Review of Dark Matter (Spoilers Below)

It’s too Dark Matter’s credit that despite being very predictable, it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It’s obscenely fast paced, but it reads well, the characters are compelling, and there’s lots of twists and turns. Unfortunately, if you couldn’t see the entire plot of this novel mapped out by …

Review of The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (spoilers below)

The Light Brigade reads like a decent space opera that’s desperate to be something more. I really wanted to like it, every reviewer I’ve seen compares it to Starship Troopers and the Forever War (the 2 titans of military scifi), but it’s just not in the same class. The main problem is that the actual …

Review of The Expanse (Spoilers below)

The Expanse loves nothing as much as it loves building tension. Seriously, I’ve never watched a show that was this consistent in tone. Every fucking second is spent building up to the next revelation. The shows build and builds, but there’s never any pay off. The revelation is never a revelation, as the actual twist …

Review of Snowpiercer (Netflix) – Spoilers Below

Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly in Snowpiercer | Credit to Netflix Snowpiercer is Netflix’s TV adaption of the 2013 film of the same name, and this show is just really good fun. There’s no better way to describe it. The central premise is that the Earth has been transformed into an uninhabitable frozen wasteland and …

Reviewing the entire Star Trek Franchise one series at a time – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The main cast of Deep Space Nine The triumphant orchestral sounds of Next Generation’s introduction are replaced by a slower, more thoughtful composition and Deep Space Nine makes it clear from the beginning that it’s a different sort of show to its predecessor. Set aboard Deep Space Nine, a space station overlooking the planet Bajor, …

Review of The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed is not just boring, it is barely classifiable as a book. Written in 1974 by Ursula K Le Guin, it has received almost universal acclaim amongst science fiction fans. It won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards upon release and I have yet to find any really negative reviews for it online. This …

Review of Lifeforce

Unlike the Netflix employee who keeps recommending dated Science Fiction Horror films to me, lifeforce is exactly what you’ll be missing by the time you finish this film. Okay, that obvious joke is a little bit unfair. While this is film is so bizarre that watching it makes me feel like I’m the subject in …

Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (spoilers below)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has no soul. I don’t know how or why this has been done, but I finished it in something of a daze. I felt nothing for the characters and even now I struggle to recall much of the film. I actually started this film quite excited. The trailer made it look …

Review of Humanoids from the Deep (spoilers below)

(photo: New world pictures) Netflix, for reasons known only to itself, recommended this film to me. I don’t really watch Horror films so presumably this recommendation was based on my love of… monster driven ecological disaster? Perhaps I’m overthinking this. Humanoids from the Deep follows a group of mutant sea monsters that attack a small …

Reviewing the entire Star Trek Franchise one series at a time – Star Trek: The Next Generation

Between the Original Series, Animated Series, Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, and 13 films there is just over 550 hours (about 23 days) of Star Trek. Therefore, a nationwide lockdown seemed the perfect time to start making my way through it. Star Trek: The Next Generation is good science fiction, but …