******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The Promise After a lot of speculation and advocation by fans like myself, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW) debuted in May of 2022 with one of the strongest pilot episodes of the nearly 60-year old Star Trek franchise. The SNW pilot, plainly-titled “Strange New Worlds,” was a tongue-in-cheek redux of director Robert…
Month: August 2025
2025’s Perris-Con in Riverside County, California offers a free mini-convention for Inland Empire sci-fi/comic book fans…
Return of the Newcomer Last year, the city of Perris, California, in Riverside County, held a small, free, mini-comics convention called Perris Fandom Con, which returned this year under the shortened name of Perris-Con. This free event, with free parking as well, was held on August 16th at the Perris City Hall building at 101…
The first two episodes of “Alien: Earth” deal with much more than xenomorphs…
******SPOILERS!****** Have to admit, I had more than a bit of trepidation going into this series. My parade of disappointments with the “ALIEN” franchise dates back 33 years with the the release of ALIEN3. Most of the franchise has existed in the shadow of its first two movies (“ALIEN,” “ALIENS”), rehashing variations of their simple…
Retro-Musings: “The Silent Star,” aka “First Spaceship on Venus” (1960) was an East German-Polish sci-fi flick that broke new ground…
******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!******* As a youngster, I remember being home sick from school once with a mild fever. I flipped through the limited number of broadcast stations on our family’s 25″ Zenith TV before collapsing on the couch. I came across a promising sci-fi movie on a local station called “First Spaceship on Venus,” originally titled…
Fourth time’s the charm for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (2025)…
******RETRO-SPACE AGE SPOILERS!****** As they say, fourth time’s the charm, and that couldn’t be more apt when describing the movies spun off from “The Fantastic Four,” a comic book created in 1961 by the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby that more or less launched the Marvel Comics brand. The comic book property was first…
“It Rhymes with Takei” (2025) is George Takei’s graphic memoir of adversity, love and making a difference…
******SOME SPOILERS****** Unlike most columns on this site, this one is about a book, not a movie or TV/streaming series. The book is “It Rhymes with Takei”; a new graphic memoir from famed Star Trek actor, political activist, author and playwright George Takei, who once again collaborates with coauthors Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and illustrator…