• Hallowed Grounding: #TimesUp for Michael Myers?

    Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. Though her physical scars healed, the mental ones did not and she always believed that the almost supernaturally-empowered figure...
  • Crowd Atlas: How ‘Searching’ found its audience….

    David Lee (John Cho), his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) and daughter Margot (Michelle La) are a typical close-knit family: the doting parents who have encouraged their daughter to follow in her mother’s step as a potentially great pianist. But when David loses Sara to cancer his relationship to Margot...
  • Pure Escapism: Rainn cleans up as Mudd for latest Short Trek…

    Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) is in trouble. To be fair that’s nothing new. But it appears that this time he’s going to have to use every dirty trick in his arsenal to convince his captor, a sceptical Tellarite (Harry Judge) not to hand him over to the Federation for...
  • Herculean Effort: The ABCs of Being John Malkovich’s ‘Poirot’…

    England, 1933: In Andover, a woman named  Alice Asher doesn’t answer the door of her store but it will be some time before her violent death is public knowledge. A short time later, Betty Barnard from Bexhill, a bed-hopping social-climber is found butchered. The police become aware of the...
  • Doctor Who: Talking about a ‘Resolution’ (of the…)…

    The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is giving her team a treat, a successive string of ‘New Year’ celebrations across the galaxy. But their celebrations are cut short when the Tardis alerts her to There was no unwrapping of an extraterrestrial signal that seems to be pulling different objects together from...
  • Doug Aarniokoski: Of Long Games and Short Treks…

    While Doug Aarniokoski first made his name handling many second-unit direction duties for friend and colleague Robert Rodriguez (and subsequently made his own feature films such as Highlander: Endgame, grand-guignol romp Nurse 3D and the post-apocalyptic The Day), it’s his work on television that has seen him rapidly become...
  • Bullock’s ‘Bird Box’ is a Quite Familiar Place…

    A young woman named Malorie (Sandra Bullock) instructs two young children on the importance of following her rules to the letter.  They can’t question her decisions. They can’t remove their blindfolds. If they do, they will die. The journey ahead will be difficult and they must literally hang on...
  • The Predator: An alienated Fumble in the Jungle…

    Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) is a sniper with a group of black-ops soldiers taking down a cartel in Mexico.  Unfortunately their mission goes wrong, due in large part to the crashing of what appears to be an alien craft in to the nearby jungle. After encountering its occupant, McKenna...
  • ‘Travelers’: Netflix’s agents of change stand test of time…

    A century from now, the entire world is on the verge of collapse, destroyed by a combination of natural disasters and human conflict and an initiative to change the course of history has been devised.  An almost omnipotent artificial intelligence (known as ‘the Director’) has been built and managed...
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