Tag: Firefly

Wray Nerely is not having a good day, perhaps not even a good decade. It’s ten years since Spectrum was cancelled, and while the show became a cult

SyFyUK aired the first episode of its sci-fi comic adaptation, Dark Matter, this week and from the outset it’s gripping, but it’s not until half way through that it

This morning in the GeekChocolate High Castle we were discussing the new Daredevil show, which launches on Netflix today, and there was some discussion around superheroes. Specifically, superheroes on

Science fiction conventions: a chance to mingle with like minded people, to relax in the company of strangers without having to worry about how to strike up a

On first glance, there could be few dramatists further apart than the American television writer and producer Joseph Hill Whedon and the 17th century English playwright William Shakespeare,

This June sees the release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s return to the realm of science fiction. Only twice before in his career he has turned his camera to

It began with “the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie.” That was the stereotype that writer Joss Whedon

Now in the middle of its fourth (and possibly last) season, Fringe is the brainchild of JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the men behind Lost and

There is oft the cry when watching a truly bad movie – how did this get made? The modern corollary, when viewing a film that has finally made

Thirty years ago, science fiction on television was largely aimed at children, or at most, a family audience.  In Britain, Doctor Who and the shows of Gerry Anderson