Picard Is Not Made For New Fans At All Once I knew I was reviewing Picard, I had every intention to go into the show with the mindset of a new Star Trek fan—having seen one or two episodes of TNG only. I wanted to review for fresh eyes. This turned out to be difficult….
Just Add Magic is an Amazon Original “Kids” show available for free with Amazon Prime. Though labeled for kids 6 – 11 (I have no idea how they come up with those numbers), having binged watched 2 seasons and now on Season 3, I can assure you, Just Add Magic is as much “for kids”…
The Old Guard Is A Breath Of Fresh Air The Old Guard is perfect at what it wants to be. It’s an action movie with a tight fantastical premise and stellar execution. By chance, I saw a five-minute scene and was immediately hooked. And that was because of smart storytelling in the scene, but once…
Lower Decks Has Yet To Make Me Laugh The biggest issue with Lower Decks is that it’s not funny. Not at all. And, for a series supposed to be a comedy, that’s a brutal failure. You can tell where the show is supposed to be funny, where it intends to make you laugh, but it…
The Rental Takes Its Time To Scare You To call The Rental horror is to mislabel it. While it contains scenes of abject unpleasantness and shockingly dark moments, it’s only in its ending it claims any real signifiers of the genre. No, what The Rental is, is a thriller with a heavy emphasis on character work,…
There’s a lot of amazing modern sci-fi, fantasy, or horror series to stream. But there’s also some classic—and iconic—shows that every fan of those genres should experience at least once. And a lot of them you can still watch online. So, to broaden horizons and nudge a new generation of fans toward seminal classics, here’s…
Trek Tuesday? Maybe it will be a thing. But today is Monday you say? Well, it’s Tuesday somewhere. 😉 While the number of Star Trek fan films could fill months of watching, few are as well known as Prelude To Axanar – the award winning fan film featuring Star Trek series actors that kicked off…
Ghosts of War Shows So Much Initial Promise Ghosts of War has given me mixed feelings ever since I finished watching it. Even as I type this, I am unsure of what to make of this movie. It is two ideas wrapped into one, and one half is so much better than the other. The basic…
Volition Is Much Smarter Than It Initially Seems Volition was the movie I didn’t know I needed. It was refreshing and enjoyable to get a film deftly and almost immaculately telling a story of time travel, premonitions, and cause and effect. Volition doesn’t start off seeming that way, though. At first, it gives off a vaguely…
In this age of 9-figure blockbusters riddled with more special effects and stunts than story and substance, comes the refreshing anthology / chronology hybrid, Tales From The Loop. Think Alfred Hitchcock Presents meets The Twilight Zone meets The Leftovers and you’ll begin to get a slight idea of what to expect from this Amazon Original…
Lab Rat Is Another Thoughtful Bit Of Sci-Fi I was fortunate enough to get to see Lab Rat before the movie was released online for streaming. And, upon mentally preparing for the writing of this review, my immediate thought is it is nice to see that classic-style sci-fi stories are still being made. Because that’s…
Quick note to let all the Stargate fans out there know that you can watch all the Stargate series right now on Amazon Prime for free. BUT, they’ll be gone at midnight on July 19th. It is unknown whether or not they’ll be available for purchase on Amazon after July 20th. It is suspected, that…
