*****BIONIC SPOILERS!!***** Back when I was a kid in the Stone Age, we had three TV networks, a few UHF stations, and pretty much nothing else. VCRs were not yet commonplace (they existed, but were super-expensive), and there weren’t yet DVRs or DVDs, let alone streaming. For video gaming, you had Pong and Atari. That…
Month: April 2022
A few thoughts on “The Batman” (2022)…
*****SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!***** The following column might put me in the doghouse with some readers, and, to be clear, I’m not trying to attack anyone’s personal favorite incarnation of Batman. I’m just seeking to give my honest, unfettered opinion of a movie that I waited a long time to see. That movie, of course, is…
Doctor Who: “Legend of the Sea Devils” never quite gets its sea legs…
****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!**** I really wanted to like this one. So help me, I was genuinely enthused at the prospect of seeing the Sea Devils (one of the coolest looking Doctor Who adversaries) back in action for the first time since the Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison eras (“The Sea Devils” and “Warriors of the Deep”,…
The director’s cut of “Dark City” (1998) is ‘tuned’ to near-perfection…
*****REALITY-BENDING SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Resetting Reality. The first I’d heard of director Alex (“The Crow”) Proyas’ “Dark City” was sometime in late 1997, where I might’ve seen the trailer and filed it away to be ignored later in my younger, stimulus-addled brain. Sadly, I was ‘one of those people’ who didn’t show this movie the proper…
Netflix’s “The Adam Project” (2022) doesn’t aim too high, and that’s okay, too…
A little late to this party, but I finally got around to watching Netflix’s “The Adam Project” a couple of weeks ago, and had planned to do this write-up a bit sooner, but the Oscars, WonderCon 2022 and a few other things got in the way. Anyway, here we are. *****SPACETIME SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Crowdpleaser director-for-hire…
The 4K Director’s Cut of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” finally beams down, via Paramount Plus…
“Thrusters ahead, Mr. Sulu. Take us out.” As longtime readers of this site know, I’ve already reviewed/discussed 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” several times, including a an anniversary theatrical screening in September of 2019. I am an unashamed fan (and occasional apologist) of this absolute gem of a sci-fi film. Directed by Robert Wise…
WonderCon 2022 is back in-person at Anaheim, after three years…
WonderCon Returns! Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, it’s been three years since the last in-person WonderCon was held at the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC), right across the street from Disneyland. The last two were virtual (i.e. online Zoom panels, prerecorded videos, online buying, etc), but sci-fi/fantasy conventions are one of those things that cannot…