Ronald D. Moore, who was a driving storytelling force behind Star Trek: The Next Generation, took Glen Larson’s beloved (but expensive) 70s television series and retooled it. He and his creative crew and cast delivered a proof-of-concept miniseries, which would introduce us to the characters and situations that would drive this incarnation. The miniseries aired…
Captain Ron (1992) – Thom Eberhardt
Kurt Russell lets out his goofy side in Captain Ron, which he made with Martin Short, and this makes for a wondrful pairing, and really lets Russell be silly and (mostly) charming. Short plays Martin Harvey. He and his family, wife Katherine (Mary Kay Place), daughterCaroline (Meadow Sisto), and son Ben (Benjamin Salisbury) are off…
The Mean Season (1985) – Phillip Borsos
As previously stated, I do love me a Kurt Russell film, I just think he’s a wonderfully cool actor, and I also like that there are so many of his films I have yet to run down. So when I came across The Mean Season which sees him playing a newspaperman involved in a cat-and-mouse…
Smallville (2005) – Onyx, and Spirit
It’s evil twin trope time on Smallville with Onyx. It originally debuted on 13 April, 2005 and was written by Steven S. DeKnight. LuthorCorp is experimenting with some kryptonite, developing black kryptonite, but the experiment goes sideways with Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) getting hit by some energy and being split in two – his good half…
Star Trek: #11 Deadly Reflection (1985)
The third part of the Mirror-Verse story was on DC Comic racks for February 1985. Mike W. Barr continues delivering a solid script, while Tom Sutton handles pencils, and Ricardo Villagran handles inks. The pair also deliver the issue’s cover. Stardate: 8217.2 The splash page shows the two Kirks confronting each other, with the Prime…
Tribe (2025) – Dan Asma
As I’ve previously said, in fact, I think everyone has found footage can be hit or miss. Tribe came up in my Facebook feed, and I figured, why not? There was something in it that caught my interest. For the most part, the film works; it stands up, but there are some pretty low-budget visual…
Taken (2002) – Taken
The ten-episode miniseries wrapped up on 13 December, 2002. Leslie Bohem attempts to give an explanation that will check all the boxes about alleged UFO sightings and alien abductions. Does it all work? No, because it tries to explain something that we may not be ready for, if any of the encounters are true. Charlie…
Get Smart (1970) – The Mess of Adrian Listenger, Witness for the Execution, and How Green Was My Valet
The Mess of Adrian Listenger first aired on 30 January, 1970 and was written by Chris Hayward. It’s baseball season, and the CONTROL team are all dead but for Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and the Chief (Edward Platt) and they begin to suspect one another. The pair are forced to work together, to find the…
The Dog Stars (2012) – Peter Heller
When I heard The Dog Stars was going to be Ridley Scott’s new film, it moved up to the top of my reading list. I almost wish it hadn’t. I didn’t not like it, but the event that occurs on third into the book kicked my ass, so much that I almost decided not to…
Taken (2002) – John
The penultimate episode of the Taken mini-series first aired on 12 December, 2002. Leslie Bohem continues delivering a solid script that picks up exactly where the previous episode left off. Looks like we’re on the end run of the series now. Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue) has entered the crashed alien craft, while General Beers (James…
The Mind Reels 