You know the slogan: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”? Now imagine an even more exclusive adult playground, where for a measly fortune you can indulge every appetite or every sin imaginable. This playground is set in a vast park, mirroring the Wild West, where men can be men and women can be… virgins …
Using a curious, sometimes wobbly, sometimes fascinatingly cool mix of fiction and documentary, National Geographic’s series Mars presents a space drama supported by the historical science that made it all possible. But this history, as presented in the show, is actually the present… and the examples and interviews shown are real people doing real things… …
For those who have lived in a cave, Doctor Who is the (VERY) longing running (50 years) British sci-fi show about a time-and-space travelling doctor that thought of a very clever trick to lend to its longevity: If the lead actor wants to move on, or the show wants to re-cast him, why, it doesn’t …
The Day of the Doctor is the story of a painting with two titles: “No More” and “Gallifrey Falls.” We meet the War Doctor (John Hurt) – the incarnation of the Doctor responsible for the destruction of Gallifrey, and the end of the Time War – on the eve of the fall of Gallifrey, when …
Torchwood: Children of Earth is technically season three of the BBC sci-fi television series. But coming from the perspective of one who watched it “cold” (with no context of having watched the show before), I can say that it is intriguing and gripping enough to be a totally watchable stand-alone five-hour mini-series. Torchwood is a …
When Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), a rebellious twenty-something on the run, witnesses a suicide by train, her life is turned upside down. Not only did someone kill herself right in front of Sarah, the woman in question happened to look exactly like her. Seeing an opportunity to turn her life around, Sarah assumes the identity …
We are used to outcasts gaining superpowers through freak accidents. Usually they gain powers that can be used for good… you know, fighting crime, holding bridges together, etc. But in a fun twist on the tried and true genre, Misfits gives us five truly scrappy characters that suddenly find themselves with curious abilities that actually make …