We’ll have a more detailed review next week, when the series concludes. Meanwhile, the Bureau considers Orphan Black‘s penultimate episode. What rough beast slouches towards Toronto to be born?
Aug 06, 2017
Greatest Science Fiction Novel Tournament: Week 22, Round One
The latest round of voting takes place here.
Aug 01, 2017
Detour (5×04): X-Files Retrospective Podcast #111
The latest episode of the X-Files Retrospective podcast, covering Detour (5×04), is now available here for your listening pleasure. Intro and outro music attribution is below. You can also follow the show from its own feed (RSS, iTunes, Stitcher) or through the Bureau 42 Master Audio Feed (RSS, iTunes, Stitcher).
Jul 31, 2017
Orphan Black Review: “Guillotines Decide”
As the blade is about to drop on this show, the Neolutionists’ crimes are downloaded, and three significant characters are down for good.
Jul 30, 2017
Greatest Science Fiction Novel Tournament – Week 21, Round One
We are officially at the half way point, with this round of voting.
Jul 30, 2017
Weekly New Releases – August 1, 2017
This is another light week, with a decent selection of 1980s and 1990s era library titles.
Jul 29, 2017
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Last-week’s San Diego Comic-con saw a display of a real-life Iron Manesque “jet-powered Exosuit.” Reality falls short of fiction, but it’s still pretty cool.
More on Comic-Con, science, and tech, below:
Jul 28, 2017
12 Monkeys Review: “Masks,” “Thief,” “Witness”
While 12 Monkeys does a good job of telling a story in each episode, the series relies heavily on the story arc, and so the final three episodes of the penultimate season are being considered as a piece.
We learn the truth about the Witness, with one season left.
We’re all frakking witnesses!
Jul 28, 2017
Discussion: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The visuals look spectacular, but it takes more than that to win an audience in 2017, and the most expensive indie film in history, based on the French-language comic, has underperformed at the box office.
Has anyone here watched it?
Aug 07, 2017
Movie Review: The Dark Tower
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Some version of King’s complicated genre-and-canon-spanning series makes it to the big screen.
Whether it’s worth making it to the theatre to watch is another matter.
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