Why The Borg Keeps Assimilating Star Trek Shows
Patrick Stewart is reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the new TV series “Picard,” where the writers have promised a very different storyline on his arch nemesis The Borg. In our final installmen...
9 Tammi 202030min
In Defense of The Star Wars Holiday Special
As far as Star Wars fans are concerned, there is no greater hive of scum and villainy than the 1978 made-for-TV Star Wars Holiday Special. The musical variety program, which centered on Chewbacca’s fa...
25 Joulu 201926min
Can Villains Be Good?
What does it take for a villain to be redeemed? That’s not a theoretical question when that villain is Kylo Ren who may or may not be redeemed in Star Wars Episode IX. I talk with Charles Pulliam-Moor...
12 Joulu 201927min
My So Called Evil Plan
Villains are having a moment. They’re getting their own movies, they’re inspiring hashtags that say they’re right. And they don’t want to take over the world. They want to save it -- at a very high co...
27 Marras 201924min
For All Mankind Blasts Off
Ronald D. Moore is probably best known for rebooting Battlestar Galactica as a gritty political commentary in the early 2000s. His latest show For All Mankind on AppleTV Plus imagines what if the Sovi...
14 Marras 201935min
The Origin of Alien Abduction Narratives
Think of an alien abduction: humanoid creatures, medical experiments, lost memories brought back by hypnosis. But that narrative was largely unknown until Betty and Barney Hill went public about their...
30 Loka 201936min
The Art of Talking to the Dead
Jason Suran wants you to know he can’t talk to the dead. Then he will convince you that he can. In Suran’s show, The Other Side, he recreates a theatrical type of séance that departed American culture...
16 Loka 201930min
Monster or Anti-Hero? Godzilla’s Creators Disagreed
We all know Godzilla’s iconic roar, but the musician who scored Godzilla's rampages is not as well known. The composer Akira Ifukube’s collaboration with the director Ishiro Honda is fascinating becau...
2 Loka 201927min
