Magazine Archive
Can We Avoid the Bleak Future of Syfy’s Incorporated?
Syfy’s Incorporated is set in 2074, when corporations rule everything, governments rule nothing and the wealthy live in Green Zones. […]
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Fall TV 2016
USA Network’s Falling Water Is a Dreamy, Intricate Mystery
This mind-bending drama series follows three unrelated people who discover that they are dreaming separate parts of a single, highly significant dream. […]
Interview
Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy Address Westworld Violence
In Sunday’s premiere episode of Westworld, HBO’s series update of the 1973 Michael Crichton chiller set in a futuristic theme park, Evan Rachel Wood’s spunky, spirited animatron Dolores Abernathy suffers mightily at the hands of Ed Harris’ mysterious Man in Black. • RELATED: Westworld: HBO’s Star-Packed Series Updates Micahel Crichton’s 1973 Chiller to entertaining. unsettling effect Her fellow female “hosts” in the park, especially those who work at the beer hall, don’t fare much better. Neither do a solid number of male hosts who are the favorite targets for the park’s visitors’ — the robots call them “newcomers” — who are free to behave […]
Magazine Archive
Timeless: Past Meets WTF-uture In NBC’s Time-Travel Adventure
Timeless NBC Premieres: Oct. 3 Airs: Mondays at 10pm Who’s In It? Goran Visnjic, Malcolm Barrett, Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Sakina Jaffrey, Paterson Joseph What’s It All About? Time travel melded with snappy history lessons, plenty of action, loads of creativity and smart laughs. Plus — and this is a big plus — time machines that look like giant Mike Wazowski eyeballs that fly by spinning their inner lids. And it’s from The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and Supernatural’s Eric Kripke. We’ve all said it: “If I could turn back time, I’d … ” Whatever your “after the ‘I’d’” is, NBC’s […]
Drama
Westworld: HBO’s Star-Packed Series Updates Crichton’s 1973 Chiller
Westworld premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9/8CT on HBO What if — for a day or a week — the world was yours to control? Someone giving you grief? Waste them without consequence. That lovely lady right there at the bar? Yours for the taking, no questions asked. The drinks flow freely, you win every game and nobody cares if you’re a workaday schlub fending off a midlife meltdown. But what if you were the irritant, that pretty woman, another someone in your unfettered path? And what if, one day, you realized that your moment-by-moment existence is no more than a construct […]
Movies
Starz Will Have Exclusive Television Premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It’s unclear whether or not Starz having the word “star” in its name had any impact on this, but the box office-busting, enormously popular and generally well-reviewed seventh installment in the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will make its exclusive television premiere Saturday, Sept. 10, on all six Starz channels at 9pm ET/PT, with a repeat at 11:20pm ET/PT, the network announced today. Additionally, the film will be available for download via the Starz app as of Sept. 10. “No greater fandom has ever existed than the Star Wars fans, and we are thrilled to be the exclusive home of […]
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Syfy’s 2016 Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon Episode Schedule
Syfy’s 2016 Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon will begin late July 3 and run all day July 4. Here are the episodes airing this year. […]
Based On The Comic
Preacher: Man literally seeks God in AMC’s new comic-based saga
What would happen if God checked out of heaven and went on the lam? That’s exactly what transpires in AMC’s new Preacher. Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s 1990s comic series, Preacher centers on Rev. Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper, Agent Carter), a world weary, cig smoking, smokin’ hot Texas padre who, in one strange moment at the pulpit, is possessed of a godlike power as God himself goes AWOL — leaving Jesse the only one who can track the big guy down and hold him responsible for what ensues. Along for the ride: Jesse’s ballsy ex Tulip (just try to take your eyes off […]
Drama
In Syfy’s Hunters, Gale Anne Hurd wants to make aliens scary again — and she succeeds
Among her many feature film and television credits, Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) seems to return time and again to the sci-fi and horror genres, and especially to aliens. Hurd notably collaborated with James Cameron to bring to life the nightmarish alien queen of Aliens (1986), and she thinks it’s time to make aliens scary again. That’s part of her stated goal as an executive producer of Syfy’s new series Hunters. Inspired by Whitley Strieber’s novel Alien Hunter, the series, featuring Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), follows a highly classified government organization known as the Exo-Terrorism Unit, which tracks and fights […]
Drama
Preview: Supergirl teams up with The Flash in crossover event
The March 28 episode of Supergirl, “World’s Finest,” features a crossover with The CW’s series The Flash, as Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and his speedy superhero alter ego The Flash head to National City to join forces with Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). The Flash suddenly appears from an alternate universe to help Supergirl battle Siobhan Smythe (recurring guest star Italia Ricci), a.k.a. Silver Banshee, and Leslie Willis (recurring guest star Brit Morgan), a.k.a. Livewire, in exchange for her help in finding a way to return him home. Supergirl: “World’s Finest” premieres on CBS Monday, March 28, at 8pm ET/PT. Photo: Robert Voets/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2016 […]