First aired August 5th, 2013. With the season halfway done, this episode of Under the Dome sets up new storylines to carry through the last few episodes. The biggest one is the introduction of a second dome, since apparently one wasn’t enough. This new mini dome is discovered by Joe and Norrie, who continue their…
Sci-fi fans have a painful burden to bear when it comes to getting their television shows cancelled or truncated (I see you, Browncoats, I see you). Fortunately, for those who wish Buffy the Vampire Slayer was still airing or that they could watch another season of The X-Files, there’s another visual medium that works well…
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….
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…
(WARNING: Potential Captain America: The Winter Soldier spoilers ahead. Proceed with caution.) There is no “nerd cred” test to watch a Marvel blockbuster. And if Marvel keeps doing what it’s doing, there never will be. But this little rundown might make it a bit easier to talk to any superfan friends you might have, or just to anyone…
First aired July 22nd, 2013. The army has organized a Visitor’s Day for the residents of Chester’s Mill, bringing in friends and loved ones. Everyone communicates using pads and message boards or in Linda’s case “kissing” her fiancé through the dome (not ten seconds after saying nobody should get anywhere near it). The cheerful mood…
The Thing (1982) from Universal Pictures The Fast Facts: Who: John Carpenter directed, Kurt Russell played the impressively bearded protagonist, and Rob Bottin created some memorable SFX and creatures. What: After bringing us Halloween (1978) and before directing Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Carpenter created this compact film that comfortably straddles the line between…
First aired July 15th, 2013. After about two days of hanging out outside the dome the army has decided to hit the road. But, before any large-scale riots can ensue, people begin collapsing with what’s later diagnosed as an outbreak of meningitis. It stands to reason that, being trapped in a confined space, illness could…
I still haven’t seen the new RoboCop, but I hear the most striking difference between the 1987 original and this newer version is how many fewer blood squibs make it on-screen. Yes, the improvements in CG animation means that the 300: Rise of an Empire can douse its characters in blood without having to do…
First aired July 8th, 2013. Crazy Cop from the previous episode is hauled into jail for killing his fellow officer. He is quick to blame the dome for what happened. Main cop Linda Esquivel locks him up but he pulls the oldest trick in the book: sick prisoner. Crazy Cop manages to outsmart Linda and…
The book-turned-movie Ender’s Game is what made me first ponder this subject, and thanks to the theater release of dystopian YA series, Divergent, I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Perhaps a change in medium can be enlivening to some books, but it is also true that there are just some beloved stories that we would hate…
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! We’ve all contemplated it at one point or another, tossed the idea back and forth in our minds. You know the one, the concept that this beautiful world in which we’re living is, in actuality, an elaborate fabrication. It’s that eerie suspicion that something this complex, this intricate, couldn’t possibly be real….
