Review by C.J. Bunce In her most prolific year–at age 13–actress Jodie Foster made five movies, including two big hits, the Disney comedy Freaky Friday, and Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver. Along with two forgotten films, Alan Parker’s kid musical Bugsy Malone and the Richard Harris drama Echoes of a Summer, the fifth Foster film from […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Your next creepy movie for fall is waiting for you now on Netflix. It’s director Stacie Passon′s 2018 adaptation of award-winning author Shirley Jackson′s 1962 mystery thriller, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And although it is not technically a story about one of our favorite horror tropes, creepy little […]
Review by C.J. Bunce Plumes are cool. I wear a plume now. This week the Doctor and friends turn up at the very event that was the real-life origin point of Doctor Who, the series, and in fact all of science fiction: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s summer at the retreat […]
Review by C.J. Bunce Steeped in the Dungeons & Dragons foundations of R.A. Salvatore′s new novel, the adventure becomes so much a journey of a thousand skirmishes inside the stories of Waterdeep and the Forgotten Realms that the biggest surprise is no D&D branding graces the cover. Although it’s accessible for anyone without reference to […]
Review by C.J. Bunce How often does a television series stay powerfully compelling for the entirety of its run? Most series, especially science fiction series, have a freshman and sophomore season full of bad episodes and clunky storylines. With a fourth season now one for the books, Amazon Studios’ The Man in the High Castle […]
Too bad this one isn’t ready for release in time for Halloween. This is some creepy and disturbing stuff. It’s one of our favorite genres–a Gothic thriller–and we just may have a new competitor for all those movies with creepy little girls. Greta, played by Lauren Cohan (Chuck, Supernatural, The Walking Dead), is hired by an […]
Review by C.J. Bunce The tropes of Steven Spielberg run rampant in the new TV series The Whispers. Its pilot episode premiered Monday night on ABC and it teases enough of those things we love about Spielberg movies–it’s practically an homage to the producer of the series–to prompt us to return for more next week. Network science fiction as a […]
