“My name is Max and my world is fire and blood.” Oh boy if that line doesn’t get the gasoline flowing into the old V8 engine and have you reaching for the American Football shoulder pads,...
The CW’s The 100 has become bizarrely compelling for me in a way I totally didn’t expect. Every time a new science fiction show crops up on the horizon, I quiver with excitement, hoping that it...
NBC is once again venturing into musical territory with a production of Peter Pan, and the internet is abuzz over the casting of actress Allison Williams in the title role. She’s certainly got the...
“Guardians of the Galaxy” is being billed as a “different” kind of Marvel movie. In many ways, that’s true: It takes place in a distant part of the galaxy, and a fictional reality that’s...
We’re stalking down a smart Parisian street flanked by trees. Thunder and lightning rip through the night sky like the by-product of a supernatural visit. We veer off the street towards a theatre,...
I was surprised by Maleficent. I was expecting to be sorely disappointed, given the predictability of mainstream media that leaves us low bars like, 'a single strong female character'! After the...
Making the hop from film to television seems to be increasingly common these days, so it’s no great surprise to see Halle Berry headlining CBS’s latest sci-fi offering, Extant. The show premiered...
With a rise in interest in sweeping historical dramas filled with intrigue, betrayal, amazing frocks, and sensuality, it’s not surprising to see almost every US network vying to produce some...
More than 40 years after Roe v Wade, how is abortion still a taboo subject on television? Most networks dance around it as though they’re afraid the world will collapse if abortion is discussed,...
What if in this age of austerity all the modernist homes of the urban intelligentsia were actually spacecraft? What if these chameleon constructs were housing the agents of bourgeois gentrification?...
