ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 10 – Guts – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 9 – Doppelkopfel – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 8 – Hair – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 7 – Lips – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 6 – Toenail – 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 play. …
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, …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 5 – A-Borg – 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 …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 4 – One Rib – 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 …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 3 – Amygdala – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 2 – Teeth – 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 AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 1 – Tontoom – 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, …
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 – Episode 606 – Babylon’s Ashes – 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 …
THE EXPANSE – Episode 605 – Why We Fight – 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 …
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 – Episode 604 – Redoubt – 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 …
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 – Episode 603 – Force Projection – 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 …
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 – Episode 602 – Azure Dragon – 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 …
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 – Episode 601 – Strange Dogs – 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 …
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 …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Egwene (Madeleine Madden) and Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) are still traveling with Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her band of nomads. Just as they get within sight of the White …
EVERYTIME A BELL RINGS – directed by Maclain Nelson – (some spoilers) ⁓ Ali Liebert tweeted on 20 November: “spoiler alert! in #EveryTimeABellRings, Nora gets the girl!! Never thought i’d see the day that i’d be playing a lesbian in …
