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As Wesley Snipes’ Blade once put it, “Some motherf***ers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.” That seems strangely apt for the short-lived “Blade” continuation series, which did its best to pick up where Snipes’ Blade film trilogy left off. Was he in it? No. Had the movies gotten better with each successive entry, thereby priming…

People who used to watch the Harry Potter movies might recognize Jason Isaacs as the white-haired Lucius Malfoy, a wicked warlock with a pipsqueak son. Trekkies will recognize him as the evil Captain Gabriel Lorca, the “Star Trek” Mirror Universe sadist from “Star Trek: Discovery.” Those who merely enjoy the craft of acting will recognize…

The 2021 NBC sci-fi series “Debris” was a classic post-“Lost” mystery-box-style show, but it had a more intriguing premise than most. Six months prior to the start of the series, a massive alien spacecraft exploded in Earth’s orbit, and huge chunks of debris rained down on the planet. This alien spacecraft was made of materials…

Most readers may know Nugh Howley from his novels “Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust,” which have collectively been adapted into the hit sci-fi Apple TV series “Silo,” currently in its third season. “Silo,” as its many fans know, is set in a very distant future after an unknown cataclysm has rendered the surface of Earth uninhabitable. Thousands of survivors live…

If you grew up in the mid-2000s and regularly tuned into the Discovery Kids channel, chances are you stumbled across a niche animated series that took ancient Greek mythology, superheroes, and teen angst, and threw them all into a blender. That show was the cleverly titled “Class of the Titans” — clearly a cute riff…

One of the really great things about horror as a genre is that we don’t just get singular movies but instead frequently get entire franchises. What starts with one good movie often turns into sequels, spinoffs, and more. Just look at things like Saw, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, and so many. more. Sometimes, those movie franchises…