*****MOON-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Hammer Films, a British company reputed for their wonderfully grisly horror films (mainly Christopher Lee’s Frankenstein, Mummy and Dracula movies), hit their peak in the 1960s and made a few cult hits in other genres. These included such audaciously entertaining flicks as the late Raquel Welch’s dinosaur-cave people saga, “One Million Years B.C.”…
Month: February 2023
“The Orville: New Horizons” deserves a renewal…
*****QUANTUM-DRIVE SPOILERS!***** Charting a Course. Writer/producer/star Seth MacFarlane’s “The Orville,” which debuted on the Fox TV network in September of 2017, had a longer than expected hiatus between its second and third seasons, due to the chaos caused by the global COVID pandemic. When the series finally returned in June of 2022, it left Fox…
Star Trek: Picard warps into its third season with “The Next Generation”…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Star Trek: Picard (PIC) has been an uneven ride, to put it mildly. The first season had some interesting ideas, and a (more or less) satisfying conclusion, saddled with a meandering middle section, and some ill-conceived characters (looking at you, Narek and Narissa). What could’ve ended as a decent miniseries pushed its luck…
Star Trek TOS: “All Our Yesterdays” offers a star-crossed romance for Spock…
*****SUPERNOVA-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The third and final season of the original “Star Trek” (1966-9) (TOS) is often unfairly maligned in fandom for its drop in quality from the previous two. Yes, it’s true that creator/producer Gene Roddenberry took his hands off the wheel, along with a revolving door of producer/writers, including Gene Coon and John Meredyth…
Recurring Nightmare; CreepIECon Returns to the Inland Empire for 2023…
The Growing Horror… Last year, the city of Ontario, California hosted a horror-themed convention in February called “CreepIECon”, which was successful enough in its freshman year to take another stab at it in 2023. Having just returned from CreepIECon 2023 earlier today, it’s safe to say that by attendance alone, the convention has grown significantly…
“Blue Thunder” (1983) is an unsettlingly prophetic action flick…
*****TURBO SPOILERS AHEAD!***** I remember going to see the action movie “Blue Thunder” sometime in the summer of 1983, just before I began my junior year of high school. This was one of those ‘word of mouth’ flicks that a few of my classmates were buzzing about just before summer break, and upon seeing it,…