After her father is killed in a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution, a young Chinese scientist makes a decision that ripples down through history. We catch up with the story present day, where a group of friends, physicists, realize that an alien invasion is imminent. I read the book and the physics takes over …
Our story takes place two hundred years after a nuclear holocaust in a 1950s reality that isn’t quite our reality. A naïve young vault dweller, Lucy, leaves her safe underground shelter to explore the wasteland that used to be Los Angeles, looking for her father. A young soldier, Maximus, uses a steel suit to become …
Best friends Dr Sleech and Dr Klak navigate relationships (good, bad, and really bad), anxiety-eating parasites, time loops and all kinds of other intergalactic maladies in this animated comedy. Not going to say that eating an edible first might increase the enjoyment, but NOT NOT going to say that either.
Based on the excellent Hugh Howey novel, Wool, a subterranean city is carved deep into the earth. No one knows why they are there, but they believe that outside is a poisonous wasteland. Anyone who says that they want to go out is put in a suit and sent out the door, where they appear …
In four different times (Victorian, WWII, Present Day, Future) the same body appears in a London alley. Detectives in each time period investigate. As viewers, we can see the threads that link the mysteries, but the detectives have a harder time figuring out what is going on. It was interesting and fun while it lasted, …
This Star Trek show has the Enterprise with Captain Christopher Pike in command. Spock and Nurse Chapel are there and aficionados will recognize Pike’s First Officer, Number One. Much better than Discovery, this series is more episodic and reminiscent of TOS. Good nostalgic show, a definitely different take on Spock. I had to decide that …
This show has every batshit crazy thing anyone could think of – motorcycle chases, Excalibur, doughnuts, Jesus, AI that basically runs the world, a quest for the Holy Grail, Margo Martindale . . . whatever you can imagine – it’s probably in here. Funny and exciting, this show follows a nun in her fight against …
At first I thought, “not another zombie show,” but this one is different. Twenty years after a pandemic that turns the infected into zombie-like creatures, smuggler Joel is given the task of delivering teenage Ellie (who is immune to the infection) to people who may be able to use her immunity to devise a cure …
Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars movie – a Star Wars movie for grown-ups that shows how a scrappy group of rebels, led by the rebel operative Cassian Andor, stole the plans for the Death Star (which kicks of A New Hope). This gritty series follows Andor before he was a rebel and tells …
After the events of The Suicide Squad (great movie), Peacemaker is recruited to join a group of off-the-books spies investigating nefarious goings on. It’s a comedy, but wasn’t quite as funny as I thought it would be, especially given the very funny dance sequence opening credits. Deals with what is acceptable in the fight against …