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.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Orphan Black Review: “One Fettered Slave”
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?
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.
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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:
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!
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?
Orphan Black Review: “Gag or Throttle”
Out, vile jelly!
Where is thy lustre now?
—King Lear, Act III, Scene vii
More long-unseen characters return as the Neolutionists move to harvest Kira’s eggs.
We see flashbacks to Rachel’s past, as she casts her eye on joining Clone Club.
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San Diego Comic-Con starts this week, but it’s not the only thing happening of interest to nerds. Click for news (and signals) from space, an update on the prehistoric Tyrannosaur, and modern tech used to save a turtle’s life.
George A. Romero, dead at 77
George Romero died this week. His most noteworthy film, Night of the Living Dead, combined Afro-Caribbean zombies with Middle Eastern ghouls and his own concepts and invented the modern zombie.
May he Rest in Peace.
Orphan Black Review: “Slim Manacled Wrists”
While not one of the strongest episodes, this week’s Orphan Black accomplishes much, revealing the truth behind P.T. Westmoreland, Mud, and the island, reintroducing Krystal for some broad comedy, and setting up the possible demise of several characters by taking the Island of Dr. Moreau parallels to the brink of their dark, logical conclusion.