TV Show Reviews and Availability

Fantasy fiction often comments on modern time. It seems the new noir urban fantasy series Carnival Row from Amazon Prime is playing that card. Set in a Victorian world where magical creatures and humans strive to live peaceably side-by-side, the series confronts challenges of immigration, racism, and classicism through the lens of a gothic mystery. […]

Star Trek fans have been a buzz for a while now about the upcoming return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard to the screen in the new series Star Trek: Picard. While the anticipation still has a while to build—it is currently slated to air in early 2020—the show recently made a splash at the 2019 San […]

With great power comes great responsibility, yes. But what happens when corruption and greed overshadow responsibility and the powerful are allowed to run amuck? Such is the question raised in The Boys, a gritty and irreverent black comedy about superheroes out of control and the team trying to stop them, landing on Amazon Prime July […]

In 1994, the romantic comedy that would be the hallmark and launching pad of more than two decades of great British comedies debuted, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The film began a generation of rom-coms by writer Richard Curtis, including Love Actually, Notting Hill, and About Time. Now, Curtis is passing the torch to a […]

Hitting 15 seasons is a landmark for any show. For a dark fantasy thriller that easily veers into over the top camp, it’s epic. In its 11th season, the CW’s Supernatural became the longest-running live-action fantasy series in the U.S. Fans of this beloved series are all-in for anything the creators throw at us, whether […]

The 1981 classic WWII film, Das Boot, is considered one of the greatest German films of all time, and was a landmark submarine movie, standing out from its contemporaries in the genre. The tense thriller, set largely inside a German U-boat, chronicles the dangerous and claustrophobic life at sea, as well as the sailors’ own […]