******SPOOKY SPOILERS!****** As a little kid in the early-to-mid 1970s, I remember watching a movie called “Gargoyles” on late night TV starring Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt as an father-daughter research team investigating demonic winged creatures in New Mexico. The movie ran just over an hour (a European theatrical cut ran only slightly longer, at…
Month: November 2024
Superman & Lois, E4.07: “A Regular Guy” is anything but…
*****SUPER-SPOILERS AHEAD!***** In February of 2021, I wrote my observations on “Superman & Lois” as the show was in its freshman year, and while I haven’t chronicled it since, I’ve enjoyed it, nevertheless. It’s one of the few series I still watch on Ye Olde TV set, via my DVR cache, and sometimes I forget…
HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy” debuts with all the palace intrigue, but none of the adventure…
******SANDWORM-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’m a modest fan of the “Dune” franchise. I read Frank Herbert’s first book ages ago, and I have some knowledge of its many sequels and prequels. I’ve seen all the live-action incarnations of “Dune,” including 1984’s “Dune,” 2000’s SyFy “Dune” miniseries, its 2003 sequel “Children of Dune” (a miniseries that combined the…
Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” ten years later…
******GARGANTUA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In November of 2014, my wife and I took a friend of ours to see director Christopher Nolan’s then-new space opus “Interstellar” in a massive IMAX 65mm presentation. This was not some all-digital ‘faux MAX’ screening you see in multiplexes today; this was honest-to-goodness, several freaking stories-high IMAX 65 mm film. I could…
Tony Todd (1954-2024); the “Candyman” who trekked to the stars…
This has been a very tough week. For reasons I don’t want to get into now, I wasn’t intending to write anything at this time. In fact, I was in the middle of a much-needed break. But then I read that actor Tony Todd passed away, and it was my motive to exit my ennui…
Taking a brief break…
Just letting regular readers and subscribers know that I’m taking a brief break; hopefully no more than ten days to two weeks. There is a lot of drama going on here in the United States right now, particularly on whether or not our fragile democracy is going to continue past this week, and to be…