
TV: For All Mankind (Season 3)
For All Mankind set a tough act to follow with its breathtaking first season, but even now, growing more…
August 15, 2022For All Mankind set a tough act to follow with its breathtaking first season, but even now, growing more…
August 15, 2022The previous novels in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy played deft tricks with narrative, alternating viewpoints in clever, deceptive…
August 5, 2022In the mid-2010s – “the Teens,” the “Tennies,” are we calling that decade anything yet? – I went through…
July 18, 2022It usually pays off to follow director Denis Villeneuve wherever he goes, so how about to the planet Arrakis?…
July 4, 2022There are no perfect films, but damn does Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ever come close. Bringing uniquely…
June 12, 2022Underwhelming outings aren’t uncommon in the MCU these days, but at least Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) delivers something…
June 7, 2022There are some writers who can gather disparate, seemingly incongruous influences and combine them unpredictably into something truly memorable.…
June 7, 2022George Lucas’s directorial debut THX 1138 (1971) made a negligble impression on me when I saw it in my…
May 30, 2022I have a feeling certain readers will dismiss Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House (2022) based on the unique circumstances…
May 1, 2022When I reviewed the first, brilliant season of Russian Doll at Lightspeed, I must have had a premonition when…
April 26, 2022When it comes to “big idea” specfic, Hannu Rajaniemi is one of the best in the business. In his…
April 17, 2022Every writer probably comes across a show or four they imagine they should have written: a series that speaks…
April 10, 2022Say what you will about Free Guy (2021), it’s certainly specific. Indeed, part of the fun is imagining how…
April 4, 2022A sequel series, to a movie I didn’t see, set in a comic book universe I’ve never cared about?…
March 20, 2022In retrospect, Search Party was bound to lose its balance rather than stick the landing; what else would you…
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