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Big Girls #2 Review: A Superlative Sci-Fi Accomplishment
The boys are becoming seemingly mindless, mutated monsters that barely resemble humanoids called "Jacks." The women, who grow tall but look (proportionately) normal, protect the remains of human society from the monstrous boys in a dystopian science fiction vision that comes fully formed from the mind of Jason Howard. The cover of Big Girls #2 Credit:[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Sheetal Sheth, the Pragmatist
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Richard Anderson, the Man with Two Roles
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Amy Hill
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Jennifer Field, the Alien
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Harrison Xu, the Time Traveler
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres[...]
Comisery Launches – How to Accidentally Make a Movie
It's an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown. "Comisery" key art, courtesy[...]
Mad Men, AMC
It is also secretly a Science Fiction series and the longest unofficial The Twilight Zone story ever made It ended its 7-season run back in 2015 but is still talked about with reverence It deserves all the critical acclaim, deserving its place next to The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood and Breaking Bad It meticulously recreated[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Bee Vang
It's a new form of narrative filmmaking that the industry is still coming to terms with. Comisery poster, Margin Films Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It[...]
"Noughts + Crosses", BBC, Peacock
First, they announced Jimmy McGovern's TV movie ANTHONY, now they've released the trailer for the BBC's adaptation of Malorie Blackman's classic Young Adult Science Fiction book series Noughts + Crosses. The series will premiere on September 4th. "Noughts + Crosses", BBC, Peacock The book series is considered a classic in the UK ever since it debuted in 2000[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy about a group of friends living through the pandemic who are suddenly confronted with an alien invasion in the form of a virus from the future Time travel, Quantum Physics, would-be hitmen, and sheer chaos ensue They're all stuck at home and have to figure out what[...]
Brave New World | Official Trailer | Peacock
The series is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's 1931 dystopian Science Fiction novel about a future society founded on plenty and leisure, where privacy is controlled, monogamy is taboo  Family, money, and history are all banned Everyone is born into a specific class or caste, encouraged to engage in free love and hedonism outside of[...]
Publicity still from Doctor Who: "The Curse of Fenric", BBC
It's possibly the most epic villain and storyline the show ever had. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pom9rOva-AcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Curse of Fenric | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pom9rOva-Ac) Publicity still from Doctor Who: "The Curse of Fenric", BBC Briggs also introduces some fascinating Science Fiction concepts that should be ripped off but hardly were: calling vampires "haemovores" and[...]
Fascape, NBCUniversal
 The non-human aliens on the show were created by The Jim Henson Company, which effectively made them muppets. Farscape, NBCUniversal Farscape also contained the funniest subtext of any Science Fiction show It was really about a hapless American dude stuck in the Australian BDSM scene where everyone he met wanted to sex him up[...]
Torchwood: Children of Earth Supercut is Still Shockingly Relevant
It burned with political anger in its Science Fiction allegory about the indifference the government shows towards people when things get bad This is a recurring theme in Russell T Davies' work that continued throughout his run on Doctor Who and also carried over to his most recent miniseries Years and Years And he was[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
We head into the penultimate episode of Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that Quentin Lee and I concocted We created it as a fantasy about a group of Asian-Americans living through the Pandemic and Lockdown with a Science Fiction veneer The next-to-last episode Almost done. Jennifer's Japanese Horror Shot Jennifer Field, who plays Camila,[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that my friend Quentin Lee and I are making is down to its last three segments, last three weeks Week 6 marks the beginning of the end Scheduling also got a bit more complicated as some of our actors are now busy Jennifer Field, who plays Camila,[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that Quentin Lee and I are making went past the midway point last week We're now on the 5th episode with 3 left to go The past weeks have gone by so quickly that it's all becoming a bit of a blur, which is probably why I[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Welcome to the production diary for Episode 4 of Comisery, our modest little Asian-American apocalyptic Science Fiction screwball comedy Everyone is at home in front of their computers because we're still in lockdown My partner-in-crime Quentin Lee and I are literally a writer's room of two as we concoct the story, often turning on a[...]
"The Machine Stops" from "Out of the Unknown" 1966, BFI
He also wrote one Science Fiction story, The Machine Stops, which has suddenly turned out to be way ahead of its time. One of the First Dystopian Science Fiction Stories The novella, written back in 1909, takes place in a far future where an entire society lives in isolation and lockdown People all live underground in their[...]
Comisery Production Diary – Week 2: All Hail Amy Hill
Into the second week, the second episode of Comisery, our Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy set during an apocalypse where everyone has to stay home while an alien virus invades and infects humanity It's one thing to shoot the first episode of a web show on Zoom with some actors It could always be a[...]