******SILOS OF SPOILERS!****** Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) first came onto my radar with a rural Romeo & Juliet vampire film. No, not the “Twilight” movies; the good one, “Near Dark,” from 1987. Since then, her reputation has grown tremendously, with action films such as “Point Break” (1991), before her Best Director Oscar…
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Netflix’s “Terminator Zero” gives the 40 year-old franchise a fresh perspective…
******CYBERNETIC SPOILERS!****** I need to preface this column with an admission; I’m not the greatest fan of Japanese anime. Yes, I do enjoy some films of Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away”) and other random anime here and there, but by and large, it’s not a genre I’m especially drawn to. However, I have been a fan…
Netflix’s “Under Paris” (“Sous la Seine”) swims smartly between genuine action-horror and broad camp…
******SUMMER SHARK SPOILERS!****** I just did a column on shark movies with my recent rewatch of “JAWS,” but hey—it’s summer. And off and on since 1975, summer has meant summer shark movies. With the exception of Steven Spielberg’s legendary summer blockbuster “JAWS,” most shark flicks fall somewhere along the spectrum of disposable wastes of time…
The second season of “Star Trek: Prodigy” fires on all thrusters at Netflix…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After its unceremonious cancellation—and inexplicable removal—from the Paramount+ streaming service, “Star Trek: Prodigy” (PRO) has safely beamed down to Netflix, where it recently dropped its entire 20 episode second season for streaming on June 1st (nice not having to wait week-to-week for new episodes). I’ve long championed this underrated series, which is one…
Adam Sandler embarks on a space oddity in Netflix’s “Spaceman” (2024)…
******COSMODROME-SIZED SPOILERS!****** A Brief Synopsis Just saw a new Netflix movie called “Spaceman” (2024), starring Adam Sandler as a lone Czech cosmonaut named Jakub Prochazka who’s been sent to investigate a vast, mysteriously primordial “Chopra cloud” that’s wandered into our solar system and has been visible in the skies above an alternate Earth for the…
“Star Trek: Prodigy” safely docks at Netflix…
Some good news to relay on this Friday the 13th; Star Trek: Prodigy, my favorite series of animated Star Trek since Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-4), has found a new home with Netflix after its unceremonious and illogical removal from the Paramount+ streaming platform. Paramount+ was intended to be Star Trek’s one-stop place to…
Netflix’s “Wednesday” (2022) paints it black…
*****SPOOKY SPOILERS!!***** “They’re creepy and they’re kooky…” In 1964, monsters and horror were increasingly mainstream on broadcast TV, as evidenced by the popularity of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits.” CBS’s “The Munsters” and ABC’s “The Addams Family” attempted to cash in on this trend by upending traditional family sitcoms such as…
Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters” (2022) fails to reanimate…
*****SPOOKY SPOILERS!!***** The Munsters (1964-1966) The original TV series of “The Munsters” was a childhood staple of mine. I was a huge fan of the Universal Monsters (Wolf-man, Frankenstein’s monster, Mummy, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon) as a kid; I had the glow in the dark Aurora model kits, and Forry Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters…
Netflix’s “The Adam Project” (2022) doesn’t aim too high, and that’s okay, too…
A little late to this party, but I finally got around to watching Netflix’s “The Adam Project” a couple of weeks ago, and had planned to do this write-up a bit sooner, but the Oscars, WonderCon 2022 and a few other things got in the way. Anyway, here we are. *****SPACETIME SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Crowdpleaser director-for-hire…
Netflix’s “Lost in Space” reboot successfully ends its three-year run…
******JUPITER-2 SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!******* The final season of Netflix’s rebooted “Lost in Space” has successfully landed, and I’m pleased to say that the series’ third and final season is easily on a par with the confident storytelling of the second, and more importantly, the series ends well. On the whole, Netflix took a gamble with…
Star Trek: Discovery’s 4th season opens with a “Kobayashi Maru” scenario…
RE: PARAMOUNT+/NETFLIX DECISION I usually post spoiler warnings in most of these columns, but I’m doing so with a vengeance for this new season of Star Trek: Discovery reviews in light of a recent real-life controversy. Star Trek: Discovery, which is seen in the United States on Paramount+, CTV Sci-Fi channel in Canada, and on…
The ‘cold equations’ of Netflix’s “Stowaway” (2021)…
******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!******* 2021’s Space Odyssey. In a time where I’m still a bit pandemic-skittish about going back to cinemas, I decided to peruse my neglected Netflix queue when I came across “Stowaway”, a space flick released this past April. Starring Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air”), Toni Colette (“The Sixth Sense”), Daniel Dae Kim (“Lost”)…