My Top Ten 2018: David Atwell
2018 was the year of surprises, the year of emotional stakes, the year of superheroes and supervillains. A friend of mine likes to quote Roger Ebert, who said that “movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts,”…
Review| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
If the year of 2018 in film has a theme, that theme is definitely superheroes. Depending on your definition of “superhero,” there have been between seven and fifteen blockbusters in the genre over the last twelve months, with another one…
Review| Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The universe that J.K. Rowling is building in the Fantastic Beasts series is at once fascinating, beautiful, and a terrifying mirror of our own, and The Crimes of Grindelwald turns each of those elements up a notch. It’s Harry Potter…
Review| First Man
Going to space is hard. As last week’s Soyuz rocket failure proves, even a well-proven rocket with a spotless half-century track record can still remind us that getting to space isn’t any easier than it was for Neil Armstrong. It…
News| Netflix Goes to Narnia
On Wednesday morning, The C.S. Lewis Company broke the news: they’d sold television and film rights to Netflix. In a joint announcement later posted by Netflix, they promised that the streaming network, alongside eOne Films, would “develop classic stories from…
Trektember: Season 3 Wrap-Up
Well, that’s it. We did it. Yet again. (Did what? If you missed the entirety of Trektember, click here) Another Trektember in the can; another one-month mission returning to spacedock for an eleven-month refit. But before we get there—in the…
Trektember: Will You Take My Hand? | Star Trek: Discovery
The season finale to the first season of Star Trek: Discovery draws upon the depth of the entire season to deliver a show full of fanservice, callbacks, and worldbuilding in service of a uniquely Star Trek story. Of course, that…
Trektember: The Wolf Inside | Star Trek: Discovery
“Even the light is different…the cosmos has lost its brilliance. And everywhere I turn, there’s fear.” —Michael Burnham Star Trek is, at its core, about identity: identity as a society, identity as a species, identity as an individual. And since…
Trektember: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | Star Trek: Discovery
“We are born afraid, we Kelpiens. It’s how we survive. As such, my whole life, I have never known a moment without fear. The freedom of it…not one moment. Until Pahvo.” —Saru Sometimes it takes a monster’s mouth to express…
Trektember: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad | Star Trek: Discovery
Read enough articles about Star Trek: Discovery, and you’ll start to see a repetitive phrase: “this is the first episode that really felt like Star Trek to me.” We’ve even had a couple of variations on that verbal “time loop”…