Bong Joon Ho the writer/director of Parasite dove into Edward Ashton’s science fiction novel, Mickey7, and brought it to the big screen. And it gives us a quirky, darkly comic, and smartly told film starring Robert Pattinson. Pattinson is Mickey. He and his ‘buddy’, Timo (Steven Yuen), need to get off of Earth, They owe…
Tag: ethical
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) – Poisoning the Well, and Underground
Ethical questions come up for Weir (Torri Higginson), though Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) doesn’t seem to have any in Poisoning the Well. Written by Damian Kindler from a story by Mary Kaiser this episode was first broadcast on 20 August, 2004. Sheppard’s team have made contact with the Hoffans, a human race that welcomes the team,…
Star Trek: Discovery (2019) – Brother, and New Eden
Captain’s log: stardate 1025.19 Ted Sullivan, Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts pen the season two opener of Star Trek: Discovery, which launched on 17 January, 2019. If the first season proved divisive to Trek fans, the second season upped that ante. Not only is the Enterprise on hand, but it is under command of…
Fear (2017) – Dirk Kurbjuweit
Hitting trade paperback on Canadian book shelves this week is this engrossing thriller penned by German author Dirk Kurbjuweit. A captivating tale the novel explores themes of love, family, perceptions of masculinity, and the rule of law. The novel opens with a murder. And a confession. For months Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife, Rebecca and…
Body (2015) – Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
Screening today and again on Thursday at the Slamdance film festival is this taut, tightly written and paced thriller starring three talented young women, Helen Rogers, Alexandra Tushen and Lauren Molina. It’s the Christmas holidays and three BFFs, Holly (Rogers), Cali (Tushen), and Mel (Molina) are hanging out and trying to figure out what…
The Mind Reels 