*****ROCKET-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I feel the need to preface this review/analysis of 1977’s “Capricorn One” with a bit of personal opinion, since we live in an age where easily verifiable and demonstrable facts are currently called into question (i.e, the rise of Flat Earth and anti-vaccination movements). I am not, nor have I ever been someone…
Author: A Middle Aged Geek
I am a happily married, progressive-minded, middle-aged science fiction geek. My interests included photography, reading, movies, Halloween, and all kinds of nerdy-niche things. After months of prodding from my wife (and my friends), I decided to 'throw down' with a blog of all of my nerdiest of nerdly thoughts and musings... here's hoping you enjoy!
Teaser trailer for “Ahsoka” is unveiled at Star Wars Celebration 2023…
*****DEATH STAR-SIZED SPOILERS!***** As of this writing, “Star Wars Celebration Europe” is currently underway (April 7-10th) at ExCel London. While I’m not there personally, I’ve been lucky enough to have attended two Star Wars Celebrations here in California over the past decade, and they are wonderful. I hope every Star Wars fan attending in London…
Quantum Leap’s season one finale, “Judgment Day,” pushes the boundaries of the show’s mythology…
*****ZIGGY-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The first season finale of NBC’s reboot-continuation of “Quantum Leap” has aired, and it greatly expands the mythology of the show by breaking some of its earlier rules (sometimes the best way to fix something is to break it, right?). In a clever nod to “Back to the Future Part 2” (the dark-horse…
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (2022) feels a bit waterlogged…
As longtime readers of this column might’ve guessed, I’m a longtime fan of innovative sci-fi/action director James Cameron’s work. “The Terminator,” “ALIENS,” “The Abyss,”. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” and “Titanic” are all favorites of mine. Of the James Cameron canon, I’d say that 2009’s “Avatar,” Cameron’s groundbreaking study in CGI and motion capture, is probably…
Star Trek TOS: “Space Seed” (1967) yields a greater crop than what is sown…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** This column might get me in some trouble. While I certainly appreciate the legacy of the Star Trek’s Original Series episode “Space Seed,” which gave the Trek multiverse its power-mad villain Khan Noonien Singh, it is a clumsily-executed episode whose current reputation relies greatly on its legacy (namely 1982’s exceptional sequel, “Star…
Cosplay, Quantum Leap, and the Walking Dead: WonderCon 2023 wraps…
Welcome Back. Once again, WonderCon has returned to Anaheim, California and with COVID restrictions pretty much gone now (though I still wear masks), things feel a bit more back to normal. This year also saw a surprising championing of smaller or lesser-known movies and TV projects than in years’ past. Instead of a DC or…
A Movie Lover’s Dream; the Academy Museum…
The Academy Museum This week, my wife and I finally went where I’ve wanted to go since the place opened in September of 2021 (at the height of COVID, sadly); the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. The museum is by-appointment only, via their website or app, and parking is across the street…
Update for regular readers; a lot of fresh geeky content, coming soon…
This column is for regular readers/subscribers of this site, and don’t worry—it’s NOT bad news. Despite a lack of published content this week, this column is still going plenty strong. In fact, I’m taking a little breather this week, because I’ve got back-to-back events coming next week that I’m very eager to cover for this…
The legacy of “Mr. B.I.G,” filmmaker Bert I. Gordon (1922-2023)…
*****SUPER-SIZED SPOILERS!***** B-movie filmmaker Bert I. Gordon, who passed away on March 8th at the age of 100 (!), was a creator of giant creatures flicks whose very initials dictated the kinds of projects he’d become most associated with—movies about really big animals, birds, insects, people, etc. Bert I. Gordon was the man behind so…
Star Trek: Picard, S3.4: “No Win Scenario” gets its ship together…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** After a decent season opener (“The Next Generation”), the second and third episodes (“Disengage,” “Seventeen Seconds” ) of Star Trek: Picard’s third season were in danger of slipping into the same kind of story morass that defined the unsuccessful second season. However, this week’s episode turns near-death “into a fighting chance to live.”…
Retro-Musings: “When Worlds Collide” (1951) is a doomsday tale from an extinct era…
*****BELLUS-SIZED SPOILERS!***** In 1933, writers Edward Balmer and Philip Wylie wrote a pair of novels; “When Worlds Collide” and its sequel, “After Worlds Collide.” In the early 1950s, famed producer/director Cecil B. DeMille (“The Ten Commandments” 1923/1956 versions) sought to make them into a pair of movies, with only the former being made and released…
The Mandalorian, Chapter 17: “The Apostate” ushers in the third season…
******BANTHA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The third season opener for Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” is available to stream now. While Chapter 17 “The Apostate” isn’t quite on a par with the “Return of The Mandalorian” (an episode of the otherwise forgettable “The Book of Boba Fett”) it does manage to offer a few nuggets for Star Wars fans in…