Ever since I grew up in the 80s watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, I have loved watching animation. When done well, there is a dynamic fun and imaginative freedom to animation that even the most CGI-heavy live action cannot reproduce. With the streaming channels there are a lot of animated series floating around (most of them…
Category: Sci-fi
Summer TV 2023
Now that summer has become a legitimate TV season (thanks to streaming), it’s exciting to be able to watch series that I enjoy (along with a few new shows) during a period when everything used to be on hiatus or reruns. The new seasons of Black Mirror and the debut of Marvel’s Secret Invasion really…
The Flash – Movie Review
The box office is a pretty tough place these days — even for a big-budget superhero action movie. Fans are told more about the machinations of the mega-studios in the background than the actual movies themselves. We hear about 10-year roadmaps, reboots, and the ever-elusive shared cinematic universes. All that static was no help to…
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Movie Review
The 2018 movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a fun, visually-stunning, refreshingly-creative success that left some very large shoes to fill. Not only did this sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, need to impress us with amazing animation, but also needed to continue the meaningful, heartfelt, humorous story that was begun in the first film. I’m…
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3 – Movie Review
Finishing off the Guardians trilogy with trademark fun adventures and hilarious characters, this third volume fits perfectly on top of its MCU sundae. I know that everyone has seen this movie already, but that only gives me room to get a bit spoilery as I discuss what I liked and didn’t like. For those of…
Spring TV 2023 – Apple Edition
I know it’s been a while, but I have been watching stuff even though I haven’t been writing about it all. Colour me surprised when I renewed my Apple TV+ subscription in order to catch the latest and final season of Ted Lasso, only to end up watching several more series (and one documentary film)….
Must-See Winter TV 2023
I am normally the last person to say anything is “must-see”, not because I don’t believe in great TV and movies, but because I am a firm believer in the diversity of tastes and “to each his own”. However, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about TV shows, sadly because I haven’t been super-excited…
Avatar: The Way of Water – Movie Review
Watching the sequel to James Cameron’s ground-breaking animated epic, Avatar, I was looking forward to an expansion of the fictional world of Pandora. In the climax of the first movie, we got a brief glimpse of the other Na’vi people around the planet, seeing tribes apart from the Omaticaya tribe who had been the focus…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Movie Review
Wakanda Forever was both a movie about grief and about war. Two of the biggest topics in human life, but Marvel tackles them within a single movie. After the loss of T’Challa, the Black Panther from the first movie (who apparently died of an unnamed illness — mirroring the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, who…
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