The Binge: The Mandalorian S1
Here is the future of Star Wars, one not mired in the narrow threads of the movies’ mythology, but a story that acknowledges that there is a whole big complicated wonderful galaxy to explore.
Firefly
Prospect movie review: frontier sci-fi with a working-class vibe
Smart, gritty-stylish indie science fiction that is actually about ideas, and about building a future world that is authentic and lived-in. It has a really memorable teen-girl protagonist, too, who is badass but still a real kid.
Scorched Earth movie review: there’s still room for feminism at the end of the world
Gina Carano roams a mild yet tedious postapocalyptic wasteland as a bounty hunter, and either you are here for this lady badass of our feminazi dreams, or you are not.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure movie review: cute boys at the end of the world
The Auto-Tuned boy-band version of the apocalypse. You will forgive that every plot point that isn’t a cliché is in fact a plot hole because the hero is so dreamy and impossibly perfect, right?
Index Zero movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Smart, thoughtful science fiction that’s about ideas, not spectacle, with an extra kick of cautionary-tale warning in light of current events.
Doctor Who blogging: “The Caretaker”
So this is my life now. Even Doctor Who has abandoned me. Forget escapism: there’s no escapism anymore. The escapism is happening over there, offscreen…
The Muppets review: are we not men? we are weirdoes
What is a Muppet? Is it something one is born? Is it something one chooses? Is it a state of mind? Is it a lifestyle?
Veronica Mars trailer: will this have anything for non-fans?
This trailer looks pretty generic-20something-comedy. It looks — perhaps unsurprisingly — like an for a TV show.
why reader Jay just doubled his monthly subscription from $5 to $10
Because, Jays says: “I used to check Rotten Tomatoes but now I just check FlickFilosopher.com!”
London photo of the day: the Trocadero, a wretched hive of scum and villainy
I can almost hear Mal Reynolds saying to Zoe, “I reckon we best not linger.”
