The Alphas (Episode 2) of Warehouse 13 (Episode 3.2) in Eureka (Episode 412)

Thank you, SyFy, for making Mondays something to look forward to!  My husband has completely stopped watching Warehouse 13 and hasn’t started watching Alphas, but it’s still a joy to share Eureka with him.. and we got to squee geekily together, which is always a great thing.  However, this week’s episodes of all three were […]

A Book by its Cover: Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer

Back cover blurb: “By the author of “The Dive From Clausen’s Pier,” one of the great Midwestern marine horror novels of the 21st century, comes a novel so chilling that it comes with a wool blanket at the check out counter. Finnigan Mt. Belucci, estranged son of the famed Belucci Fishing Family, just wants to […]

Torture Cinema Poll #3 Results

We’d like to thank Eoghann Irving for launching a small, but not inconsiderable, campaign for our next Torture Cinema movie selection.  Without him, we’d likely be watching something like Jumper, which is only moderately bad as a movie.  In fact, after all the awful movies we’ve been forced to watch in the last year, we […]

SFFTV: The 9 Lives (Episode 5) of Teen Wolf (Episode 7)

A week late and a few dollars short, here is the review for last week’s episodes of Teen Wolf and The 9 Lives of Chloe King.  Both were a pretty big improvement over the previous week, but  Teen Wolf still suffers from weak acting out of its main character, and 9 Lives still suffers from […]

SFFTV: Falling Skies — Another Monumental Disappointment

I’m done with TNT’s Falling Skies. This is the second science fiction TV show they’ve produced that I’ve given up on and I’m starting to see a trend. The first was The Walking Dead, which suffered from many of the same issues that make Falling Skies such a weak piece of science fiction. Namely, the […]