Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning 7th October 2018

**blows Dust Cumulation off of discussion posts** Woah, the new season is racing in, as The Flash, Black Lightning, and Riverdale join The Gifted as our weekly TV shows, and catching me off guard because I wasn’t paying attention.  I am leaving out our animated shows, but let me know if anyone is watching any […]

Movie Review: X-Men: Apocalypse

Following the past events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, it’s now the 1980s. Things seem to have been reasonably quiet since Magneto’s attack on the President, but that’s all about to change when the world’s first mutant wakes up. I’ve tried to be vague, but there may be some spoilers within.

Newspace

Robin Williams, the gifted comedian and actor who launched to fame playing a sitcom alien, has died of an apparent suicide. R.I.P. NASA tests robotic refuelling. They’re not quite transformers, but these MIT/Harvard-made shape-shifting robots, inspired by Origami, are amazing and inexpensive. Predictably, Disney will be expanding its Star Wars attractions at the Disney parks. […]

TV Review: The Sandman (Season One)

If dreams disappear, so will humanity. The long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has finally dropped the ten eleven episodes of Season One. It covers Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House, and a bit of Dream Country.

Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 April 11

I hope you Didn’t Count out the Arrowverse, because they’re back on the Television Table this week, as Batwoman faces Black Mask, Pennyworth gets Salty, Black Lightning brings Painkiller back (didn’t we already announce this episode?,) The Flash faces frosty foes, and Supergirl faces the largest letdown in prequel history.  Marvel doesn’t want to be […]

October Countdown: Rosemary’s Baby

This 1968 film, based on the novel by Ira Levin (reviewed below), emerged from a particular place and time, but it retains its power and its influence on pop culture cannot be denied. It’s not a horror movie in the conventional sense, but it certainly suits this season.

Bureau42 Review: Russian Doll

After death, you get another try.  The concept isn’t new, we’ve been used to this sort of thing happening ever since we first picked up Mario’s controller and ran into a mushroom and started the level over with this new found knowledge that mushrooms are deadly.  Remember when Groundhog Day made us chuckle as Bill […]