I keep saying that there’s so much TV I want to watch that I can’t keep up, but never has that been more true than this winter. Here’s a rundown of 15 new and returning shows that just kicked off in the last month or so. I have to be brief in my reviews of…
Tag: Star Trek
10 Favourite TV Shows of the Decade
This past 10 years has seen a lot of change on TV. We barely still call it “TV” because it’s mostly watched via internet streaming, and on-demand. This age of “peak TV” has brought some big names (and big budgets) to the small screen, and we get to enjoy the fruits. Now that the 2010s…
Winter TV 2019 – Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
Finally, on to my favourite categories of TV: sci-fi/fantasy dramas. I love how shows can really build a world and a universe; and really open up the experience of these kinds of imaginative characters and adventures in a way that movies just cannot do. I also love how streaming TV has given a channel for…
Fall TV 2017 – New Shows
After a pretty unexciting summer movie season, it would have been nice to come home to some exciting new shows this fall. Alas, so far someĀ aren’t too promising despite a strong pedigree, and others are downright terrible. Good thing there are still a number of returning shows to keep us satisfied (I’ll get to those…
What I watched on TV this summer
Now that the summer is ending, and the fall tv season is around the corner, I wanted to look back at what I watched over the holidays. Though I technically watched all these shows on my TV, none of them were actually broadcast over the summer. The shows I enjoyed (The Night Manager, Black-ish, Star…
Star Trek Beyond – Movie Review
I guess it says something that a die-hard Star Trek fan like myself took so long to see Star Trek Beyond. (Why did they call it that, anyway? The title makes it seem like the Enterprise crew is going to travel outside the galaxy or something, rather than stay in the nebula-around-the-corner.) This is…
40 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films for 2013 (part 1)
As I mentioned previously, 2013 is chock full of sci-fi and fantasy movies. Many of last year’s trends are continuing, including fairy tale retelling or reinventions, vampires and supernatural romance, those ubiquitous super-hero movies, and even a new category in the mix: the scorched Earth movie. There are many many 2013 movie lists that you…
2009 Hits and Misses: Movies
I probably say the same thing every year. Despite the fact that I see 30+ movies in the theatre (which is only 2.5 movies per month, so not really that much), they continue to disappoint me. Many of the ones I intended to see got such mediocre reviews that I decided not to go (I’m…
Star Trek – Movie Review
I remember when I first heard rumours that this movie was going to be about young Kirk and young Spock. The idea was as horrifying to me as one of those space insects that bad guys put into someone’s ear to get information from them (there’s one in this movie). Star Trek characters going through…
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