I’ve Looked at Comic Con from Both Sides Now Returning to San Diego Comic Con (been doing these over 20 years now), I find every year’s experiences to be different. This year, for example, I was nursing a bad knee that’s facing eventual replacement. This led to me to get a first-time ever handicapped sticker…
Month: July 2025
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins season 3 with “Hegemony Part 2,” and “Wedding Bell Blues”…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After being renewed for its 4th and 5th seasons, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) has debuted the first two episodes of its third season, offering two radically different types of stories; a dark alien invasion drama and a wacky comedy. And if the season trailer we saw in April is any indicator,…
James Gunn’s “Superman” (2025) is a superhero movie for this age, though I wish it were more timeless…
******SUPER-SPOILERS!****** My wife and I just saw “Superman” (2025), and I’m going to try to keep this review a lot shorter than most, because it’s too early, and too many have yet to see the movie for one of this column’s usual deep-dives. That said, there will be some spoilers, so with that, let’s get…
Revisiting “Jurassic World” (2015) ten years later…
******T-REX SIZED SPOILERS!****** While I’ve not yet seen “Jurassic World Rebirth,” I sated my summer dinosaur cravings with a rewatch of 2015’s “Jurassic World,” which initiated the second wave of “Jurassic Park” movies; a franchise that began 32 years ago, and which refuses to go extinct. As a dinosaur fanatic from childhood who grew up…
“Open your mind!” 35 years of Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall” (1990)…
******TURBINIUM-RICH SPOILERS!****** It was on a June day in 1990 when my sister and I attended a matinee screening of “Total Recall” on opening weekend at yet another in a long line of multiplexes that no longer exist. As fans of director Paul Verhoeven‘s “Robocop,” we looked forward to the Dutch filmmaker’s latest American opus….
The first trailer for “Project Hail Mary” (2026) launches, and it’s spectacular…
******SUN-SIZED SPOILERS!****** As a fan of author Andy Weir (“The Martian”) since the mid-2010s, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his three novels to date, as well as his short stories. It’s safe to say Weir is one of the best sci-fi novelists working today. Each new book of his is an event. Given Weir’s information tech background,…