SIMULANT – directed by April Mullen – written by Ryan Christopher Churchill – SPOILERS ⁓ This is the story of Faye (Jordana Brewster) and Evan (Robbie Amell), a wealthy married couple who purchased simulant replicas of themselves as a means …
Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Léa Mysius – SPOILERS Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramé) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from which …
speculative recap – SPOILERS Sarah Meyers (Avery Konrad) was brought back to town by the same Farway Tree that saved the life of Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perrineau). Nearly everyone but Boyd and the empathic new arrival Elgin (Nathan D Simmons), …
VOLITION – directed by Tony Dean Smith – SPOILERS ⁓ “Everything you see has played out before, you just don’t know it. Most people live out their lives only experiencing the present moment – that fleeting snapshot that’s here for …
FROM – Season 2 Episode 2 – (SPOILERS) In the diner after dark, Mari (Kaelen Ohm) has words with Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot). “We were supposed to have lunch,” she says accusingly. “I was on my way to meet you. …
FROM – Season 2 Episode 1 – SPOILERS The bus had already arrived at the end of Season One, and the jukebox in the diner was playing a Neil Young song. This story begins before that because inside the diner, …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Titled “Ghost Child”, this is the closest thing to a musical episode in the series, and was (somehow) not covered by Area 33 when it originally aired in August 2021. Some ghosts …
Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp in 49 episodes) is Emma’s friend Wendy in Sean Garrity‘s romantic comedy, THE END OF SEX. After sending their children to winter camp, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh (Jonas Chernick) try to recharge their relationship by …
INFINITY POOL – a film by Brandon Cronenberg – SPOILERS ⁓ Em Foster (Cleopatra Coleman) and her husband James (Alexander Skarsgård) awaken on a clear morning, and Em is puzzled. “You said you can’t feed yourself with white sand brain …
WOLF PACK – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Several young wolves get in trouble. Everett (Armani Jackson) is detained for a 72- hour psychiatric evaluation; Blake (Bella Shepard) and her brother Danny (Nevada Jose) are placed in the custody …
UNWELCOME – directed by Jon Wright – (limited spoilers) An unassumingly complex story containing some things that are never completely explained and other things that are only hinted at, UNWELCOME begins with a series of apparent coincidences: Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) …
These five actors appear in Season Two: Episode 2.2: Truth in Advertising Actor: Natalie Charles Character: Ileana Davis Charles was the Leithian shopkeeper in “The Harvest” (Episode 1.3 of KILLJOYS). The shopkeeper has an interesting encounter with Pawter (Sarah Power), …
WOLF PACK – Season 1 – Episodes 6 & 7 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After doing mushrooms at Tia’s party, Baron (Chase Liefeld) transforms into a wolf-like humanoid. Kristin Ramsey (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the first to find him in …
THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 4 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Angus (Ryan Adams) discovers that the crystalline substance that dissolved Brice’s glove in Episode Two is something odd. “Whatever hit us is made of a completely unknown element,” he …
(limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after …
THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Self-appointed Acting Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) is caught poking around the storage closet where Malcolm Perry (Chris Leask) was murdered. This makes Head of Security Felix Strickland (Pavle Jerinić) suspicious, …
SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers) In the town of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, on the east side of Cumberland Sound, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide …
THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS One hundred years in the future and five years into a voyage to Proxima B, Lieutenant Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) wakes from cryosleep on the colony ship Ark One because a …
WOLF PACK – Episode 101 – From a Spark to a Flame – SPOILERS ⁓ For personal reasons, high school student Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) insists on being without a phone, or a computer, or email. When a forest fire …
DOOR MOUSE – A film by Avan Jogia – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After a night of prophetic nightmares, Mouse (Hayley Law), wakes and silently narrates the start of the next issue of her monthly horror porn comic. Titled “Whoreific“, the …
LE CODE – Season One – Episodes 1 & 2 – (limited spoilers) In the opening scene, Corporate lawyer Idriss Toma is held at gunpoint in his Paris office by Carl Roussell (Stéphane Blancafort). Toma has just won acquittal for …
VESPER – a film by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper – (limited spoilers) We first see her searching for root vegetables in the mud, but that is not her primary occupation. A year after her mother disappeared, thirteen-year-old Vesper (Raffiella …
BELLA SWAY – Moonhaven – Emma MacDonald Bella is a pilot shuttling cargo and people between Earth (where human civilization is in its death throes) and the Moon, specifically a 1300 square kilometer colony called Moonhaven, a multi-generational think tank …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS The three lawyers at Svensson and Associates are quite different from one another. Abigail (Jewel Staite) is ruthless and borderline unethical in advocating for her clients. Harry Svensson (Victor Garber) is …
TROLL – directed by Roar Uthaug – (limited spoilers) Near Hjerkinn in Norway, workers tunnel through the Dovre mountains to build an extension to the Nordland Railway, which currently ends at Trondheim some 165 kilometers to the north. After explosives …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS The birthdays of Lucy’s deceased mom Monique and Nina the Receptionist (Kelli Ogmundson) very nearly coincide. Nina’s dad Bryan (Patrick Gilmmore) gives his (almost) twenty-two-year-old daughter a DNA kit. “Here’s hoping …
ASHGROVE – directed by Jeremy LaLonde – SPOILERS It is a tale of two couples. Jennifer Ashgrove (Amanda Brugel), a scientist tasked with solving the mysteries of a worldwide plague, is married to Jason Ashgrove (Jonas Chernick), a writer who …
QUEENS OF MYSTERY – created by Julian Unthank – (minor spoilers) Matilda Stone, played by Olivia Vinall in Season One and by Florence Hall in Season Two, was born circa 1991. Her mother, Eleanor (Jemma Amos) disappeared when Matilda was …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Last episode, Daniel (Zach Smadu) asked Harry (Victor Garber) to make him a partner in the firm, and Harry declined. Also, Abby (Jewel Staite) saw Lucy (Genelle Williams) kissing someone other …
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE – a film by David Cronenberg – SPOILERS Not nearly as gory as, for instance, Guillermo del Toro’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, this story might be an attempt by Cronenberg to envision the impact of his work …
