Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1 Episode 7

“Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” Star Trek: Discovery dusts off the repeating time loop plot forcing the crew to find a way to save the ship and restore time to its normal linear progression. Time loops are the sort of high concept storytelling that will turn up in pretty much any sci-fi…

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1 Episode 6

“Lethe” Star Trek: Discovery explores the connection between Michael and Sarek during a race against time to rescue him. One of the earliest things this show did was establish that Sarek raised Michael as if she were a Vulcan and that relationship helped define the person she would become. In the second episode it was…

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1 Episode 5

“Choose Your Pain” The crew has to pull together to rescue Captain Lorca after he’s captured by the Klingons in the latest Star Trek: Discovery. Having the Captain be captured by an enemy is a staple of any Star Trek series. The reasons for continually returning to this well of storytelling are obvious. For one…

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1 Episode 4

“The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” Star Trek: Discovery continues to build the mystery around the experimental engine as the War with the Klingons continues to rage. This episode seems to mark a rough format that the show will follow and it’s not dissimilar to a formula followed by many of the…

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1 Episode 3

“Context is for Kings” Star Trek: Discovery enjoys something of a second pilot when Michael Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery; a mysterious scientific vessel acting as a testbed for experimental technology and top secret projects. The events of the previous episode were about as definitive as it could get for Michael Burnham. In…

A Cure for Wellness

A young executive is sent to a “wellness centre” for the super rich to retrieve the CEO of the company he works to clear up accounting regularities but he soon finds that the facility isn’t what it seems in Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness. The best way to describe this film is “weird” which…

The Infiltrator

Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator tells the true story Robert Mazur; a man who went undercover to uncover large scale drug and money laundering operations. Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur and his performance can’t be described as anything but magnetic. He nails every necessary beat throughout and crafts a compelling presence that you can’t help but…

Star Wars Rebels – Season 2 Episode 10

“Legacy” Star Wars Rebels deals with the lingering question of what happened to Ezra’s parents when he has a vision giving him clues to their fate. The fate of Ezra’s parents has been a mystery that has been in the background since the show began. It has heavily informed his character development and created interesting…