*****SAVAGE SPOILERS!***** “Predator” (1987) Couple of things. First, I’m not a huge fan of the “Predator” movies. I enjoyed the first film well enough, and I own it on DVD, but its sequels and offshoots are a textbook case of diminishing returns, with each new entry feeling increasingly repetitive, and too often trotting out the…
“Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe” sends the boys into a black hole. Huhuhuh … ‘hole’
*****SPOILERS!!***** 1990s Guilty Pleasure Back in late 1993, I remember my sister telling me about a new cartoon series on MTV called “Beavis and Butthead” (1993-1998), which chronicled the misadventures of two aimless, idiotic teenage boys who created all kinds of chaos in between mocking music videos. Before then, I vaguely remembered hearing of Beavis…
“Woman in Motion” (2019) opens a hailing frequency to a remarkable lady…
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****SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** To those, like myself, who’ve ever met Nichelle Nichols at a sci-fi convention, you get a feeling of being in the presence of royalty; she is both charming and regal, yet disarming with her earthly candor (and her laugh). Director Todd Thompson has assembled a…
From Jack the Ripper to Bob Cratchit; the legacy of David Warner (1941-2022)…
Range. This week saw the loss of renowned British actor David Warner at age 80, from cancer complications, just five days shy of his 81st birthday. Sadly, I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting David Warner, as I’d hoped to meet him at a convention a year ago, but he cancelled due to health reasons….
San Diego Comic Con 2022 returns at full-strength…
Welcome Back, San Diego Comic Con. With the cancellation of San Diego Comic Con 2020 and the much smaller capacity San Diego Comic Con ‘Special Edition’ over last year’s Thanksgiving weekend, SDCC returned in all of its 130,000 attendee glory this past week (July 20th-July 24th), and it was both good and a little terrifying…
“JAWS: The Revenge” (1987) spits up a seasick finale to the JAWS saga…
“It’s Not Gonna Be Pleasant.” As longtime readers of this site may already know, I’m a huge fan of “JAWS” (1975), which is (in my opinion) the greatest Steven Spielberg movie ever made. “JAWS” created the summer event movie; a phenomenon that continues to this day, even through the leaner, meaner COVID years of movie-attendance….
The Orville: New Horizons, S3.7: “From Unknown Graves” comes an enemy’s story…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** There’s been an avalanche of sci-fi TV content lately, and it’s been difficult for me to do ongoing reviews for all the new episodes of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, and “For All Mankind,” (two current favorites). I didn’t plan to dole out so much exclusive attention on “The Orville: New Horizons” (“Twice…
The Orville: New Horizons, S3.6; “Twice in a Lifetime” takes a voyage home…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** “Lasting Impressions.” The second season of The Orville featured the episode “Lasting Impressions”, a variation on Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Booby Trap,” which saw Geordi La Forge fall in love with a holographic representation of one of the Enterprise-D’s designers, Dr. Leah Brahms. Things got a little ‘icky’ when the real Brahms…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.10; “A Quality of Mercy” upsets the ‘Balance’…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Rebalancing Balance of Terror. The season one finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) is now streaming, and while the prior two episodes of this 10-episode run (“The Elysian Kingdom” “All Those Who Wonder”) haven’t been quite as solid for me, the rest of the season has been terrific, so I had…
The Orville: New Horizons, S3.5; “A Tale of Two Topas” corrects an overdue injustice…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** “About a Girl” Revisited. Seth MacFarlane’s space series, “The Orville,” began in the fall of 2017 as a quasi-sendup of Star Trek, and I have to admit, the pilot episode, “Old Wounds,” didn’t exactly fire all of my thrusters. In fact, many of the series’ earliest episodes would insert annoying sight gags and…
Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” after 40 years…
40 Years Ago. When I was not-quite 11 years old, one of the most awe-inspiring movies I’d ever seen was Steven Spielberg’s brilliant “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”(1977). “Close Encounters” was life-changing, and propelled my current never-ending curiosity about the universe. Five years later, in 1982, I was a somewhat more cynical 15 years…
Disney’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is more about making pieces fit than bold storytelling…
*****STAR DESTROYER-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Debuting with a lot of fanfare at the recent Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” miniseries has concluded with a finale that pulls out all the stops and throws in every cameo that it can, perhaps to make it seem more impactful than it actually was. Produced/directed by “Mandalorian” veteran…
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