*****BANTHA-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Written by “The Mandalorian” veterans Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”, “The Chef”) and directed by Robert Rodriguez (“From Dusk Till Dawn,”), the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” is now available for streaming on Disney+. Clocking in at a brisk 39 minutes, “Stranger in a Strange Land” (in a possible nod to…
Month: December 2021
“The Matrix Resurrections” (2021) takes aim at needless, corporate-spawned sequels…until it becomes one
The Matrix Re-Skinned? *****SOME SPOILERS***** Full disclosure: I am not the biggest fan of “The Matrix” movies. To some readers, that may sound blasphemous, but it’s true. I reasonably enjoyed the first film, though it seemed to borrow much of its style (over substance) from Japanese manga/anime (particularly 1995’s “Ghost in the Shell”–which itself was…
Star Trek: Discovery, S4.6: Batten down the hatches for “Stormy Weather”…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Stormy Weather, ” is available for streaming now, and it’s yet another example of some recognizable Trek concepts mashed together and refurbished to advance a season-long arc. As with other entries recently, the character moments more than compensate for any shortcomings in story originality. After 800-plus…
Comic Con Revolution 2021 in Ontario, California brings holiday cheer to SoCal fandom…
Comic Con Revolution Returns! While the COVID pandemic essentially cancelled last year for everyone (including myself), the sci-fi/comic book convention circuit has been slowly returning to something resembling normal (well, as ‘normal’ as we fans get, anyway). Just this year, I’ve already attended a couple of favorite conventions; the Las Vegas’ “55 Year Mission‘ convention…
Star Trek: Discovery, S4.5: “The Examples” aren’t easily given…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery’s 4th season, “The Examples,” is available for streaming now on Paramount+. Written by Kyle Jarrow and directed by Lee Rose, “The Examples” is, itself, a classic example of the intersecting A and B stories; a structure that became a staple of the Star Trek franchise…
Anne Rice (1941-2021) achieved immortality by reimagining the vampire tale…
Anne Rice (1941-2021) It was an awful way to begin my birthday, reading a news alert on my phone that a favorite author of mine, Anne Rice, had passed away following a stroke at the age of 80. The author, whose own fascination with immortality was realized through her vampires, witches and other godlike beings,…
Star Trek: Discovery, S4.4: “All Is Possible” puts Tilly to the test…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery is available for streaming, and “All Is Possible” focuses on trust and personal growth as we see Ni’Var (formerly Vulcan) tepidly questioning whether it should rejoin the Federation, and Lt. Tilly placed in command of Adira and a group of Starfleet cadets on a “routine…
Netflix’s “Lost in Space” reboot successfully ends its three-year run…
******JUPITER-2 SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!******* The final season of Netflix’s rebooted “Lost in Space” has successfully landed, and I’m pleased to say that the series’ third and final season is easily on a par with the confident storytelling of the second, and more importantly, the series ends well. On the whole, Netflix took a gamble with…
Star Trek: Discovery, S4.3: “Choose To Live” is about being there for others…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** This week’s episode, written by Terry Hughes Burton and directed by Christopher J. Byrne, sees Discovery and her crew return to Ni’Var, the planet once known as Vulcan (and childhood home to Michael Burnham) to investigate an ongoing space anomaly and chase down rogue space pirate nuns. While I enjoyed the episode…