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 7 – SPOILERS Brutus (Olivier Renaud) tells Astrid and Lilly about this week’s monster: “Copiosus Liberi is its name and reproduction is its game. Specifically, making thousands of little mini-me’s. …
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 …
KINGSWAY – written and directed by Bruce Sweeney – SPOILERS Matt Horvat (Jeff Gladstone) , who is a Semiotics Professor and has a history of anxiety and depression, tells his therapist (Sara, played by Jennifer McLean) that his life has …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 4 – SPOILERS Camina Drummer (Cara Gee) and her crew board one of the Free Navy‘s supply depots and find it unexpectedly guarded. After a battle to capture the place, there is an intense …
IVORY (Jennifer Cheon Garcia) Van Helsing She was made a vampire by Michaela, who saved her from being burned at the stake by Spanish invaders for refusing to adopt their religion. After five centuries in the Sisterhood, Ivory is turned …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 3 – SPOILERS The Free Navy has ceded control of Ceres to UN forces, but left the place with food for only three weeks, forcing the UN to come up with a way to …
WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS It opens with a flashback to three thousand years ago and an argument between Lews Theron Telamon (Alexander Karim) and Latra Posae Decume (Katie Brayben), the Amyrlin Seat. Telamon is …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 2 – SPOILERS It turns out that the featherless bird found by Cara on Laconia last episode was poisoned by the piece of ration bar she fed it. Her father explains that that native …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS The episode’s best scene is at its very beginning, when we see the last minutes of the life of Tigraine Mantear (Magdalena Šittová). The woman manages to defeat a …
THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 1 – SPOILERS In a circular forest clearing, a girl named Clara seems preoccupied with the local plant and animal life, which includes a jumping fish without fins called a gruncher, a slinkervine (fairly …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) has been on a secret mission for the Amyrlin Seat (Siuan Sanche, played by Sophie Okonedo) to locate the Dragon Reborn. (Siuan and Moiraine were the …
