Netflix continues its massive reign of dropping great new original-content shows. Almost monthly now it seems, always something new and completely different. This month their big drop was The Umbrella Academy, based on the Dark Horse Comics series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. The plot revolves around a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! While this week’s Night Vale recap had a lot of UFOs, shape-changing trees, and french fries, it also had a lot to say about life and loss and grief. So to switch gears we talked about some of the Oscar Nominated
We love the Ecto-1 Transformer toy that’s coming this summer from Hasbro, but we weren’t expecting a Transformers/Ghostbusters mashup coming this June from IDW. We definitely approve. Keep reading for an interview with writer Erik Burnham, artist Dan Schoening, and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado.
You can also listen to this episode on our Lost In Sci-Fi channel at Anchor.fm! We’re back! After a long break, Elizabeth and Leland are back to talk all things nerdy! This week they get together and talk all about comics. New ones and old ones! They both take time to tell each other about
A mutation in Toxoplasmosis causes menstruating women to turn into ferocious killer wildcats – easily provoked and extremely dangerous. As panic spreads and paranoia takes root, the fate of the world rides on the shoulders of one twelve-year-old-girl. So Kelly Sue DeConnick, the writer behind Bitch Planet, said on twitter that Chelsea Cain’s Man-Eaters series is
Hello, You’re Dead. Please Wait In Line. Peter Green wakes up in the lobby of Purgatory – with no memory of how he died – wearing only pinstriped pajamas and a white silk tie, surrounded by dead people. Believe it or not, all of this is perfectly normal, one more newcomer who
It’s only a few hours till the Oscars, so guest reviewer reelrealities returns with a look at 2018’s surprise hit “A Quiet Place.” Horror can be a tricky genre to master. We get scores of horror movies each year but remember only a handful by the end. So it’s refreshing when filmmakers give new twists
The Oscars are almost here, so guest reviewer L. Seymour gives us an Australian’s opinion of Vice. Vice is a biographical drama/comedy written and directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman, Step Brothers, and Talladega Nights). Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, and Jesse Plemons, the film follows Dick Cheney on his
For the past few years I’ve watched all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts, officially because they’re timely and important films to watch. Unofficially it’s because they’re short, and I can knock out a whole category in an evening. This year, though, it might’ve been better to space them out: they’re well-made, intelligent, and often beautiful, but