A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …
Month: December 2023
Presented by Tim Dunn & Siddy Holloway Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 3 No. of episodes 26 Production Executive producer Rob Dersley Running time 44 minutes Production company Brown Bob Productions Original release Network Yesterday / UKTV Release 19 July 2021 – present Neil Gaiman has amassed a huge body of work …
The Artifact Peter Cawdron 307 pp, copyright 2023 Peter Cawdron An archeologist from Britain (OK, Wales; I know there’s a world of difference between Bristol and Cardiff) has heard rumors of a strange object in a remote village in Libya, Harat Zuwayyah. This is in the deepest part of the Sahara. Doctor Susan Taylor, along …
I wouldn’t hazard to guess if the New Christy Minstrels had the legend of the Green Man in mind when they performed what is arguably their most famous song. Some of the lyrics harken to the legend: “Well, I told my mama on the day I was born, don’tcha cry when you see I’m gone,” …
Oppenheimer Directed by Christopher Nolan Screenplay by Christopher Nolan Based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven & Christopher Nolan Cast Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer’s …
Blue Eye Samurai Created by Amber Noizumi & Michael Green Directed by Jane Wu Voice cast Main Maya Erskine as Mizu, a mixed-race blue-eyed bushi. Masi Oka as Ringo, an optimistic, handless male cook who idolizes Mizu. Darren Barnet as Taigen, a promising but arrogant male swordsman of humble origins. Brenda Song as Princess Akemi, …
The Grifter’s Daughter: Vol 1-6, AKA The Dani Silver seriesDuane Lindsay 1962 pages, Kindle EditionPublished September 2, 2022 From the Goodreads blurb page: “WITH SO MANY DISHONEST MARKS NEEDING TO BE SCAMMED, AN AVENGING ANGEL HAS NEVER BEEN SO DELICIOUSLY CROOKED!“It’s not the money. Dani Silver, the second-best living con artist (the first being her …
Peter Watts, Tor Books, copyright 1999 Altering humans in order to live in alien environments isn’t a new concept in science fiction. John Varley, with his symbiotic exosuits, has made a career of it. Peter Watts has surgically and technologically altered his characters to live in the most alien and inhuman environment on Earth: at …
Song of the Bandits Hangul 도적: 칼의 소리 Hanja 盜賊: 칼의 소리 Literal meaning Thief: Sound of the Sword Revised Romanization Dojeok: Kar-ui sori McCune–Reischauer Tojŏk: k’arŭi sori Created by Netflix Developed by Studio Dragon (production planning) Written by Han Jung-hoon Directed by Hwang Jun-hyeok, Park Hyun-suk Starring Kim Nam-gil Seohyun Yoo Jae-myung Lee Hyun-wook …