The Expanse continues with its fourth third and, to date, best season, as characters old and new confront a thing both terrifying and unknown. The ring may be a Big Object, but it’s not a Dumb one.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
TV Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Episode 1
Joan Lindsay’s notorious novel (1967) birthed a stage play and a classic of Aussie cinema (1975), a movie that manages to bridge Merchant Ivory and The Twilight Zone. The memorable picnic could make an intriguing mini-series (2018). It’s not clear, however, from the first episode, if that’s what we’re going to see.
Summer Reading Review: Fifteen Dogs
Somewhere around midnight, Rose, a German shepherd, stopped as she was licking her vagina and wondered how long she would be in the place she found herself. She then wondered what had happened to the last litter she’d whelped. It suddenly seemed grossly unfair that one should go through the trouble of having pups only to lose track of them (15)
Our Summer Reading and Summer Weekend Movie Reviews generally consist of older material, things we missed the first time around or that might not immediately occur to the Bureau-crats. Fifteen Dogs, a fabulous (in the original sense) award-winning short novel tells the tale of some Toronto canines who achieve sentience on the whim of a couple of gods.
Is there life on Mars?
The discovery of organic matter and methane on Mars does not prove that the planet does or once did support living organisms, but it bolsters that case significantly.
Summer Movie Review: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975)
With the hyperbolic miniseries adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s celebrated novel currently in first run, our first Summer Movie Review of July 2018 looks back to 1975, and Peter Weir’s handling of the same material. Critics widely hail Picnic at Hanging Rock as a defining moment in Australian cinema. How does the film, a sort of Merchant Ivory meets The Twilight Zone, play more than 42 years later?
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Baggage,” “Other Women,” “Seeds,” “First Blood”
Season Two of The Handmaid’s Tale explores new aspects of Gileadean society, reveals the pasts of characters, weds Nick to a child-bride, and then….
The Expanse: “Delta V”
The Expanse may be saved by Amazon, and we may yet see another season. If we don’t, at least we have the remainder of Season Three, which plays like the start of a new season. Months have passed since the events depicted in “Immolation,” humans are trying to work together, our ragtag band of heroes have been, to some degree, separated, multiple new characters appear, and the protomolecule’s machinations have fabricated a vast and bewildering mystery object.
The Terror Review: The Final Four Episodes
The final four episodes form a definite arc of the story, and a single director oversees the crew’s march into history– and death.
The Expanse Review: “IFF,” “Assured Destruction,” “Reload,” “Triple Point,” and “Immolation”
We’re closing in on the end of Season Three. Actually, it might be the end of the series.
And the world as we know it.
Live Spacewalk
For those interested parties, NASA is telecasting a spacewalk on May 16, 2018.