Science-Fiction

The first major round in the Twisted Metal tournament isn't especially interesting, which, it turns out, is by design.

Killing off major characters is often seen as a pretty cheap way of farming audience engagement.

I get that it’d be a stretch to say the Xenomorphs are the good guys in Alien: Earth, but it’s a possibility we should probably consider. The upside of relocating this franchise to terra firma is that it provides a much broader sample buffet of extraterrestrial entrées.

It’s amazing that there hasn’t been an Alien TV show until now. It seems so obvious.

Breaking out of The Institute has been such a fixed goal for so long that I'd forgotten -- and presumably Luke had, too, or had perhaps never realized in the first place -- that it was only the first step to freedom.

Drivers, start your engines -- the Twisted Metal tournament is officially underway.

Tortured vehicular metaphors being my speciality, I'm happy to say that Twisted Metal pumps the brakes a little here in "LZGTBZY".

Let me just start by saying that I’m not a fan of reviewing half a season either. But if Netflix is going to be adamant...

As much as I despise Netflix’s new approach of releasing new seasons of key IP in several parts, Wednesday Season 2 is a good example of...

Allow me to start with something I neglected to mention in the previous episode, since it becomes important here in Episode 3, "Call of the Woe".

Wednesday Season 2 started as it means to go on, capably proved by Episode 2, which makes it clear that things aren't going to get any simpler as we go.

Students invariably spend the summer holidays getting into mischief, so on that level, at least, Wednesday Addams is pretty normal.

Well, we finally know what the black smoke belching out of the Back Half chimneys is coming from.

For all its considerable flaws, the MCU is a bounty of creative riches. Something like Wakanda, a secretive Afrofuturist wonderland of preserved culture and advanced...

It takes an effort to remember this now, but everyone used to keep track of what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in. It used...

Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen. Twisted Metal is back for Season 2, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This might not be immediately apparent in...

Two years after Season 1 turned out to be surprisingly good, and thirty years after the debut of the long-abandoned PlayStation series on which it’s...

War of the Worlds (2025) is impressively terrible in a lot of different ways, but its ending is particularly egregious. What is otherwise an ill-advised...

It doesn’t generally speak highly of a movie when it’s quietly dumped on a streaming platform after only being announced — equally quietly, with zero...

Bucking the trend of video game adaptations being woeful, Peacock’s Twisted Metal was a good time. This is especially surprising considering it was based on...