We haven’t been doing summer weekend reviews of older films and shows, so here’s a bingeworthy series from 2019 which received a surprise second season in 2022. We’ll get to that (and Sandman) later. Meanwhile, here are four fascinating, rotoscoped hours of psychological drama, comedy, dark secrets, and time-travel.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Nichelle Nichols, R.I.P.
Nichelle Nichols, the groundbreaking actress best-known as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series and subsequent films, has died of natural causes. She was 89 years old.
TV Series Review: Paper Girls (Season One)
I am a fan of the graphic novel, which was the timey-whimy and less nostalgia-smitten Stranger Things with female protagonists, before Stranger Things existed. I awaited the Amazon adaptation with hope and trepidation.
Season One dropped this past weekend. What’s the verdict?
Alan Grant, R.I.P.
Legendary and influential comics writer Alan Grant has died at the age of 73. He is best-known for his work on Batman and Judge Dredd.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds– “Spock Amok” and “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”
The two most recent episodes of Strange New Worlds include a quirky comedy and a riff on an old philosophical question, one better explored in a classic story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review– “Memento Mori”
Strange New Worlds serves up some military SF this week, keeps the enemies in the shadows, and delivers the strongest episode thus far.
Thor returns with Love and Thunder!
Marvel’s next entry in the MCU brings back Thor, Valkyrie, and Thor… And a few other gods….
Star Trek Strange New Worlds Review: “Ghosts of Illyeria”
This week features a more-or-less standalone episode that draws on Trek lore. Pike and Spock try to unravel the mysteries of the Ontario Place pods an abandoned alien colony, while the rest of the Away Team returns carrying a strange illness. Curiously, it does not affect Number One– a character Roddenberry intended to be mysterious.
What secrets will we uncover?
Novel Review: Sea of Tranquility
No star burns forever.
Emily St. John Mandel has always played with genre. The post-apocalyptic Station Eleven won accolades in both literary and SF circles, while Glass Hotel, a novel about a Ponzi Scheme, brushed against the edges of SF and Fantasy.
Some of Glass Hotel‘s characters reappear in her most recent novel, while the ghosts of Station Eleven haunt the book. It’s a time-travel story, set in pasts, presents, and futures.
She-Hulk Trailer!
The She-Hulk finally joins the MCU this coming August. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will definitely have a comic tone as it follows the adventures of Jennifer Walters, superhero and public face of her firm’s metahuman law division.