Mars Created by Ben Young Mason & Justin Wilkes Based on How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek Developed by Ben Young Mason, André Bormanis, Mickey Fisher, Karen Janszen, Jonathan Silberberg Starring Ben Cotton, Alberto Ammann, Anamaria Marinca, Clémentine Poidatz, Jihae Kim, Sammi Rotibi Composers Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Hard science fiction is …
Crispr Crittrs: a review of unnatural selection Created and directed by Leeor Kaufman & Joe Egender There was a wonkish phrase, buried in various molecular biology papers, seemingly designed to make readers’ eyes glaze over. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. In bacteria, they are sequences of DNA grabbed from invading organisms (viruses, or sometimes …
Master Tapes: a review of ReMastered Michael & Jeff Zimbalist producers, various directors for each episode. Netflix has come out with an amazing documentary series about the lives and deaths of six great musicians of the twentieth century. Each episode is multiplex, deeply layered, a searching examination of the music the men made, the social …
April 7th 2019 Narrated by David Attenborough No. of episodes 8 Executive producers: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Colin Butfield Production companies: Silverback Films, World Wide Fund for Nature NOTE: Attenborough, nearing 93 years of age, is limited to the role of narrator. However, he will not put his imprimateur on anything not up to his …
One Strange Rock produced by Nutopia in conjunction with Darren Aronofsky, National Geographic 2018 Hosted by: Will Smith, Astronauts: Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Mae Jemison, Leland Melvin, Mike Massimino, Jerry Linenger, and Peggy Whitson. Hmm. American documentary hosted by Will Smith. That didn’t sound very promising. I know nothing of Smith the …
Chasing Rent: a review of “This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy” Adam McKay, who has left Will Farrell behind in order to write spritely comedies about economics and neo-fascist politics, has produced an eight-part series for Amazon, This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy. Despite what the title suggests, the series isn’t …
I Am A Killer Netflix, 2018, 10 50 minute episodes. Produced in collaboration with A+E Networks U.K. and Sky Vision Productions Produced by Tom Adams and Kathy Hale James “Chicken Head” Robinson killed Frank Hart. There is no dispute about that. He told the authorities that he did it deliberately, and with forethought, because he …