The Doctor (Hartnell), Stephen (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) find themselves in the Wild West, specifically the O.K. Corral when the TARDIS next lands in this tale written by Donald Cotton. Filled with a sense of fun, and a really bad recurring song, this story aired in 4 parts, A Holiday for the…
Month: July 2014
Trailer Tracks: Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
My favorite Ridley Scott film ever. The whole future noir thing, Harrison Ford, the dark gritty future… not so far off now…
La Dolce Vita (1960) – Federico Fellini
The strong recommendations from my viewing of Rules of the Game for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book continue with this beautifully made film. Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) is a journalist who runs all over Rome from evening to dawn collecting tabloid stories alongside his sometimes photographer Paparazzo (Walter Santesso). He’s a…
Trailer Tracks: The Rocketeer (1991) – Joe Johnston
I’ve always enjoyed the character of The Rocketeer, it’s high-flying adventure, and of course the era it was set in, so I was all for seeing the movie, and with a cast like Timothy Dalton, Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly (sigh), and Alan Arkin… I was in. Featuring a score by James Horner that I…
Airwolf (1984) – Echoes From the Past & Fight Like a Dove
Stingfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine) put the supercopter Airwolf through its paces in this week’s installment. First up is Echoes From the Past, which aired 3 March, 1984, and was written by C.R. O’Christopher. When a mercenary claims to have a lead on String’s brother St. John, Hawke finds himself…
Trailer Tracks: Ghostbusters (1984) – Ivan Reitman
Ahh, 1984… what a year. It was a big year for me. I relocated to Bermuda, and everything seemed to get that much cooler. And boy do I remember how cool this movie was, and continues to be! Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson taking on the paranormal? Does it get…
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) – Arthur C. Clarke
The final installment of Clarke’s Odyssey series is a stronger read than the previous entry, and features yet another character from the first novel. The solar system is easier to move around in now with advancements in engineering and spacecraft, and a ship recovers a body spinning in space, that of astronaut Frank Poole……
Trailer Tracks: An American Tail (1986) – Don Bluth
Don Bluth paired up with Steven Spielberg in the mid-80s to give us the story of a family emigrating to America, and how their son got lost along the way… Oh, and he’s a mouse, named Fievel.
The Rockford Files (1976) – The Fourth Man & The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
The third season of The Rockford Files got underway on 24 September, 1976, with The Fourth Man written by Juanita Bartlett. The phone gag features someone calling him about his found address book, not to worry, it’s in the mail, but one of the girls he has in it, he should be careful about….
Trailer Tracks: Aliens (1986) – James Cameron
Yet another sequel that holds its own with the original, and could be argued exceeds it… this trailer is fantastic, and doesn’t contain a single line of dialogue, but conveys all the tension, horror and action that we can expect when the film chestburts its way onto the screen…
The Mind Reels 