Despite the title, this episode is far better than a Louisiana-based unreality show. It does, however, feature the requisite faux horror-movie opening.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Weekend Review: Predestination
This Weekend Review takes us back in time a couple years to 2014, when Heinlein’s most notorious time-travel tale made it to the big screen.
Orphan Black Review: “From Dancing Mice to Psychopaths”
“He has his socks on.”
Orphan Black‘s current season concludes with cliffhangers for everyone—and one year left to go.
Twelve Monkeys Review: “Hyena”
“I asked you to be careful with the grenades. We got the discount for a reason.”
–Jennifer Goines
Preacher Discussion: “The Possibilities”
Preacher slowed a little this week, but it provided us with some essential backstory and a key moment in our protagonist’s journey. Reviews will return next week, but we have a place for discussion….
Weekend Review: The Conjuring
With The Conjuring 2 out this weekend, we thought we’d finally catch up to the original movie. It proved hugely successful with the horror-movie crowd, and convinced a few people that haunted homes are real, and may be lurking in your neighborhood.
If you missed it the first time around, should you see it now? Or next October?
Orphan Black Review: “The Mitigation of Competition”
Ari: You really don’t like her.
Rachel: She put a pencil in my brain.
In this season’s penultimate episode, some long-unseen characters reappear, the clones bear down on their enemies, and the island mystery deepens.
Helena goes full Ollie Queen.
12 Monkeys Mini-Review: “Lullaby”
Full reviews will return next week. This week, 12 Monkeys catches Cassie and Cole in a chaotic time-loop as they attempt to murder Katarina– at her request. The episode was an engaging puzzle with a plot-changing payoff. Jennifer Goines continues to emerge as a credible, if crazy, leader.
It was undercut only slightly by…
Preacher Review: “See”
The Preacher returns, with a glimpse of the past and forebodings of the future. Jesse is, however, getting on well with his new vampire pal.
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A Japanese baseball game between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Yakult Swallows played Ringu‘s Sadako and The Grudge‘s Kayako in a publicity stunt. Apparently a crossover movie is in the works. This is definitely a more horror-filled swing than that time Karloff took to home plate in full Frankenstein Monster make-up at a 1940 Hollywood Stars game.
Below: a meteor blazes over Phoenix, corporations look to the stars (or at least the moon and the asteroid belt), and cosplayers cosplay.