To regular readers, this one’s for you. First, I humbly appreciate your readership, and I’m grateful that this eight and a half-year old column receives an average of around or above 300 visits a day now. So, I just wanted to let regular readers and subscribers know that I haven’t fallen into a Mustafar lava…
Month: June 2025
Doctor Who: “The Reality War” says goodbye to Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor with a so-so sendoff…
******TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Actor Ncuti Gatwa blasted his way into Doctor Who lore following his pioneering ‘bi-generation’ from David Tennant‘s resurrected Doctor in “The Giggle,” the last of several Doctor Who specials from 2023. The returning Tennant’s three specials and Gatwa’s introduction marked the returns of producer Russell T. Davies, Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and classic…
“Predator: Killer of Killers” (2025) is a brilliantly realized animated anthology with a few weak spots…
******SLAYING SPOILERS!****** Directed by John McTiernan and cowritten by Jim & John Thomas, 1987’s action/adrenaline-soaked sci-fi flick “Predator” has led to some so-so sequels and a quasi-canonization within the “ALIEN” franchise. To be honest, I’ve only enjoyed the first movie and the last sequel, “Prey” (2022), directed and cowritten by Dan Tratchenberg. Everything in-between was…
25 years later, Disney’s “Mission to Mars” still fails to achieve escape velocity…
******PHOBOS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** 25 years ago, my wife and I went out for dinner and a movie with two married friends of ours to see “Mission to Mars” (2000); a Disney (nee: Touchstone) space opus directed by esteemed director Brian De Palma (“Carrie,” “Scarface,” “The Untouchables”), a screenplay cowritten by Graham Yost (“Speed”) with music by…
“Smile, you son of a bitch!”: Celebrating a half-century of “JAWS”…
******GREAT WHITE SPOILERS!****** Fifty years ago, in that long ago summer of 1975, eight-year old me was piled along with my siblings and parents into our family’s Volkswagen bus, headed to a local SoCal drive-in to see “JAWS”; the blockbuster flick from the as-yet-unkown Steven Spielberg (hard to remember a time when he wasn’t a…