Red Lights (review)
This ridiculous flick wants to have its pseudoscience cake and eat it too…
X-Files
question of the day: What is the greatest aspect of Fox’s legacy, 25 years in?
The X-Files? In Living Color? The Simpsons? Firefly? Something else?
Sherlock: Series 1 (review)
The second series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s brilliant, brilliant Sherlock is about to start tomorrow, and so my hand is forced: I must finally write about the first series…
sign of the apocalypse No 1: the threatening Courtney Stodden/Doug Hutchinson reality show
I have been avoiding this whole Courtney Stodden/Doug Hutchinson thing — and when I say avoiding, I mean “curling into a mental fetal ball and mentally projecting myself into a saner parallel universe as a psychological defense mechanism” — but I can no longer do so.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Day of the Moon”
I’m really coming to hate Steven Moffat — and by “hate” I mean love, of course — for being such a sneakier, teasinger bastard with each passing week. I want to say that this episode opens up more questions than it answers… except that I’m not sure it answers any questions at all!
question of the day: Is it a good idea for TV and film writers to incorporate fan input into their projects?
Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have said that they plan to heed some suggestions from fans as they write the sequels. Oh, dear. I’m not sure how wise this is…
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
trailer break: ‘Paul’
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost together again? Hoorah! The alien is a geek, too? Umm, okay. Jason Bateman as Fox Mulder? Hoorah? Anal-probing jokes? Oh, dear.
‘Haven’ debuts on Syfy tonight…
…and I’m sorry to say that it’s a bit of a snooze, judging by the premiere episode, which I had the chance to watch in rough cut. More than a bit of a snooze, actually. FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) travels to the small Maine seaside town of Haven to, she hopes, recapture a … more…
trailer break: ‘Salt’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Now, am I being too much of a conspiracy theorist to wonder if the whole Russian spy ring news story that broke recently and today was suddenly wrapped up in a remarkably civilized and surprisingly secret-prison-free manner could possibly have been planted by Sony Pictures to convince … more…
