Well, SDCC has come and gone.    It’s been a lot of exhausting, sweaty, crowd-navigating fun.   At age 50, it’s becoming increasingly patience-taxing at times to navigate/negotiate the formidable crowds with good humor and grace, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.   It’s Nerd-vana.   And when you’re in the middle of it?…

Our annual pilgrimage to Geek Mecca (aka San Diego Comic Con) began yesterday morning (Weds. July 19th) as we arrived at our hotel (Springhill Suites, Marriott, San Diego) around noon, unpacked our stuff, ate, and Jules immediately went down to Preview Night down at the convention center.   I, feeling a bit more infirm than…

Let me begin this blog entry by saying I feel woefully inadequate (as a blogger and a fan) to sum up the life and work of the late Martin Landau. Martin Landau worked for Alfred Hitchcock (“North By Northwest”).  He and his ex-wife Barbara Bain headlined a science fiction cult series (“Space: 1999”), as well…

  Once again, we Whovians are faced with that time of bittersweet anticipation/excitement as one Doctor exits, and another enters.   The announcement was made this morning that the 13th incarnation of the beloved Doctor (or 14th, if you count the late John Hurt’s War Doctor) will be…. …. “Broadchurch”’s  Jodie Whittaker! Well done, powers-that-be…

It’s that time of the year when my wife and I prepare for our annual July pilgrimage to San Diego (an hour and 20 minutes south of us) for Comic Con.   She and I have been going to SDCC every year since 2004, with the lone exception of 2007 (and both of us regretted…

As I write this, I can hardly believe that this September will mark the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG).   When the news of ST’s return to the cathode ray broke in the fall of 1986 (coinciding with the release of the movie, “The Voyage Home”), I was pretty excited.  As…

Forgive the on-the-nose timeliness of this entry (hoping to publish on or around July 4th), but I wanna talk about a 1990s guilty-as-hell pleasure called “Independence Day” (aka ID4).   A movie I’m not entirely proud to say that I saw several times in theatrical release  (hey, there was no Netflix in 1996, okay?  So…

The 1968 original “Planet of the Apes” movie spawned four sequels, a single-season TV series, a single-season animated TV series, a less-than-successful 2001 Tim Burton remake, and now, with the imminent July 14th release of “War of the Planet of the Apes,” three films of a rebooted POTA movie series (which kicked off in 2011…

Today as I write this, it is the day after the summer solstice.  Summer is upon us and you know what that means…yes, shark movies. In my lifetime (as this is the only lifetime I’m blogging about), there is just ONE shark movie at the very top of the pyramid, and that is Steven Spielberg’s…

  A quick followup and amendment to my last blog entry Adam West (1928-2017). The end of a Caped Crusader, and of an era… Holy Memorial A bat signal was flashed upon City Hall in downtown Los Angeles at 9 pm on June 15 2017, in honor of the late “Batman” television star Adam West.  It…

My sister texted me this morning with the news of actor Adam West’s passing at age 88, and it brought back memories and even some regrets… The memories were of growing up watching him in the TV series “Batman” (1966-8) in afternoon reruns as a kid.  Even when we were little we never took it…

I have to admit; my enthusiasm for the new “Wonder Woman” (2017) movie was somewhat dimmed after Gal Gadot’s decent-if-not-overwhelming debut as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in the lackluster DC Comics’ movie “Batman v Superman” (2016). Before I go any further, I think I have to say that my initial assessment may have had more to do with…