WILD CARDS – Dial ‘A’ for Alibi – (limited spoilers) ⁓ The episode title comes from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ For Murder“, but the story is largely an homage to the other Hitchcock film released in 1954, “Rear Window“. Max …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 – SPOILERS ⁓ Aileen McClintock (Robyn Scott) and her husband Gordon (Richard Wright-Firth) have traveled from Scotland to visit Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy). Gordon thinks Maria killed …
WILD CARDS – The Lorne Identity – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It is Cole’s late brother Daniel’s birthday. Max (Vanessa Morgan) comes into the office without being summoned because, she says: “They’re setting up wifi in my condo, which interrupted my …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 2 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) is having breakfast with his cat when a woman he doesn’t know (Naomi Simpson) tells him his scuppers need cleaning. He assures her that the boat …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 1 (limited spoilers) ⁓ Max (Vanessa Morgan) and her sidekick Ricky (Fletcher Donovan) were on their way out of town with a 33 million dollar Fabergรฉ Egg until Ricky, in the course of transcribing …
Jana Morrison (Astrid) is Louisa in AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES: SOMETHING NEW. It is the nineteenth film in the series, and Aurora (Skyler Samuels), having just left university, is back in her home town working as a teacher’s assistant in a …
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS – created by David Farr – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is the third film adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel and it’s a good one. The screenplay is intricate and subtle, and is interpreted vividly by three directors: …
JENNY GREEN – Dead Boy Detectives – Briana Cuoco From her first moment onscreen, it is clear that Jenny, a goth butcher who rents a room to Crystal, is essential to everything. When Crystal decides to ask her ex-boyfriend for …
STRANGE EMPIRE – created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik – (SPOILERS) ⁓ In 1869 Captain Slotter (Aaron Poole) and his wife Isabelle (Tattiawana Jones) are trying to run a coal mine near the Alberta/Montana border. Slotter has enough men to mine the …
FROM – Season 3 Episode 10 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Ethan (Simon Webster) worries that he will forget what his late brother Thomas was like. Julie (Hannah Cheramy) says she must tell him something. “When we went to those ruins, …
AULD LANG SYNE – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS โ It is the day before Christmas, and Nell (Mimi Kuzyk), a veteran actor reduced to being props master on a low-budget indie film, is talking things over with …
THE KING TIDE – directed by Christian Sparkes – (some spoilers) โ The opening scenes are full of mood and mystery. On an isolated island off the Newfoundland coast, Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki) has a miscarriage on a stormy night. …
Jodi Balfour (Gladys Witham in all episodes) is psychoanalyst and educator Dorothy Burlingham in FREUD’S LAST SESSION, an adaptation of the play by Mark St. Germain, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Matthew Brown. (The play was based on the …
FROM – episode 306 – (speculative recap)⁓ The ambulance that returned Tabitha to The Town came with an ultrasound device, and Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) is persuaded to allow Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot), to scan for any problems with the pregnancy. …
RED ROVER โ directed by Shane Belcourt โ SPOILERS ⁓ Geologist Damon Pierce (Kristian Bruun) lives in his ex-fiancรฉ’s basement and spends his spare time walking the nearby beach with a metal detector. It is a pleasant-looking beach with surprisingly …
FROM – Season 3 Episode 3 – Mouse Trap – SPOILERS ⁓ Jade (David Alpay), Dale (Cliff Saunders), Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot), Kenny (Ricky He), Roger (Eugene Sampang), and another unnamed Colony House resident (played by Martina Kelade) are on …
FROM – Season 3 Episode 2 – When We Go – SPOILERS ⁓ The episode’s title comes from something Jade (David Alpay) says after he and Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot) finish making Tien Chen Liu’s corpse presentable for viewing. Addressing …
FROM – Season 3 Episode 1 – SPOILERS ⁓ Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno) has awakened in hospital. Dr. Brody (Sharleen Kalayil) tells her she is in Camden, Maine, was found unconscious on the side of a trail outside of town …
WYNONNA EARP: VENGEANCE – (limited spoilers) ⁓ South of Purgatory, on the edge of the Ghost River Triangle, former Sheriff Randy Nedley (Greg Lawson) is ice fishing. He is joined by Mercedes (Dani Kind), who arrives wearing yellow faux snake …
Rachel Nichols (Kiera Cameron*) is Madeleine, eldest daughter of Charles Abernathy (Bob Gunton), and twin sister of C.J. (David Walton) in THE INHERITANCE, a horror thriller directed by Alejandro Bruguรฉs. Charles, a billionaire nearing his 75th birthday, unexpectedly invites his …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Episodes 1.9 and 1.10 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Delphine (Evelyne Brochu) drops by to reassure Kira (Keeley Hawes) and to offer her own philosophy of identity: “It doesn’t matter how you came to be. What matters …
RABID โ a film by Jen and Sylvia Soska โ SPOILERS ⁓ Rose (Laura Vandervoort), her face slightly scarred from the long ago car accident that killed her parents, works for a fashion designer named Gunter (MacKenzie Gray) whose latest …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 8 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Kira (Keeley Hawes) meets Felix (Jordan Gavaris) at his art exhibit and tells him all about the three copies of Eleanor. He tells her what she did might …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS ⁓ Xander (Vincent Tran), displeases his creator Darros by inadvertently allowing Jules (Amanda Fix) to escape. Jules joins him in a “return to the womb” experience with the printer that created …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Episode 104 – SPOILERS ⁓ Emily (Tattiawana Jones) and Tom (Reed Diamond) sit in a car outside the Lee family residence, talking about music. “You can’t compare Celine Dion to Mariah Carey,” says Tom. “They’re totally …
SUCK IT UP โ directed by Jordan Canning โ SPOILERS ⁓ Garrett has been dead a year or so, and Ronnie (Grace Glowicki) and Faye (Erin Margurite Carter) are (ineptly) coping. Ronnie is Garrett’s younger sister and Garrett was her …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS ⁓ Charlie (Zariella Langford) accidentally finds the two handguns that Tina (Eva Everett Irving) keeps under lock and key, and they remind her of recent unpleasant events. Charlie tries to …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS ⁓ When Lucy (Krysten Ritter), who was printed about two years ago and is going through her “terrible twos”, brings her prisoner Jules (Amanda Fix) to Settlement House, she interrupts …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS ⁓ PRELUDE Lucy (Krysten Ritter) wakes up on a leather couch in what appears to be someone’s living room, with two rosy-faced lovebirds chirping in a cage nearby. A woman …
IโLL TAKE YOUR DEAD โ directed by Chad Archibald โ SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …
