A review by Nalini Haynes Arrival is a science fiction movie where alien ships that look like rocks you’d skip over a lake come to …
Speculative fiction
Travelers season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Travelers is yet another made-for-television time travel story. Although far from the first in its genre in the past few …
The Albino Redwoods by Heather Nelson
A review by Nalini Haynes Joey is a Caucasian girl living in a world where albinos (never ‘persons with albinism’) rule. Society is segregated into …
Daughter of Blood by Helen Lowe
A review by Nalini Haynes Daughter of Blood is book 3 in Lowe’s Wall of Night quartet, an award-winning epic fantasy science fiction series set …
The Refugees (TV series)
A review by Nalini Haynes The Refugees is a science fiction TV series about people from the future transporting themselves into the present “because we …
Trepalium season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Trepalium is a short TV season from France with English subtitles, set in a 1984-style dystopian France where a wall …
Supergirl season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Kara (Melissa Benoist) flees her home planet of Krypton in a space ship minutes after her cousin was launched, heading …
Rogue One (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Rogue One is the latest Star Wars movie but this one is set just before A New Hope (1977), the …
Girl In Time by John Birmingham
A review by Nalini Haynes Cady lives in an alternate reality where Hillary Clinton won the election. (I suspect Birmo expected her to win but, …
Legends of Tomorrow season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes DC’s minor superheroes are the Legends of Tomorrow, men and women whose contribution to history is negligible, are recruited by …
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
The third in the reboot/new universe series, Star Trek Beyond has the distinction of being co-written by Simon Pegg, a science fiction aficionado, fanboy and …
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Twenty years after the first Independence Day movie, humanity expects the aliens to return and they’re ready. Or so they think. …
Star Wars Aftermath 2: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig
A review by Nalini Haynes Aftermath 1 brought together a new rag-tag group working for freedom in the name of the Rebellion/New Republic while the …
Luke Cage season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Over the long weekend, the minion and I watched the entire first season of Luke Cage. For those who came …
Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
A review by Nalini Haynes Celestine is a perfect girl with perfect grades and the perfect boyfriend. Her mother is a model and her father …