The Review at the End of the Universe
“Kids These Days” & “Beta Test”
The Star Trek universe continues to expand with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy; a show focused on a group of young cadets training to become officers.
Hostages
Five strangers barricade themselves in a hotel room during a suspected terrorist situation in Jim Owen’s Hostages.
Sovereign
A father and son who reject the authority of the state are drawn into a spiral of escalating challenges in Christian Swegal’s Sovereign.
A group of boys compete in a grueling contest where a minimum walking speed must be maintained to stay alive in Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk. Dystopian fiction thrives on the tension between the ordinary and the impossible. The Long Walk takes that tension and distils it into a brutal high concept premise: fifty teenage…
“New Life and New Civilisations”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends its third season with the reemergence of an ancient evil and questions about destiny.
“Terrarium”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds puts Ortegas in a survival situation with an enemy when she is isolated from the Enterprise.
“Four-And-A-Half Vulcans”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds turns some of the characters into Vulcans, creating a series of problems for the crew.
“What Is Starfleet?”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds shifts format to a documentary style exploring Starfleet, its officers and questions what Starfleet is.
Redux Redux
A woman travels through parallel universes, killing variations of her daughter’s murderer in Kevin and Matthew McManus’ Redux Redux.
EIFF 2025 – Brides
Two teenage Muslim girls run away from their lives in London to become Brides of the Islamic state in Nadia Fall’s Brides.
