I broke a lot of my own preferred viewing rules to watch season 3 of Picard. I had not watched season 1 or 2 of this show. While I was familiar with The Next Generation characters and had seen a handful of episodes, I knew far less about TNG than
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has a lot working against it. It’s the seventh(!) movie in a franchise, a number when many other franchises have long since started to overstay their welcome. It’s a long movie too, clocking in at almost three hours. And it isn’t even disguising
We’re now more than halfway through summer movie season, and by this point, I’ve watched a lot of films. I feel like I’ve made a trip to the theater at least once a week, and blockbuster seasons feels — at least on the surface — the most normal it’s been
Doctor Who: Rosa (1 episode, s11e03, 2018) A powerful historical story. Montgomery, Alabama – 1943: A seamstress named Rosa Parks boards a bus on her way home from work. She pays the fee and heads to the back where “colored people” are forced to sit. The driver tells her that
Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument (1 episode, s11e02, 2018) A new family looking for an old friend. Floating in the vacuum of deep space, the terror sets in as Ryan loses consciousness. A spacecraft arrives and the next thing that he knows is waking up in a pod with Graham
To say that there is drama surrounding The Flash would be something of an understatement — and this applies both on-screen and off. There’s plenty of drama within the film itself, as superhero speedster the Flash (a.k.a. Barry Allen figures out how to run fast enough to travel back in
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (1 episode, s11e01, 2018) These new teeth are definitely weird. Ryan Sinclair records a YouTube video and decides to talk about the greatest woman he ever met. He recounts trying to ride a bicycle with his grandmother Grace and her husband Graham
Doctor Who Series Ten and Twelfth Doctor Summary Peter Capaldi’s final run was nearly on par with his last set. This group of stories kept up with Series Nine‘s continuing mission to analyze the human condition in the science fiction tradition. Series Ten focused less on vengeance but kept a
As much as I loved Avengers: Infinity War and was blown away by how epic it was, my favorite movie back in 2018 was actually Into the Spider-Verse. The trailers caught my attention, and when I went to see it in theaters, I fell absolutely in love with every aspect
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (1 episode, Christmas Special, 2017) The (other) two Doctors. 709 episodes ago, the First Doctor faced the Cybermen. After the threat was over, the Doctor walked through the snow storms of the South Pole to his TARDIS. There he found someone claiming to be
I love Disney. The very first movie I saw in theaters was the animated Aladdin. My daughter and I regularly listen to (and dance along with) a Disney playlist on Spotify. I carry a Moana backpack/purse with me everywhere I go. And yes, I’m the type of person who gets
Doctor Who: World Enough and Time Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls (2 episodes, s10e11-12, 2017) Powerful, surprising, and heartbreaking: A Doctor Who triple threat. World Enough and Time Upon a snowy landscape, the Doctor stumbles from the TARDIS and repeats the word “no” as he begins to regenerate. He falls
