The Breaking Point continues the story of Easy Company. They are still in the Ardennes Forest, preparing to defend the town of Foy from an impending German attack. And this is just one of the problems they faced. Written by Graham Yost, this episode was first broadcast on 14 October, 2001. Morale is at an…
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow (2025) – Bonnie Quinn
Cozy horror is apparently a thing. I was happy to dig into something unique and fun, and Bonnie Quinn delivers with the first book in her How to Survive Camping series. The book, and the series, started out as a collection of posts on the No Sleep forum on Reddit. The story centers around Kate,…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Final Cut, and Flight of the Phoenix
Final Cut first aired on 9 September, 2005 and was written by Mark Verheiden. A new journalist is on the scene, D’Anna Biers (Lucly Lawless). She’s doing a piece on the Gideon Incident. As seen in the episode Resistance Tigh (Michael Hogan) ordered supplies taken from the Gideon for the Galactica, and marines accidently opened…
Vertical Limit (2000) – Martin Campbell
I hated this movie when I saw it in the theatre, but figured I’d give it another chance, over twenty-five years later. I just couldn’t understand how Campbell could make two really great James Bond films, two fairly okay Zorro movies, but everything else… not so much. Is it me? Hence, the desire to check…
Striking Distance (1993) – Rowdy Herrington
Bruce Willis always seemed like an everyday guy in his film roles, and I think that’s why so many of us accepted him as a cop in seemingly every other film he made. Hitting a couple of years before his third outing as John McClane, Willis played Pittsburgh police officer Tom Hardy. He’s after a…
Smallville (2005) – Splinter, and Solitude
Splinter debuted on 10 November, 2005, and was written by Seven S. DeKnight. Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) asks Lana (Kristin Kreuk) to help him investigate the crashed spaceship that came down in the meteor shower. He also sends her a meteor rock in a box (or did he?), which Clark (Tom Welling) opens and has his…
Star Trek: #17 – The D’Artagnan Three
There’s a change in writer for this issue of DC Comics’ ongoing Star Trek series. I imagine Mike Barr needed a break after that eight-issue tale he penned. Writing the script for issue 17, which was on spinners for August of 1985 is L.B. Kellogg, Tom Sutton continues as penciller, and Ricardo Villagran is on…
Six Days Seven Nights (1998) – Ivan Reitman
I’ve always been a Harrison Ford fan, and I remember seeing this in the theatre when it came out and not quite loving it. There was a lot of stuff overshadowing it at the time, if I recall. Consequently, I haven’t watched it since it came on. But I felt now was the time. And…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Home: Part 1, and Part 2
Adama (Edward James Olmos) attempts to deal with the loss of twenty-four ships to Roslin’s (Mary McDonnell) religious ploy, leading them to Kobol, where they await Sarbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and the Arrow of Apollo. Home is a two-part story whose first episode debuted on 19 August, 2005. It was written by David Eick. A number…
Band of Brothers (2001) – Crossroads, and Bastogne
Crossroads was written by Erik Jendresen, dramatizing events from Stephen E. Ambrose’s non-fiction book exploring the 101st during World War II. This episode, first aired on 30 September, 2001, and is the halfway mark of the Tom Hanks (who also directs this episode) and Seven Spielberg produced mini-series. The main narrative of the episode follows…
The Mind Reels 