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“The Rocketeer”: Disney’s underrated retro-rocketing adventure, 30 years later…

*****SOARING SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** In the summer of 1991, I went to the famed El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood; a gloriously gilded movie palace hailing from a different era (originally built in 1926), beautifully restored and refurbished. This old glamour of the venue was a perfect way to see “The Rocketeer”; a retro-styled, period piece-adventure set…

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“Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” (2020) is not your father’s Life Day…

If At First You Don’t Succeed… 42 years ago, there was a great disturbance in the Force… CBS aired “The Star Wars Holiday Special” and it was arguably the worst thing to happen to the Star Wars universe before Jar Jar Binks. CBS and Lucasfilm created a shot-on-videotape variety special (which were insanely popular in…

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Recent Posts

  • Trouble in paradise: “Star Trek: Insurrection” (1998)… January 21, 2021
  • Marvel/DisneyPlus’ “WandaVision” is a bizarre homage to classic sitcoms… January 17, 2021
  • “The Rocketeer”: Disney’s underrated retro-rocketing adventure, 30 years later… January 12, 2021
  • Star Trek: Discovery, S3.13: “That Hope Is You, Part 2” ends season three with optimism and change… January 7, 2021
  • Netflix’s “The Midnight Sky” (2020) offers bleak escapism but with seeds of hope… January 4, 2021
  • Doctor Who: “Revolution of the Daleks” reunites the TARDIS fam… January 2, 2021
  • Star Trek: Discovery, S3.12: “There Is A Tide” to be turned… December 31, 2020
  • Diana loses some of her power in “Wonder Woman 1984” (2020)… December 27, 2020

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