In “Bride and Doom” (episode 211), Max (Vanessa Morgan) can’t join her father George (Jason Priestley) on the anniversary of his wedding to his late wife. She and Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) are busy trying to solve the murder of a …
ORDINARY GIRL IN A TIARA – directed by Meeshelle Neal – (some spoilers) ⁓ Supernatural forces are never referenced, but this is a fable full of magical things. Caro Cartwright (Katharine King So) is a curator of vintage fashion. She …
LUCY BETTS-TAYLOR – Ludwig – Anna Maxwell Martin An aspiring photographer, Lucy is “still doing endless weddings and bonneted babies”, and has been married for twenty-odd years to DCI James Taylor. When her husband disappears she decides to make the …
KILLJOYS – Episode 101 – Bangarang – SPOILERS ⁓ Johnny Jaqobis (Aaron Ashmore) and Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) are bounty hunters employed by The RAC (Reclamation Apprehension Coalition) an agency independent of all governments which operates throughout the ‘J’ star cluster. …
TROLL 2 – a film by Roar Uthaug – (SPOILERS) ⁓ Andreas Isaksen (Kim Falck) visits Professor Nora Tidemann at her home in Jรถtunheimen. (The mythical home of trolls, Jรถtunheimr, is one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology.) Isaksen …
Avan Jogia (Roman Mercer* in 13 episodes) stars as Oliver in 56 DAYS, an eight-episode series created by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, based on Catherine Ryan Howardโs 2021 novel of the same name. Oliver meets Ciara (Dove Cameron) in …
LOVELAND (aka “Expired”) – a film by Ivan Sen – (SPOILERS) ⁓ In a version of Hong Kong that hasn’t happened yet, a hitman named Jack (Ryan Kwanten) follows a cop into an alleyway and in exchange for a wad …
Alba Baptista (Ava Silva, The Warrior Nun) is Penny in BORDERLINE, a dark comedy set in the mid-1990s which follows Paul Duerson (Ray Nicholson), an obsessively infatuated fan of pop star and actor Sofia (Samara Weaving). Institutionalized after breaking into …
FIELD SKETCHES – a film by Carl Bessai – SPOILERS ⁓ Peter (Vincent Gale) is visited by his daughter Molly (June Laporte) who has just graduated university, and they play a variant of Twenty Questions on the drive from the …
OLIVIA – a film by Felipe Morell – SPOILERS ⁓ At the start, Janis (Sara Mitich) wakes from a dream full of fire and music. On her way downstairs, she stops to look at a photo on the wall (which …
It’s a trippy show based on the comics by Magdalene Visaggio, and all of its adventures might possibly happen entirely inside one character’s head. Twenty-five-year-old dethroned Queen Eldaya of Arriopa (Adriyan Rae) is an itenerant scavenger, a finder of hard-to-get …
Steven Strait (James Holden, captain of the Rocinante) is Dylan in BODY LANGUAGE, which stars Christina Milian as Mariana, Director of Personnel for a major security firm. After her engagement to Nick (Gregg Wayans) is announced, her fiance’s mysterious friend …
LEVELS – a film by Adam Stern – (speculative recap) ⁓ Joe’s smart apartment (voiced by Amanda Tapping) wakes him at 7am. The camera pans across Joe’s bookshelves, and the only conspicuous volume is “Dead Time” by Stephen White, a …
Episode 110 – Rend the Veil – (speculative recap) ⁓ When Blaine Abel (Steven Ogg) was nine years old, Sheriff Cypress (David James Elliott) ran his father out of town for defrauding his followers by faking stigmata on his son’s …
REVIVAL – Episode 109 – Mother of Babylon (limited spoilers) ⁓ Ibrahim (Andy McQueen) has been captured and tied to a chair by Blaine (Steven Ogg), who asks him “What started Revival Day?” Ibrahim doesn’t know, and is terrified of …
REVIVAL – Episode 108 – A Rose and a Thorn – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Rose Blackdeer (Leenah Robinson) and May Tao (Katherine King So) were in love and planned to run away together. Rose’s father Jesse (Brandon Oakes) didn’t like …
THE SHROUDS – a film by David Cronenberg – (SPOILERS) ⁓ The Shrouds is a study in obsession and possessiveness. It is thematically similar to Lenore, and Annabel Lee, and just the sort of macabre tale Edgar Allen Poe might …
REVIVAL – Episode 107 – Too Many Secrets – (speculative recap) ⁓ The effort of healing Dana’s wounds has left Em (Romy Weltman) near death herself. Ibrahim (Andy McQueen) is surprised to learn that Em is a reviver. He tells …
REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 6 – (speculative recap) ⁓ A flashback shows Patty Cypress (Lara Jean Chorostecki) giving birth to Em in a home water birth. In attendance, along with a midwife, is her teenage daughter Dana (Reese Finlay), …
REVIVAL – Season 1 – Episodes 4 & 5 – (speculative recap) ⁓ A hooded figure removes a thumb drive from Professor Aaron Weimer’s desk, and leaves it for journalist May Tao (Katharine King So) to find. We see him …
REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 3 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Kay (Maia Jae Bastidas) thinks one of Dorothy Check’s sons killed Em (Romy Weltman) because she and Em visited the Checks that night to buy some drugs. While Kay negotiated …
REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 2 – (speculative recap) ⁓ When the Sheriff (David James Elliott) finds Cooper (Hudson Wurster), the boy explains that he was drawn into the woods by a sound. “Do you hear it?”, he asks. “There’s …
PYEWACKET – a film by Adam MacDonald – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This horror thriller puts forward the idea that magical incantations could be keys unlocking little known areas of the human subconscious, and that things summoned from those depths might …
Speculative Recap ⁓ On the night of 18 December in the city of Wasau in (fictional) Mountain Bay County, Wisconsin, Journalist May Tao (Katharine King So) is putting together a piece about locals in unusual jobs, and watches Randy (Graeme …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 10 – SPOILERS ⁓ In a flashback to thirty-five years ago, a seven-year-old Luke (Remy Smith) is awakened by Elvis the Elephant (voiced by Patrick Kwok-Choon). “He turned off the TV an hour ago,” says …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 9 (speculative recap) ⁓ Rita Weiss (Alison Brooks) asks Luke (Tim Rozon) for help with a pressing problem. The father of her client Stephanie Clifford (Sarah Cleveland) is unable to inherit the house she wants …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 8 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Susan (Sarah Levy) has a dream in which she literally drives Tag (Alex Ozerov-Meyer) to his grave. Before Tag leaves the car he warns Susan to be careful because the …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 7 – SPOILERS ⁓ Things begin with the haunting of Claire Vendel (Alex Paxton-Beesley) and her husband Tim {Russell Sams). Over a span of three years, they have moved in and out of twenty-two homes, …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 6 (speculative recap) ⁓ On his way to a client’s cottage, Luke (Tim Rozon) becomes inexplicably lost. He stops at a small shack on a narrow wooded lane, and his is car keys disappear. Harry …
SURREALESTATE – Season 3 Episode 5 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Jan Lowry (Kirsten Comerford) and her husband Paul (Sergio Di Zio) are selling their house. Paul is not happy, and suggests selling is “like leaving a painting unfinished”. Jan doesn’t …
