- John Hansen
- September 11, 2020
‘Jason X’ (2002) a futuristic guilty pleasure
The last time we saw Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder), in 1993’s “Jason Goes to Hell,” he is dead and buried at the end of a
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- John Hansen
- September 4, 2020
‘Raised by Wolves’ offers little beyond its look
The Fall TV season gets off to both an early and an inauspicious start with “Raised by Wolves” (HBO Max), which at first blush has
- John Hansen
- August 24, 2020
‘Our Friends from Frolix 8’ (1970) takes on spy state
“Our Friends from Frolix 8” (written in 1969, published in 1970) kicks off Philip K. Dick’s thematic police state/drug war trilogy, and although “Flow My
- John Hansen
- August 13, 2020
‘The Martian’ (2015) one of century’s elite hard SF films
The story of “The Martian’s” publication is as good as the book itself, maybe even better. Computer programmer and amateur author Andy Weir published it
- John Hansen
- July 27, 2020
Lovegrove steps up game in ‘Firefly: The Ghost Machine’
After leaning into the Western side of sci-fi/Western in his first two “Firefly” novels, James Lovegrove uses sci-fi to good effect in “The Ghost Machine”
- John Hansen
- July 20, 2020
‘Firefly’ side trips: ‘Bad Company,’ ‘Boss Moon’ and ‘The Outlaw Ma Reynolds’ (2019-20)
As comic companies are wont to do, Boom! Studios has accompanied its regular “Firefly” series with a handful of one-shots throughout the early part of
- John Hansen
- July 14, 2020
Paranoia reigns in PKD’s ‘A Maze of Death’ (1970)
I really liked “A Maze of Death” (written in 1968, published in 1970) on my first read. I enjoyed it when religions were made fun
- John Hansen
- July 13, 2020
‘Firefly’ starts with a Boom! in ‘Unification War’ (2018-19)
When talking about the first arc of Boom! Studios’ “Firefly” comics, we have to address the elephant in the room: Despite being titled “The Unification
- John Hansen
- July 6, 2020
Saffron, ‘Firefly’s’ women star in ‘The Sting’ (2019)
“Firefly: The Sting” (November 2019) is an ambitious hardcover graphic novel centered on Saffron, from writer Delilah S. Dawson and a team of artists. But
- John Hansen
- June 22, 2020
‘Firefly’ flies into novels with ‘Big Damn Hero’ (2018)
A line of “Firefly” novels was advertised in the back of the “Serenity” novelization in 2005, but it wasn’t until 13 years later that we