Amy Richau reviews the third episode of Halt and Catch Fire season two… ‘The Way In’ is a fitting title to Halt and Catch Fire’s third episode as several characters were maneuvering to find new places in their work and personal lives. Gordon’s triumph in last episode (if you can call fixing a bug a […]
Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘New Coke’
Amy Richau reviews the second episode of Halt and Catch Fire season two… In the second episode of Halt and Catch Fire, ‘New Coke’ Gordon’s storyline starts to intersect with Mutiny’s (beyond his marriage to Donna) while Joe finds himself trapped in the basement in a new job. Was anyone really surprised to find out […]
Halt and Catch Fire – Season 2 Episode 1 ‘SETI’ Review
Amy Richau reviews the season two premiere of Halt and Catch Fire… The second season of AMC’s retro tech drama Halt and Catch Fire jumps forward 20 months and throws the main characters in different and sometimes surprising directions. However it’s not clear from the first episode where the series is actually going and if […]
Movie Review – The Supreme Price (2014)
The Supreme Price, 2014. Directed by Joanna Lipper SYNOPSIS: Documentary about the struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Nigeria. It’s easy to reduce a country into the one thing you have heard about it on the news. Ethiopia – famine. Somalia – pirates. Liberia – Ebola. Nigeria – kidnapped school girls. Joanna Lipper’s documentary The […]
Agent Carter Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Snafu’
Amy Richau reviews the seventh episode of Agent Carter… This week’s episode of Agent Carter, “Snafu”, was a bit of a bust for me until the last 10 minutes. While there were a lot of things going on in the episode, I felt that the show was going through the motions more than truly entertaining […]
Agent Carter Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘A Sin to Err’
Amy Richau reviews the sixth episode of Agent Carter… There has a been a lot of build-up and character development up to this point in Marvel’s Agent Carter. Some of it has been interesting, other parts have been a bit boring. But there’s nothing boring about the most recent episode of Agent Carter “A Sin […]
Agent Carter Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Blitzkrieg Button’
Amy Richau reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter… The fourth outing of Marvel’s Agent Carter is one of the series’ busiest episodes yet. It’s also the most entertaining episode so far. Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) makes a lengthy appearance in The Blitzkrieg Button, as he is desperate to get one of his inventions out […]
Robert Kinoshita, Robot Creator for ‘Lost in Space’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ Dies at 100
The science fiction world has lost a great artist. Robert Kinoshita, who worked as production designer and art director in film and television for decades, has passed away. There are many people who would be hard pressed to name any of the actors from the 1960’s sci-fi TV cult darling Lost in Space or the […]
Agent Carter Season 1 Episode 3 Review – “Time and Tide”
Amy Richau reviews episode three of Marvel’s Agent Carter… The third episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter bounced back quite nicely from the slight disappointment of the second episode in the series. This is in large part because the episode, “Time and Tide”, focuses on Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Howard Stark’s “butler” Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy). […]
China blocks Agent Carter episodes
If you’re in China and were hoping to see an episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter, you are out of luck. Variety reported that China’s media regulator, the State General Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) has recently blocked both Agent Carter and the series Empire from streaming in China. One of SAPPRFT’s recent […]