Irwin Allen. The name is automatically associated with the television series Lost In Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but he’s also inextricably linked with the disaster film sub-genre of action movies, and today’s film on the 101 Action Movies List, produced by Allen cemented the formula for the genre. The Poseidon…
Author: TD Rideout
Continuum S02E05 – Second Opinion
We get a bit of a bottle show this week for Continuum, as almost all of it seems to take place in the Vancouver Police Department, or in Alec’s (Erik Knudsen) new digs, supplied to him by Kellog (Stephen Lobo). Kiera (Rachel Nichols) is having a tough time, if she were in 2077, today…
The Book of Stolen Tales – D.J. McIntosh
Penguin Books Canada was kind enough to once again send us pre-release copies of a novel, in this case the new thriller from Canadian author D.J. McIntosh an author that could give Dan Brown’s popularity a run for his money. This is the second in her Mesopotamian Trilogy, and I will admit right now, I…
A Haunting At Silver Falls (2013) – Brett Donowho
Anchorbay sent a long a copy of A Haunting at Silver Falls for me to take a look at for its release this week. I like how Donowho approached it, aiming to make it more of a supernatural thriller as opposed to a “boo! scared you!” horror film. And it would have worked, if one…
The Getaway (1972) – Sam Peckinpah
The combination of the names Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen on this entry of the 101 Action Movies told me I would be getting something awesome, and The Getaway did not disappoint. And let’s just get this out-of-the-way, Ali MacGraw looks amazing in this film. I’ve always been a Steve McQueen fan, and my…
Orphan Black S01E09 – Unconscious Selection
It’s hard writing reviews for this show each week, because one runs out of ways to describe Tatiana Maslany’s stellar performances. She continues to stun and shine in every incarnation she embodies on the show, and this week was no different. In the season’s penultimate episode Alex Levine’s script puts Graeme Manson’s and John Fawcett’s…
Burlington Toy Con – June 2 2013!!
Sue and I were completely enthralled and taken in by our experience at the Burlington Toy Convention that we attended in March. We both love toys, and geek out over a lot of similar things, so we knew going in that we were going to have a lot of fun. But we honestly had no…
Five Fingers of Death aka King Boxer (1972) – Chang-hwa Jeoong
The 101 Action Movies brings another Shaw Brothers classic to my screen. It’s a fairly generic tale, yet for all that, it’s a lot of fun, and the fight sequences are exciting. There are glowing red hands indicating the power of the Iron Fist, there are eyeballs ripped from sockets with a music cue that…
Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi (1983) – Richard Marquand
This, of course, is yet another one of those movies that stays with me, I can remember where I was when I saw it, who I saw it with, and all the excitement that sprung up around it, filling my young life with, to that point, unparalleled excitement! George Lucas’ original trilogy comes to an end…
Le Dernier Combat (1983) – Luc Besson
I tend to like Luc Besson’s films, Leon, The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita… and of course he’s written and created tons of other things I’ve enjoyed as well, so I was very happy to take a look at this entry into the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list. The world seems to be a desolate…
