Smallville: The Complete Series – Smallville launched in 2001 as a superhero series by way of a Dawson’s Creek-style young adult melodrama: teen angst with a kryptonite boost and moral lessons in a freak-of-the-week serial. Tom Welling looked more like a Tiger Beat cover model than a small town farm boy, but his gentle blue […]
Space Children (1958) is one of the most intriguing science fiction films of the Cold War: part alien invasion thriller and part anti-nuclear message movie, with the children of Earth essentially conscripted by a throbbing disembodied brain from outer space to sabotage a nuclear test. Director Jack Arnold and William Alland collaborated on some of […]
“There’s a powerful group of people out there who are secretly running the world.” The out-of-nowhere cult show turned commercial cable hit series Mr. Robot: Season 1 is a hacker thriller by way of a conspiracy drama and hallucinatory mindgame. Rami Malek, who has given impressive performances in small roles for years, takes the lead […]
Humans: Season 1 is a British remake of a Swedish TV show, a near-future science fiction drama that played in the U.S. on AMC, a channel with some success in near-future drama thanks to The Walking Dead. Humanity is doing just fine in this series and instead of the undead, we’ve created an entire culture […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – J.J. Abrams takes the reins of the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas with what is technically a sequel (Chapter VII: The Force Awakens) but is just as much a course correction, a reboot, and a return to the source. It’s been called a shameless remake of the […]
Torchwood began life as a spin-off of the Russell T. Davies Doctor Who reboot (note the title is an anagram of the original series) for a more adult science fiction audience. Former Doctor Who confederate Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) takes the lead in what begins as a high-energy goof on X-Files featuring a British […]
Whovians rejoice! The 21st century revival of the British TV’s greatest contribution to cult science fiction is streaming once again and Amazon Prime has it. The first eight seasons of Doctor Who (2005-2014) are now available, with season nine to follow later this year. After a 26-year run and seven different actors portraying the good doctor […]
Marvel Comics dominates the superhero world on the big screen but the DC Comics Universe has produced an interesting run of original animated movies that they released direct to disc and digital purchase. This is not the polished animation of theatrical features but it’s a step up from TV animation and these features are adapted […]
Continuum: Season 4 (2015) concludes the science fiction drama from Canadian about time-traveling guerrillas in modern-day Vancouver, one of the better original shows on SyFy of last few years (and one of the only shows shot in Vancouver that doesn’t pretend it’s another city). A mix of time-travel science fiction and urban cop show, stars […]
The truth is out there and Fox is streaming it. They just announced that they will be presenting every episode of the original The X-Files in order, one per day, until the TV reboot debuts on January 24, 2016. That’s 201 episodes in 201 days, starting with the pilot on Tuesday, July 7, streaming for […]
