“Maps and Legends” – Star Trek: Picard S1E02

February 5, 20201

Dr. Moritz Benayoun: You really want to go back out into the cold…knowing… Jean-Luc Picard: More than ever, knowing. —“Maps…

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Re:View| Flash Gordon: 40th Anniversary

January 29, 20200

“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here.…

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Review| Little Women (2019)

January 28, 20200

There are a shocking number of retellings of the classic story Little Women, so if someone was going to create…

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“Remembrance” – Star Trek: Picard S1E01

January 27, 20202

You must look inside, deeply and honestly. Have you ever considered the possibility that you are something lovingly and deliberately…

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Review| Color Out of Space (2020)

January 27, 20200

I have written elsewhere about the troubles that surround the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft and the shadow his oeuvre casts…

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My Top Ten 2019: Fizz

January 22, 20200

I feel all end-of-the-year lists have to be prefaced. “What about this film?” “How could you place this type of…

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Wow Signal: Finding Hope in the Stars

January 21, 20201

The old joke around the search for alien life goes, “‘is there intelligent life out there?’ I don’t even know…

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Review| Bad Boys For Life

January 21, 20200

Michael Bay took a backseat approach to the newest installment of the Bad Boys franchise—a franchise that was significant for…

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