******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I have major respect for director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo,” “Wall-E”), and I think he got a raw deal from Disney regarding publicity for his underrated “John Carter” (2012); the epic, though imperfect adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “John Carter of Mars” books. Stanton’s evolution from high-end Pixar classics to live-action movies has…
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Star Wars comes to Riverside, California with “The Inland Empire Strikes Back”…
“The Inland Empire Strikes Back!” Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, Riverside, California. Riverside, California is where I first saw “Star Wars” (years before it was subtitled “A New Hope”) at a long-defunct mall theater back in August of 1977, at age 10, and it changed my life (not to mention the very art of cinema) forever….
Disney+’s “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” blasts off from suburbia and gets lost in space….
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The first two episodes of Disney+’s “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” have debuted, and both were written by Christopher Ford and Jon Watts (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”). I knew going in that this Star Wars series was deliberately skewing towards a much younger demographic, since Disney seems hellbent on representing every age demographic separately these days…
Marvel’s “Agatha All Along” (2024) eases on down the Witch’s Road…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** Despite my continual kvetching that “I’m done with Marvel,” I find myself back in Disney+’s Marvel-lined pockets after watching their latest miniseries, “Agatha All Along,” the long-gestating offshoot of 2021’s uneven “WandaVision”; a miniseries I had mixed feelings on, despite its clever TV sitcom-sliding premise. “Agatha All Along” has been in development since…
Is “The Orville” returning for a 4th season? A definite maybe…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Rumor Control At the recent Creation Entertainment STLV convention (the convention also known as “Star Trek Las Vegas”), actor Scott Grimes, who played Gordon Malloy in “The Orville” said that the 2017-2022 Fox/Hulu/Disney+ series had indeed been picked up for a 4th season and was currently in preproduction. However, he was a bit…
BBC/Disney’s “Doctor Who”; a fourteenth series overview…
******TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** With new Disney money flowing into this 61-year old series, BBC’s “Doctor Who” just wrapped its 14th series/season—or 40th, if you’re a completist. A newly bi-generated Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) has a new (temporary) companion, Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson). Orphan Ruby’s arc was more or less completed at the end of the run. A…
Astronaut-artist Ed Dwight Jr., 90, finally gets his space shot, 63 years later…
The Right Stuff Denied Last weekend, something truly amazing happened. An event which did get some press, but not enough. Granted, in an age when when devastating wars, an intense US election season cycle, and other ongoing issues are dominating the news, a 90-year old African-American man taking a suborbital tourist spaceflight seems like a nice…
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” make the jump from hyperspace onto the big screen…
From AP News: A new ‘Star Wars’ movie is coming to theaters: ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu.’ There hasn’t been a Star Wars film in theaters since 2019’s “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker,” which received mixed reviews at best (personally, I thought it wasn’t too bad, despite some issues), which means this announcement…
Doctor Who Special #3: “The Giggle” wins the game…
After last week’s bizarre, creepy voyage to the end of spacetime (“Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) the third of three Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebration specials brings it home with the return of a classic Doctor Who villain (one not seen since the Hartnell era), a uniquely Doctor Who-style apocalypse, and of course, the introduction…
“The Haunted Mansion” (2023) finally gets the Disneyland ride juuust right…
*****SPOOKY SPOILERS AHEAD!***** First Time’s Not Quite the Charm… Before I get into 2023’s “The Haunted Mansion,” I wanted to drop a few lines about the first live-action version of “The Haunted Mansion,” which debuted 20 years ago (feels like both yesterday and forever ago). 2003 is a time when formerly R-rated comedy superstar Eddie…
Disney+’s “Ahsoka” (2023) gives a popular Star Wars character her own spinoff…
*****STAR DESTROYER-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The character of “Ahsoka Tano” first appeared in the animated Star Wars TV series “The Clone Wars,” the pilot of which was released theatrically in 2008. Having seen that feature-length pilot, I can tell you it was abysmal, and it put me off any chance of watching the series for most of…
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…