*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Left My Hearts in San Francisco… In May of 1996, after a 7 year drought of Doctor Who (which was last broadcast in the US on PBS), I was set to enjoy an all-new Doctor Who adventure. This would be a single TV-movie, acting as a pilot episode, which would air in the…
From “Saturday Night Live” to outer space: Norm Macdonald (1960-2021)…
Short and Sweet. Keeping this column short, as I’m still recovering from recent hand surgery, and typing with a keyboard is still a bit difficult at the moment, but I wanted–no, needed to put this one out there. Norm Macdonald. While I generally write about sci-fi/fantasy/horror entertainment in this column, I just wanted to pay…
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” features a cast for the future’s past…
Forgive me if this column is a bit briefer than usual, but I’m recovering from hand surgery and my typing speed is down to a crawl, so apologies in advance if I let the graphics and videos do most of the heavy lifting on this one! *****SOME SPECULATIVE SPOILERS***** “We’ve just finished 18 months redesigning…
Retro-Musings: “Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot” (1967) was a goofy staple of childhood…
Mecha Memories. When I was a kid, VCRs weren’t really a thing yet (let alone DVDs, BluRays, DVRs or streaming), so you watched whatever was on TV at the time. Usually a favorite movie of yours would air once a year, if you were lucky, and you would make sure your butt was home and…
Biting the bullets: “From Dusk Till Dawn,” 25 years later…
*****BLOOD-SUCKING SPOILERS!***** Dawn of “From Dusk…” I still vividly remember trying to get my friends to come with me to see the new vampire/crime-drama flick from director Robert Rodriguez (“Desperado” “Spy Kids”) and writer/actor Quentin Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction,” “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” ) back in February of 1996. I was a bachelor in…
“The Suicide Squad” (2021) is a big, brutal, mean-spirited time killer…
******KEIJU-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** Good News and Bad News. The Good News. If you are, as I am, still skittish about returning to movie theaters during the current COVID-19 pandemic? You can still catch 2021’s reboot of “The Suicide Squad,” directed by James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) on HBOMax, without an extra access code, now through…
All Our Yesterdays: My reviews of the “Star Trek” movies…
Now that I’ve reviewed all of the Star Trek movies for this column, the collector-nerd part of me wants them on one convenient, easy-to-find shelf for easier perusal. So this column will act as a one-stop ‘box set’ for my 13 Star Trek movie reviews, from “The Motion Picture” to “Beyond.” With Star Trek celebrating…
“The Immortal” (1969-1971) was a short-lived ‘Fugitive’ with magic blood…
******TYPE-O SPOILERS!!****** “Try Try Try to Understand…He’s a Magic Man.” Ben Richards, as played by Christopher George (1931-1982) is a race car test driver who learns that his blood–after donating some of it to a dying old industrialist named Jordan Braddock (Barry Sullivan)–has unique regenerative properties that will allow him to live virtually forever (barring…
DisneyPlus’ “What If…?” offers a fanfic-styled exploration of Marvel’s multiverse…
Catching Up With Fandom. The notion of taking favorite beloved (licensed) characters and playing around with them a bit isn’t exactly new–in fact, the internet has been doing it almost since its inception, with fan-written fanfic (‘fan fiction’, for the uninitiated). In pre-internet days, fanfic was often printed in mimeographed, self-published fanzines circulated at conventions,…
Retro-Musings: “The UFO Incident” (1975) is an impeccable account of an implausible tale…
The Interrupted Journey. When I was about eight or so, I remember watching a TV-movie that truly creeped me out; it was called “The UFO Incident,” based on a 1966 book called “The Interrupted Journey,” and it told the story of the alleged alien abduction of Betty (Estelle Parsons) and Barney Hill (James Earl Jones)….
Final report on Las Vegas’ “55 Year Mission”…
“But first, some scenes from Part 1…” “The 55 Year Mission” in Las Vegas is a Star Trek convention by any other name. Creation Entertainment, which has traditionally held the license to host “official” Star Trek conventions was forced to rebrand their world-famous Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this year, after losing the official…
“The 55 Year Mission” in Las Vegas is a Star Trek convention by any other name…
Invasion Of The Threll…? The current COVID pandemic cancelled last year’s annual Star Trek Convention at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, but just in time for the franchise’s 55 year anniversary, the convention has returned. However, a few things have been changed. Creation Entertainment, which has run the convention for decades, apparently…
