This article includes spoilers for the movie Adrift. Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s story of her boat being tossed about by a vicious Pacific hurricane sounds as frightening as it looks in the new movie Adrift. “We were coming up and over…
A Childhood Dream Come True With ‘A Wrinkle In Time’
Catherine Hand says that after her first childhood reading of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, she wrote a letter to Walt Disney asking him to make the book into a movie. She never sent that letter. Decades later, she…
A Talk With The Young Stars Of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’
This week, Disney releases A Wrinkle In Time – just in time for summer vacations. Storm Reid stars as Meg Murry, and Deric McCabe stars as Meg’s brother Charles Wallace. Together with Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe (Levi Miller), the Murry…
Movie Review: ‘Adrift’ Brings Us The Summer’s Most Badass Female Protagonist
Adrift brings us the most badass female protagonist of this summer movie season. She’s not a warrior. She doesn’t wear a super suit. She doesn’t have mutant powers. She simply survives. Her antagonist is not an alien, not an evil…
A Different Kind Of Survival Story: Talking With The Director Of ‘Adrift’
Perhaps growing up in Iceland gave director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) his affinity for survival stories. “I come from a country that basically it’s a survival experience to go to school in the morning!” he laughed while talking with reporters about his…
‘Adrift’ Stars Woodley And Claflin Talk About Getting Their Sea Legs
Sailing across the Pacific Ocean sounds like a dream vacation. In the new movie Adrift, opening June 1, it quickly becomes a nightmare for a young couple when their boat is swamped by a hurricane. Shailene Woodley (The Fault In…
Returning To Neverland With A Disney Legend
Full disclosure: Peter Pan is my favorite Disney movie, and has been since I first saw it at age 13. My son’s childhood room is decorated with Peter Pan artwork. So I jumped at the chance to visit the Disney Studios for…
From The Upfronts: ‘Murphy Brown’ Making Her Comeback
Of all the new shows the networks are promoting at their Upfronts this week, the one that has me the most excited is an oldie but goodie. Murphy Brown is coming back to CBS this fall, on Thursday nights at…
‘Timeless’ Takes Television Beyond The Idiot Box
It’s an interesting coincidence that this week’s suffragette episode of Timeless comes just days after the death of Schoolhouse Rock! songwriter Bob Dorough. One of his iconic songs was “Sufferin’ Till Suffrage,” with the memorable line, “Those pilgrim women who…
What’s Ahead For New And Familiar Faces On ‘The 100?’
It’s not too much longer until the new season of The 100 and we’re excited. The show has the potential to feel like a reboot, but it also has the potential to continue to be fantastic. At Wondercon, Showrunner Jason…
‘The 100’ Showrunner Teases Prequel
We’re counting down to the Season 5 premiere of The 100 with cast and creator interviews from Wondercon 2018 in Anaheim. Executive producer Jason Rothenberg gave us a little teaser about the prequel he’s been working on. “The thing that…
‘The 100’s’ New Mediator: A Talk With Bob Morley
When The 100 returns for Season 5, fans can expect Bellamy to be playing a new role: that of mediator. At this year’s WonderCon press room, series star Bob Morley talked about the changes ahead for his character, and the…
‘The 100’s’ Christopher Larkin Talks About Monty’s Journey and Space Snacks
Christopher Larkin had Girl Scout cookies on his mind when he joined our table in the press room at Wondercon 2018. After a brief discussion of Samoas and Peanut Butter Patties, we dove in to talk about his character in…
‘The 100’s’ Richard Harmon Likes The Bad Guys
Only a few days are left before The 100 returns to the CW. As we count down to the Season 5 premiere, we’re rolling out interviews with members of the cast and production team from Wondercon 2018. Richard Harmon sat…
‘The 100’ Showrunner On Clarke’s ‘Little Nightblood’
The world of “The 100” is a pretty grim place, but showrunner Jason Rothenberg found “a breath of fresh air” in actress Lola Flanery. The 12-year-old plays Madi, a daughter figure to Clarke. He gave a little of Madi’s background…
When The Comfort Zone Is The Danger Zone: Creating ‘Black Lightning’
Tonight’s episode of Black Lightning opens with a drug deal and a kidnapping, and ends with a shocking reveal. WonderCon audiences got an early look at “Sins of the Father” on Sunday, and showrunner Salim Akil later sat down with…
‘Every Day’ Challenges Labels And Perceptions
When you wake up in the morning, once you’ve shaken off the fog of dreams, you know who you are, where you are and what you’ll do that day. But imagine waking up and not knowing any of those things,…
What We’re Looking Forward To In The Arrowverse Crossover
Four shows. Heroes by the dozen. Two weddings – and a funeral. The producers of Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow have promised a crossover event that’s not just four television shows tied together, but a four-hour movie…
‘Legends of Tomorrow’: When Fandom Breaks Your Heart
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling: Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware of giving your heart to a ‘ship to tear. On Saturday Wentworth Miller, who plays Leonard Snart/Captain Cold in DC’s Arrowverse, posted on Instagram that he’s currently shooting…
Our ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Scorecard
Back in July we put together a list of seven things we’d like to see in Game of Thrones Season 7. Now that it’s in the books, here’s our scorecard for how we fared. And, to be honest, we did…
“Batman and Harley Quinn” Brings The Fun Back To Gotham
Gotham is not and never will be Mayberry. If it was, it wouldn’t need a Dark Knight. But after years of making dark animated films, Batman’s creative team lightened up and had fun with the newest DC Universe Original Movie,…
