God In Space: Religion in Science Fiction
What is the nature of faith? What does it mean to have a belief in a higher power, a resolve that God is ultimately just, and that everything happens for a reason? Why are we here? These are...
Category: Fantasy
Review: Syfy’s 12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam is famous for his bizarre, fractal, mysterious approach to filmmaking, whether he’s adapting from texts like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or developing original content. No matter...
Review: Birdman
What is it with back-stories? Every self-respecting superhero seems to need one and preferably the darker the better. The origin of this and the origin of that, why can’t they just be? Who said we...
Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Thorin Oakenshield stalks the great halls of Erebor like a Shakespearian king, tragedy draped around his shoulders. This doom-laden cloak threatens to drag the King Under The Mountain into a quagmire...
The Dark Side of the Doctor: Peter Capaldi’s First Doctor Who Christmas Special
Reunions are an inevitable theme of December holidays, as families get together to bicker over meals, cringe when ignorant distant relatives make irritating comments, and attempt to replicate...
Rewatching Twin Peaks: Does It Hold Up?
The minute the familiar opening montage of Twin Peaks flashes across the screen as I settle back to watch the pilot, I can feel my eyes tingling with nostalgia. The music swells, and we’re swept...
The New Wave of Comic Book TV Shows
In the next six years, we are facing down nearly 40 superhero films, according to announcements from the major studios. That is, to put it mildly, a lot of superhero movies. But the superhero...
Is Outlander the Feminist Answer to Game of Thrones?
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
The (Not So) Feminist Dream-Logic of American Horror Story: Freak Show
The life of a socially conscious American Horror Story fan is rarely an easy or enviable one. Actually, the life of a socially conscious, feminist horror fan is no walk in the park, generally...
An Older, Wiser Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi Takes Over
With the revelation of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, I was deeply skeptical, and a bit dismayed: Yet again, the series had gone with a white man, refusing to buck a long tradition in which white...