Pioneering Roles. Yesterday, February 24th 2022, was a particularly hard day. I woke to see the televised Russian invasion of Ukraine, watched as LGBTQ+ rights were squashed by Florida lawmakers, and, to top it all off, I’d heard that actress Sally Kellerman, a presence in TV and film for as long as I can remember,…
Month: February 2022
Retro-Musings: Demonic myths and ancient Martians meet in 1967’s “Quatermass and the Pit”…
*****SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** When I was a kid, there was a cool little sci-fi/horror flick I used to catch on TV all the time. The movie, known here in the States as “Five Million Years to Earth,” concerned London subway excavators who stumble upon a five million year-old Martian spaceship, unwittingly unleashing a deadly alien…
“The Book of Boba Fett”: The good, the bad and the ugly…
*****SPOILERS FOR “THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT!!***** Whose Book? Like many Star Wars fans, I was looking forward to DisneyPlus’ premiere of “The Book of Boba Fett” on December 29th of last year, and while “Stranger in a Strange Land” was a decent opening chapter for the series, it didn’t exactly ignite my rocket pack….
BBC’s haunting comedy “Ghosts” successfully raised my spirits…
****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!!**** On the advice of a British expat friend of mine, I decided to take a break from heavy sci-fi offerings of late, and take a look at the 2019 BBC series, “Ghosts,” which is currently on HBOMax, and which has (of course) already spawned a US remake. At 30 minutes each, with short…
An architect of dreams: Douglas Trumbull, 1942-2022…
The Architect. The movie industry lost a true legend this week. Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects producer and film director who revolutionized the art of motion pictures over the past six decades, succumbed to complications from mesothelioma at age 79. Visual effects were literally in Trumpbull’s genes, as his father, Donald Trumbull, worked on the…
Halloween in February: ‘CreepIEcon 2022’ comes to SoCal’s Inland Empire…
“Welcome To My Nightmare…” This past weekend, during a sunny but windy Southern California February, my favorite holiday of Halloween briefly returned to the month of Valentine’s Day. Long delayed due to the COVID pandemic, CreepIEcon 2022 (the “i” and “e” emphasized for “Inland Empire”) finally reached the Ontario Convention Center in the San Bernardino…
New poster for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” epitomizes Roddenberry’s ‘space western’ in a single image…
*****POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS***** Yesterday (as of this writing) a flood of rumors emerged regarding the slew of new Star Trek coming out this year; this month’s return of Star Trek: Discovery (Feb. 10th), the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard (March 3rd), more rumors of the long-gestating Star Trek…