Note: This review was written in late 2017 for Electric Review. John, perhaps because of unfamiliarity with the series, elected not to run this one, presumably because Electric Review is aimed at a more sophisticated readership. I happened across it while looking for something else on my backup drive, and decided it would be suitable …
Created by Bryan Fuller & Alex Kurtzman Based on Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, & Anson Mount Season One of Star Trek Discovery was daring, inventive, and featured some of the most sophisticated and deep writing seen in any Star …
Happy! Created by Grant Morrison & Darick Robertson Directed by Brian Taylor, David Petrarca, & Wayne Yip Starring Christopher Meloni, Bryce Lorenzo, Ritchie Coster, Lili Mirojnick, Medina Senghore, Patrick Fischler Voice of Patton Oswalt To say that Hello! is over the top is like saying a Carolina Reaper pepper is spicy. Take elements from the …
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Directed by David Slade Produced by Russell McLean Written by Charlie Brooker Starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe Production company Netflix Distributed by Netflix I didn’t rush to watch Bandersnatch before because I read that it was based on 1980s computer interactive games. Aside from sounding like …
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Genre; Adventure, Action, Comedy-drama, Fantasy Created by; Guillermo del Toro Based on; Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Written by; Guillermo del Toro, Marc Guggenheim, Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman, Aaron Waltke, Chad Quandt, A.C. Bradley Voices of: Anton Yelchin, Kelsey Grammer, Charlie Saxton, Lexi Medrano, Jonathan Hyde, Fred Tatasciore, …
Based on Watership Down by Richard Adams Screenplay by Tom Bidwell Directed by Noam Murro Starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Ben Kingsley, Tom Wilkinson, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, Olivia Colman, Mackenzie Crook, Anne-Marie Duff Production company(s) 42, Brown Bag Films, Biscuit Filmworks, BBC, Netflix “All the world will be your enemy, Prince with …
Maggots in the Cantaloupe: A review of Outsider Stephen King, Scribner books copyright 2018, 560 pages. Terry Maitland, a teacher and little league coach in Oklahoma, is accused of raping, mutilating and killing an eleven year old boy. There are eyewitnesses, there are fingerprints, there is DNA evidence. The local cops are so sure he …
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Directed by Andy Serkis Produced by Steve Kloves Jonathan Cavendish David Barron Screenplay by Callie Kloves Based on All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling Rohan Chand as Mowgli Matthew Rhys as John Lockwood Freida Pinto as Messua Voice and motion-capture cast Christian Bale as Bagheera the black panther Benedict …
Mr. Mercedes (Season 2) Audience, AT&T, Produced by: David E. Kelley Productions, Nomadicfilm, Temple Hill Productions, Sonar Entertainment Starring: Brendan Gleeson as Detective Bill Hodges Harry Treadaway as Brady Hartsfield Jharrel Jerome as Jerome Robinson Scott Lawrence as Detective Peter Dixon Breeda Wool as Lou Linklatter Justine Lupe as Holly Gibney Holland Taylor as Ida …
Who? Head Writer and Executive Producer – Chris Chibnall, Executive producers – Matt Strevens and Sam Hoyle, BBC Starring Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole & Mandip Gill Jodie Whittaker had some big shoes to fill. There have been 12 doctors since 1963, the latest of whom was Peter Capaldi, he of the magnificently craggy …