By Dave B.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix) takes place in 1984 London, a young man named Stefan is attempting to design a revolutionary video game: one that plays as a Choose Your Own Adventure story where players determine the outcome. Stefan models his game on the fictional Choose Your Own Adventure novel, Bandersnatch, whose author was driven insane by realizations he made while writing the book. Will Stefan be able to avoid the same fate, while gaining fame and fortune as the world’s most ground-breaking new game designer?

By Dave B.

​It’s that time of year when bloggers, reviewers, and fans make their “Best” and “Worst” lists. My lists are going to be a bit different for a few reasons. Firstly, because they aren’t individually exclusive to television, movies, nor entertainment that came out in 2018. Also, instead of necessarily being the movies/programs that I rated the highest, these are the ones that best hit the nexus between quality and enjoyment for me (as there can be some difference between respecting a work of art and actually liking it). Lastly, this list is inclusive of what I watched for the first time this year, irrespective of format or medium. Click the titles to see where you can stream them. So, without further ado, here’s my 2018 Top 10 Shows That You Should Watch, But Probably Won't list:

By Dave B.

​It’s that time of year when bloggers, reviewers, and fans make their “Best” and “Worst” lists. My lists are going to be a bit different for a few reasons. Firstly, because they aren’t individually exclusive to television, movies, nor entertainment that came out in 2018. Also, instead of necessarily being the movies/programs that I rated the highest, these are the ones that best hit the nexus between quality and enjoyment for me (as there can be some difference between respecting a work of art and actually liking it). Lastly, this list is inclusive of what I watched for the first time this year, irrespective of format or medium. Click the titles to see where you can stream them. So, without further ado, here’s my 2018 Top 5 Documentaries list:

By Dave B.

"Premieres" will feature official trailers and synopses from what I feel looks like the most interesting (or the only, in some cases) original programming coming out in the subsequent week on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and elsewhere. In no way to these previews represent recommendations or reviews. My intent is to post this segment each Thursday or Friday, but we'll see. Enjoy!

By Dave B.

In my review of Marvel’s Runaways: Season One, I confidently asserted that the show definitely didn’t completely suck. It’s slightly more difficult for me to make that same assertion with the second season. Marvel’s Runaways: Season Two (Hulu) picks up almost immediately after the conclusion of last season’s finale. Our heroes are homeless, directionless, and still on the run from their diabolical parents. Their otherworldly nemesis is still lurking around and has yet to give up on his plans to return home, a side-effect of which will be the destruction of California. Will the Runaways be able to stop him again, while growing into their newfound powers and adulthood?

By Dave B.

​It’s that time of year when bloggers, reviewers, and fans make their “Best” and “Worst” lists. My lists are going to be a bit different because they aren’t individually exclusive to television, movies, nor entertainment that came out in 2018. They’re going to be inclusive of what I watched for the first time this year, irrespective of medium. This was a tough list to compile and I had to leave some truly GREAT entertainment off of it, so if you’re interested in finding some more fantastic science fiction shows and movies to watch, check out our Science Fiction Pages. And without further ado, here’s my Top 5 Science Fiction list:

By Dave B.

In Bird Box (Netflix) Malorie (Sandra Bullock) attempts a desperate, treacherous journey down a river with two children  to find a safe haven during an apocalyptic situation. Blindfolded. Malorie’s harrowing flight is interspersed with flashbacks to five years in the past, when an epidemic of grizzly suicides sweeps the world when people see…something that can’t be described because if you see it, you die. As Malorie and the children approach their destination, will they be able to overcome their own hopes and fears while remembering the lessons of the past five years that may enable them to make a journey that is nearly impossible? Or will they guarantee their failure by taking a peek at the threats that surround them?

By Dave B.

​It’s that time of year when bloggers, reviewers, and fans make their “Best” and “Worst” lists. My lists are going to be a bit different for a few reasons. Firstly, because they aren’t individually exclusive to television, movies, nor entertainment that came out in 2018. Also, instead of necessarily being the movies/programs that I rated the highest, these are the ones that best hit the nexus between quality and enjoyment for me (as there can be some difference between respecting a work of art and actually liking it). Lastly, this list is inclusive of what I watched for the first time this year, irrespective of format or medium. Click the titles to see where you can stream them. So, without further ado, here’s my 2018 Top 5 Horror/Thriller list:

By Dave B.

In Destination Wedding (2018, currently on Amazon Prime) misanthropic Frank (Keanu Reeves) and neurotic Lindsay (Winona Rider) are thrust together at the wedding of Frank’s brother, who is also Lindsay’s ex-fiancé. The two develop a bond as the outcasts on the wedding’s sidelines. But can that bond overcome their initial antipathy towards each other and the emotional armor that each of them carries as a legacy of their emotional damage?

By Dave B.

In The Humanity Bureau (2018, currently on Netflix) the world has suffered economic and climatological devastation. Nicolas Cage plays Noah Kross, a bureaucrat/agent for America’s newest federal organization, the Humanity Bureau. The Bureau is tasked with deporting those citizens who consume more than they produce, a seeming necessity in an era when all resources, especially food and clean water, are scarce. When Kross is forced to deport a woman and her (extremely annoying) young son, he begins to question the morality of his work. He soon discovers that the Humanity Bureau has a secret agenda that forces him to take action against his colleagues to help a woman that he hardly knows.