Dracula Receives The Sherlock Treatment Apparently, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have found their niche in doing slick adaptations of classic literature, because here they go again with Dracula. And Dracula’s first episode blew me away. It’s so rare now to get a truly gothic and horrific take on vampires and to see gore like…
BEWARE: I spoil. Yes, I drew that on Paint. Yes, it looks like a 10-year-old made it, and so what? It’s a completely accurate depiction of the relationships between major groups in Orphan Black. There’s so much talk about the clones because they’re the stars of the show, but not nearly enough about the people…
The best part about reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman is that it was so many things. It was fantastical and full of wonder, but it was dark and daring and felt almost forbidden, but at the same time was something I was eager to share. I was more than bummed out…
The brilliant and absolutely wonderful sci-fi miniseries, Black Mirror, is already available on Netflix and if you haven’t seen it yet, then what is your deal? I’m kidding, but please do check it out, because it’s a twisted and technical look at our society and it’s actually very interesting and enticing. Currently, the entire series…
It’s been far too long since the world has seen the twelfth doctor and we still have another month of waiting. Series nine will premiere on September 19th with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman bumbling through space and time. Get a look at the trailer. Ugh, Peter Capaldi is so good he makes my face…
In the UK, three years before Captain Kirk boldly went where no man had gone before, a shabby-looking, blue police telephone box materialized out of thin air and into the hearts and minds of a new generation of viewers. The Doctor had just announced his presence to an early 60s Saturday teatime audience. The blue…
This topic is a potential minefield to navigate, yet it is one that keeps cropping up on the internet the more and more I search. I recently went to the Science Museum in central London. As a kid, this was one of my favorite museums (the Geological was a close second—it had an earthquake machine!),…
In a time of massive budgets and CGI overloads, there is a special place in science fiction for the low budget. The people behind The Drift agree. The movie is a passion project for director Darren Scales and his team of over a hundred volunteers who have been working for three years to turn out 100…
Part one in the Doctor Who series eight finale literally hit the ground running. I didn’t really care for Danny. He was your normal guy. Liked to challenge the Doctor, which I admired, but overall he wasn’t someone that I particularly cared for. Except he died. He died, and however irritating Clara was this season,…
“Didn’t your mom ever tell you not to pick up hitchhikers?” We’re going to start calling our creepy little girl Marcus, since only flashing images remain of Madison. Incidentally, Marcus is so much more interesting and less confusing than Amy. We finally see him in a more appropriate body, an old man Shepherd has been…
Trust me when I say that I love Daleks. With a few exceptions, Dalek episodes always turn out to be some of my favorites from a season. Unfortunately, this is an exception. The episode started out well enough, though a little awkward, with the Doctor pulling a soldier out of a ship that was about…
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty years, Doctor Who is (aside from a sixteen-year gap between 1989 and 2005) one of the longest-lasting science fiction shows in the history of television. The series features the Doctor, a humanoid alien (called a Time Lord) who travels the universe…
