PREMONITIONS – the first three episodes – (limited spoilers) It is 2016, and Clara (Pascale Bussières), the clairvoyant matriarch of the Jakob family is playing poker, which is how she makes her living. Silently, and to no one in particular, …
THE BLAZING WORLD – a film by Carlson Young – SPOILERS Two decades ago, on a summer’s day in the deep south, Young Margaret Winter endures complementary traumas. She and her identical twin sister Elizabeth are near the pool and …
Marci T House (Major Stoker in “Seen You“) was nominated for Best Supporting Performance in a Dramatic Series (Female) for the TRIBAL episode “It’s All in Your Headdress“, in which Chief of Tribal Police Sam Woodburn (Jessica Matten) and her …
MAYDAY – a film by Karen Cinorre – SPOILERS This feminist fable is set in the psyche of Anastasia (Grace Van Patten), and as the story begins we find Ana waking up after a friend (Dimitri, played by Théodore Pellerin) …
L’ART DU CRIME – created by Angèle Herry-Leclerc & Pierre-Yves Mora Season Five of the adventures of Parisian art crime investigators Florence Chassange (Eléonore Bernheim) and Police Captain Verlay (Nicolas Gob) has been released, and its first story, Un coeur …
A speculative recap – SPOILERS The opening scene might be a short film unto itself, and if it does not pique your interest, stop watching, because you just won’t get it. Alice Barone (Arianna Becheroni) sits in a bar in …
THE EVIL TWIN – directed by Max McGuire – SPOILERS ⁓ The twin in the title (the evil one) is Charlotte (Emily Piggford), and she lives somewhere in upstate New York in a house purchased by her former lover Trevor …
OUTER RANGE – created by Brian Watkins – Season One – SPOILERS Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) kicks things off with a dramatic aside: “You know anything about a Greek god called Chronos?” he asks. “He carried a sickle. He used …
Speculative Recap – SPOILERS Ethan (Simon Webster) wakes up in Episode 2 after having part of a chair removed from his leg. “I saw the Lake of Tears,” he tells his dad. “It was a drawing on the wall. There …
ANYTHING FOR JACKSON – directed by Justin G Dyck – SPOILERS Shannon Becker (Konstantina Mantelos) is surprised and dismayed when Dr. Walsh (Julian Richings) tells her she’s pregnant, but Walsh is very pleased and even sheds a tear over the …
KICKING BLOOD – a film by Blaine Thurier – SPOILERS Birthdays don’t mean much to immortals, but Anna (Alanna Bale), a vampire of unspecified age, finds herself confronted with a birthday cake, complete with baroque icing and a single candle. …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS At least two Buffy parallels can be identified easily. Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) is not named class protector, but she is crowned prom queen, and when it becomes …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS The new monster in town is a Castorlux (Castor + Pollux). It appears initially in a “blank body” that looks like a grey mannequin, and mimics the …
WOMAN IN CAR (Femme. Voiture.) – a film by Vanya Rose – SPOILERS Vanya Rose takes the characters from Edith Wharton’s THE REEF and inserts them into an alternate universe where their primary motivations remain the same, but causality is …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS All those involved with Astrid and Lilly’s monster hunting (except for Val) find themselves in the school library on a Saturday afternoon. Most are there for six …
A GRAND ROMANTIC GESTURE – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS What if Romeo and Juliet had met, not in their early teens, but much later in life? After uncomfortably watching his girlfriend play Juliet, director Dylan (Gregory Calderone) …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 – Episode 6 – SPOILERS Candace (Julia Doyle) has been told by her mother that unless she gets an A+ in Biology, she will have to drop out of the school …
SHE NEVER DIED – Directed by Audrey Cummings – Written by Jason Krawczyk – SPOILERS She (Olunike Adeliyi) is immortal, but not a vampire although she does manage to impale someone in the course of things. She eats people, but …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS A Memoragatu (Jana Gillis) comes through the portal and makes several people relive the worst moments of their childhood. The beast has very long fingernails, and also …
FROM – Season 1 Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS In an unnamed small, probably American town, Sheriff Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau), signals the approach of sunset by ringing a bell as he walks down the main (and possibly only) …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS We learn a lot about science teacher Frank Frick (Colin Furlong). His favourite hobbies are dessert bars, finding interesting Korean food, and improv. His significant other is …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS Brutus (Olivier Renaud) decides to help Astrid and Lilly conquer their fears with tactics likely borrowed from THE PINK PANTHER‘s Cato (but instead of randomly attacking, he …
BUSINESS ETHICS – directed by Nick Wernham, written by Richard Wernham – SPOILERS The story begins in a lecture hall where Professor Wrightway (Lance Reddick) is holding forth on the topic of ethics, and one of his students, Zachery Cranston …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Astrid’s exuberance over successfully dispatching last episode’s monster gets the better of her. She screams her happiness to the heavens and a rift opens up above the …
SEE FOR ME – directed by Randall Okita – SPOILERS ⁓ The story is part WAIT UNTIL DARK and part PANIC ROOM. (Davenport’s performance immediately brings Meg Altman to mind.) It is fast-paced with plenty of gunplay and no shortage …
ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) are high school students whose unusual hobby is spying on their classmates after school. Their hero is Olivia Benson, Mariska …
DONKEYHEAD – a film by Agam Darshi – SPOILERS A glimpse of a Salvation Army Santa tells us it’s December. Mona Ghumun (Agam Darshi) is caring for her father (Marvin Ishmael) who has cancer, something she has been doing for …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Cara (Emma Ho) brings the newly resurrected and repaired Xan (Ian Ho) back home, only to find that her parents are less than pleased with his return. Her father (Gary, played …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Camina Drummer (Cara Gee) gets the best lines. Last episode she told Inaros: “Live shamed, and die empty.” This time she tells Chrisjen Avasarala: “A century of oppression made Marco Inaros …
