First aired April 7th, 2014. The Atrians are preparing to celebrate Dinaskyu, a holiday that is like Christmas and Thanksgiving combined. For the first time, humans will be allowed to celebrate, so Roman invites his new secret lover, Emery. Emery and Julia celebrate with Roman and Sophia, but their mother, Maia (played by Susan Walters),…
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) from Kennedy Miller Productions The Fast Facts: Who: Directed by Australians George Miller (Mad Max, Mad Max: Road Warrior) and George Ogilvie, acted by scruffy Aussie Mel Gibson, and with an eye-catching performance by non-Aussie Tina Turner. What: The third in the Mad Max series about a rough and ready…
First aired March 21st, 2014. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when that woman is an undercover alien soldier. After Zoe’s plans last episode were thwarted by Roman and Drake, she moves on to a new plan: killing every human in town. The cube that was planted a while back has grown…
BEWARE: I Spoil. Whenever someone finds out that Evony is human, she gets a WHAP right in the face. That’s how I feel about the Lost Girl season finale, like someone punched me in the face, and now I am bleeding my fandom all over the carpet and sobbing teardrops of OTPs lost. The gang…
Being trapped in a never-ending maze sounds like a recurring nightmare people have and J.M. McDermott brings it to life in his book Maze. Maze follows the stories of a handful of people who each find themselves stuck in an endless maze with only one option: survive. There is a tribe of humans who live…
Guess what? It’s spoiler free! —The Editor Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a lot of responsibilities to balance for a superhero action film. It’s a Captain America sequel, an Avengers sequel, and an important building block in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase Two. With fiery car chases, martial arts duels, and more S.H.I.E.L.D….
BEWARE: I Spoil. I need Bo to get off drugs. Pronto. Rainer is a drug to her, and I just don’t like it. I’ve complained to you before how I hate this love-drunk, princess, naive girl that’s she’s become. How many times do you have to hear “death and destruction” before you get it? Anyway,…
Dune (1984) from Dino De Laurentis Productions The Fast Facts: Who: Directed by David Lynch (Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) debuts as the singular Paul Atreides, while actors like Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Brad Dourif play secondary characters (!). What: Paul Atreides, the son of Duke Leto Atreides and…
First aired July 29th, 2013. It’s finally starting to hit the residents of Chester’s Mill that they can run out of supplies, being trapped under the dome. When Barbie (played by Mike Vogel) and Linda (played by Natalie Martinez) discover the lake water is flammable, things begin to fall apart. First, people fight with the…
First aired March 24th, 2014. Star-Crossed opens another episode with a bang, this time courtesy of the Red Hawks. They planned to bomb the Atrian Sector but undercover Trag Zoe (played by Dora Madison Burge) blew them up instead. As retribution, Zoe and Drake (played by Greg Finley) are tasked with kidnapping Grayson (played by…
BEWARE: I Spoil. As a self-proclaimed and certified Newbie, every week it is my goal to throw myself headfirst into all things sci-fi, specifically peering into some of the most critically acclaimed TV shows and movies! I check out the show in pure tabula rasa fashion, with typically nada knowledge about the premise and letting…
If I had to choose one word to describe the recently released Divergent movie, it would be “exception,” because that’s exactly what the film represents to me. The rule is that, usually, a book is far superior to its cinematic adaptation. How can we forget the countless works of art that felt so amazing on paper,…
