As Greenland (2020) opens, families around the world gather in front to their TVs to see the spectacle of pieces from a comet entering the Earth’s atmosphere and landing harmlessly in the ocean. Then structural engineer John Garrity (Gerard Butler) receives a startling government alert telling him to report to a nearby Air Force Base […]
Firefly: Complete Series, Joss Whedon’s short-lived foray into sci-fi television, was (purposely or not) sabotaged by Fox when it finally premiered on network TV. The 14 episodes (that’s counting the movie-length pilot as a single episode) were rearranged by the network brain trust, completely disrupting the carefully constructed narrative that he wove through the episodes […]
Irreverent, outrageous, and strewn with self-aware commentary and dark humor, Deadpool (2016) is as different a comic book superhero movie from the self-serious Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as you’ll find. It is raunchy and gory and features a hero with no compunctions about killing the henchmen sent after him. […]
Gotham, the pre-Batman comic book series that drops us into on the early years of Gotham City police detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and teenage Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) struggling to do right in their corrupt city, isn’t technically part of the interconnected TV DC Comics world that includes Arrow and The Flash—it exists in […]
Serenity (2005) – Joss Whedon’s short-lived TV series Firefly (available on Netflix and Hulu, and reviewed at Stream On Demand here) lasted a mere 14 episodes. Not nearly enough for the fans. So Whedon took it to the big screen and made a lively, humor-laden science fiction western. Nathan Fillion (Castle) is the former rebel soldier […]
