almost immortal man in the wilds of Bolivia goes horribly wrong, one of the scientists involved Dr. Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane) is left mortally wounded in an almost cannibalistic attack – or so it seems. In fact, he recovers from his injuries...
  • Do Not Resuscitate: Reeves’s ‘Replicas’ DNA drama is DOA…

    William Foster (Keanu Reeves) and  Ed (Thomas Middleditch) are scientists working on transferring the human consciousness into new synthetic hosts, but their efforts have hit a brick-wall and their funding from Bionyne’s  head honcho Jones (John Ortiz) is about to dry up. Despite the warnings from his wife Mona...
  • The Art of the Good Sheppard – Remembering ‘W. Morgan’…

    Veteran actor William Morgan Sheppard, who passed away this week at the age of 86, was one of those people you don’t easily forget. Visually and temperamentally, he was somehow an impossible cross between Popeye and Father Christmas, a young mischievous soul inside a savvy, dry-witted veteran’s body and...
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