After an uneven season 4 that left a lot people sort of cold on True Blood, season 5 returns Sunday June 10 with us picking up where we left off last year. I feel that enough time has passed to make me forget some of the worst parts of season 4 and get excited for some of the prospects of season 5.
A show about cast out spies, Burn Notice delivers roaring action, great family dynamics, and a good love story between its leads. I don’t know why I waited so long to catch up with this show and am glad I didn’t wait any longer.
The second and darker of the Snow White films was released this weekend headlined by Charlize Theron as the evil Queen, and Chris Hemsworth as the titular character the Huntsman, with Kristen Stewart as the all-important Snow White. Notice how I didn’t say that Kristen Stewart headlined this movie because all the marketing was firmly to put emphasis on Charlize Theron (an established headliner) and Chris Hemsworth, Thor himself, to the forefront to draw people in.
If you had told me before last summer that MTV would start making great scripted shows, I would have laughed at you. If you had told me that that show would be a re-imagining on the popular Teen Wolf movie from the 80s that featured teenagers and lacrosse, I would have told you that you have no idea what good television is.
Wow just wow. Those were the first words that I could utter after watching the midnight premiere of Marvel’s The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon. After two and a half hours of just being blown away with constant amazing scenes I was literally spent. The amount of comic book fanboy moments in this film was insane and they were all so amazingly well done.
The fourth book in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid chronicles picks up where the third book left off: Atticus O’Sullivan on the run avoiding the gods of Asgard that want to kill him in retaliation for killing Thor.
SyFy finally gets back to its science fiction and fantasy roots by importing this kick-ass series from Canada about a succubus named Bo.
This Joss Whedon production has finally hit theaters, after being stuck in limbo due to MGM’s money woes, for a year. I was extremely excited to see Whedon and his collaborator writer and the film’s director Drew Goddard take on a horror movie after being burned out by so many sequels, remakes, reboot, reimaginings, and general gore fest that the horror genre has de-evolved into.
NBC goes big with Awake, after shelving it for midseason; people finally get to see this great piece of television. I am not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the best pilots I have ever seen (and I have seen a lot). It is near perfect. It succeeds on what I believe a pilot should be: a short mini film that tells you an engaging, engrossing story that ends with an open-enough question that makes you want to watch more episodes.
We are honored here at KRL to be able to interview Urban Fantasy author Rob Thurman! We also have a review of her latest book, Doubletake, and a chance to win a copy (details at the end of this post).
