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Hong Kong’s Pccw Media and Sk Global, the company behind Crazy Rich Asians and Delhi Crime, have teamed up for the big-budget Hong Kong-set drama series The Season.

The show is created and executive produced by writer and producer Yalun Tu, known for his work on NCIS: Hawaii and Wu Assassins. Chilean filmmaker Marialy Rivas (The Jetty) serves as lead director and executive producer.

The series has a buzzy, White Lotus-like premise set amidst Hong Kong high society.

The official logline reads: “Set against the opulence and striking contrasts of Hong Kong, The Season follows a privileged group of friends gathering for a summer of sun-drenched luxury as boating season begins. What starts as a glamorous escape soon spirals into a web of deception, power struggles, and life-altering consequences.”

The ensemble cast features a mix of acclaimed regional talent, led by Jessie Mei Li (Shadow and Bone), three-time Golden Horse winner Karena Lam,...

Stars: Jasper Jones, Jay Dunn, John R. Howley, Tori Wong, Andrew Bell | Written and Directed by Andrew Bell

Vampires and vampirism have been used as metaphors for many things over the years, one of which is drug addiction. Films as diverse as Ganja and Hess, Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, Daybreakers, and Bliss have made that connection for various purposes. Now writer/director Andrew Bell gives us his addition to the genre, Bleeding, which made its North American Premiere at Dances With Films.

A title card bearing a warning from 2008 tells us we’re in an alternate timeline where Blood and Dust, two highly addictive opioids derived from the blood of what are refered to as “the infected” are ravaging the country. Overdoses, the message tells us, leads to death and reanimation.

One of those addicted is Sean who uses it to cope with a shitty home life that includes a drunken,...

“Looks like downhill from here,” Mia Berrin quips at the top of Pom Pom Squad’s second album, Mirror Starts Moving Without Me. It’s an apt opening for a project steeped in hellish Alice in Wonderland imagery and named after the uncanny horror movie trope where a character’s reflection moves out of synch. On Mirror, Berrin, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, leans into this darker tone of the Lewis Carroll classic as she illustrates an identity crisis in overdrive.

The singer first explored this theme on...

The Pokmon anime has been airing since 1997 and is still ongoing, though with a new cast of characters to focus on. While the anime has had its fair share of shorts, specials, and mini-series, it has yet to make a full anime out of any of Pokmon's many spin-off titles.

There have been short animated adaptations, serving more as publicity tools to convince fans to buy the games, giving a taste at what a Pokmon spin-off series could really be like. Fans want more than just a taste though. It's high time that these Pokmon spin-offs get an actual anime series.

A Photographer Explores the Lental Region in New Pokmon Snap Its Time for Todd Snap to Return

New Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo Switch could make an excellent short anime series. Like in the game, a young Pokemon photographer could travel to the Lental Region to help Professor Mirror,...

Warning: Spoilers for The Flash #12The Flash's enemies - or the Rogues, as they call themselves - have long since been a staple of his stories. Wherever the Flash runs, the Rogues are waiting for him with a scheme they've concocted to slow him down. Now, after thirty-five years, one of the Flash's most iconic villains has been killed off, and his death rewrites DC's history in a shocking way.

In The Flash #12 by Simon Spurrier, Ramn Prez, and Vasco Georgiev, it's the Flash Family versus the Arc Angles in an epic battle to save time itself from destruction. The Flash's Rogues, who feel betrayed by the Arc Angles after they didn't get the rewards they were promised for aiding their cause, are temporarily given super-speed to join the fight against the cosmic beings. When the situation grows dire, the Rogues attempt to flee. However, Mirror Master is unable to escape in time,...

The Mirror Universe episodes in Star Trek DS9 are hit or miss, with "Crossover" standing out as the best for its dark storytelling. "Resurrection" is criticized for its weak plot and lack of emotional impact compared to other Mirror Universe episodes. In "The Emperor's New Cloak," DS9 embraces the wacky side of the Mirror Universe, featuring campy moments and a satisfying conclusion.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine produced five Mirror Universe episodes across its seven seasons, but which ones have imperial status, and which ones are bound for the Agonizer? Introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 4, "Mirror, Mirror", the Mirror Universe made a lasting impression on fandom and the wider public consciousness. After all, pop culture's use of a goatee beard to denote an evil double surely originated with Mirror Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in Tos. "Mirror, Mirror" made such an impression on Star Trek fans that a...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy, season 2, episode 14, "Cracked Mirror"

Star Trek: Prodigy finally revealed the Mirror Universe version of Janeway and Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager. Voyager never explored the Mirror Universe, but the reasons may include it already being focused on in other series like DS9. Prodigy's introduction of Mirror Janeway and Chakotay opens the door for future exploration of other Voyager Mirror Universe characters.

I've been waiting for a Star Trek: Voyager Mirror Universe episode for years, so of course, I'm thrilled that Star Trek: Prodigy finally delivered. Since its introduction in Star Trek: The Original Series, the Mirror universe has become a staple of the franchise, adding a great layer of intrigue to the Star Trek timeline. The appeal of seeing the dark side of your favorite characters is fairly universal, and I've always liked the fact that Star Trek found a way...

Corpse Crusaders: "In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren’t quite what most people think zombies should be. There have been zombie slaves, zombie henchmen, talking zombies, beautiful zombies, and even zombie heroes.

Using archival research into Golden Age comics and extended analyses of comics from the 1940s to today, Corpse Crusaders explores the profound influence early action/adventure and superheroic generic conventions had on shaping comic book zombies. It takes the reader from the 1940s superhero, the Purple Zombie, through 1950s revenge-from-the-grave zombies, to the 1970s anti-hero, Simon Garth (“The Zombie”) and the gruesome heroes-turned-zombies of Marvel Zombies. In becoming immersed in superheroic logics early on, the zombie in comics became a figure that, unlike the traditional narrative uses of other monsters, actually...

Star Trek: Discovery's ever-changing Captains made for a wild ride through 5 seasons - even a mystery Captain! The USS Discovery's advanced tech and heroic missions saved the galaxy, but its Captains faced challenges and betrayals. From Mirror Universe frauds to stalwart Kelpien leaders, the Captains of the Discovery each left their mark on Star Trek lore.

The eponymous starship of Star Trek: Discovery has remarkably had several Captains going into its fifth and final season, and there's even one Captain who Trekkers never got to meet or even learn the identity of. Star Trek: Discovery was infamous for the game of musical chairs the series has played with the USS Discovery's Captaincy. This reached absurd heights in Star Trek: Discovery season 1 as the various bizarre circumstances of the Disco's Captain's chair saw 4 people in the role of the USS Discovery's Captain.

The USS Discovery (Ncc-1031) is a 23rd-century Crossfield Class...

The first season of "Star Trek: Discovery" was swift, action-packed, and all over the place. No sooner had audiences been introduced to Michael Burnham (Sonqua Martin-Green) than a war broke out and her captain was killed. Michael was arrested for insubordination and had to travel on board the U.S.S. Discovery on her way to face a court martial. She soon found that the Discovery hosted an expert mycologist named Lieutenant Stamets (Anthony Rapp), and he had discovered a previously undetected universe-wide network of interdimensional spores. He also found that he -- using tardigrade DNA -- could wire the Discovery's engines into this network and teleport anywhere instantaneously. To heck with Trekking. Now we bamf about the galaxy.

To complicate matters, however, the Discovery miscalculates one of its teleportations and winds up in the notorious parallel Mirror Universe, wherein everyone is evil and Earth is an Imperial conquering force.