I should have listened to my inner voice on this one. I couldn’t recall much of The Crystal Star as I hadn’t read it since it came out in 1994, but I remembered I didn’t care for it a lot. And that’s weird, because generally I like Vonda N. McIntyre’s work. She wrote the novelizations…
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Stargate SG-1 (2002) – Summit, and Last Stand
The Tok’ra come to Stargate Command with news of a Goa’uld summit, it seems a number of system lords, including Ba’al (Cliff Simon) Zipacna (Kevin Durand), Kali (Suleka Mathew), and Osiris (Anna-Louise Plowman) are getting together. And the Tok’ra have a plan to take them out. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, this episode…
Misery (1990) – Rob Reiner
I remember reading Stephen King’s novel for Misery, and getting caught up in the tension. The same happened the first time I watched Rob Reiner’s film version featuring an adapted script by William Goldman and featured James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall, and Frances Sternhagen. I hadn’t watched it since it first came…
Dreamcatcher (2003) – Lawrence Kasdan
I don’t know why this one didn’t work so well twenty years ago. Lawrence Kasdan (!) directs from a script he wrote with William Goldman (!), based on a novel by Stephen King (!) , a score by James Newton Howard (!) and a top-notch cast; Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, Morgan…
Farscape (2000) – Home on the Remains, and Dream a Little Dream
Moya is out of food, and the crew is starving. Zhaan (Virginia Hey) in particular needs to eat. She needs to eat meat to stop her budding cycle. She’s been spewing spores around the ship, and everyone seems to be allergic, except Aeryn (Claudia Black). Chiana (Gigi Edgley) leads them to a massive world-sized corpse…
Woman of the Hour (2023) – Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick’s feature film debut gives a chilling look at how women have to be aware of everything all the time, as she brings to the screen a true story of a serial killer and rapist, and his unlikely appearance on The Dating Game and may be the bachelor Sheryl (Kendrick) chooses from the three…
Stargate SG-1 (2002) – Proving Ground, and 48 Hours
When SG-1 is sidelined and O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is injured, a group of young SGC recruits will have to take action and retake Stargate Command- with some help and guidance from O’Neill. Written by Ronald Wilkerson this episode first debuted on 8 March, 2002. The episode opens with training exercises that re-introduces us to…
Northern Exposure (1993) – Duets, and Grosse Pointe, 48230
Ed (Darren E. Burrows) is delighted when his spirit guide, One-Who-Waits (Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman) returns, and reveals that he has finally found Ed’s father! Duets was written by Geoffrey Neigher this episode was first broadcast on 18 January, 1993. One-Who-Waits leads Ed to Pete (Gordon Tootoosis) who works construction and Ed signs up as…
Star Trek: My Brother’s Keeper Book Three – Enterprise (1999) – Micheal Jan Friedman
Friedman wraps up the My Brother’s Keeper trilogy with Enterprise. Captain James Kirk and his crew have returned to Earth for the funeral of Gary Mitchell. Kirk is still struggling with his role in Mitchell’s death, and is struggling with how he’ll present it to Gary’s parents. He goes to see them, while also welcoming…
Stargate SG-1 (2001) – Desperate Measures, and Wormhole X-Treme!
Carter (Amanda Tapping) is kidnapped by a medical team that has recovered a Goa’uld from the Russians, and O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Daniel (Micheal Shanks) and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) are racing against the clock to find her. Desperate Measures was written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie and it first debuted on 7 September, 2001….
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