Tracker first airs on 19 September, 2008. It was written by Carl Binder from a story by Binder and David Schmidt. McKay (David Hewlett) is looking forward to some alone time with Keller (Jewel Staite) when he accompanies her on a medical mission. He’s a little bummed when they are joined by Ronon (Jason Momoa)….
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A Knight’s Tale (2001) – Brian Helgeland
Making a film intentionally anachronistic can work, and A Knight’s Tale is really no better example. Using classic rock songs, modern language, which also filters into the styles and production design, A Knight’s Tale is a medieval take on the sports movie. And despite not having seen it for a couple of decades at this…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) – Steve Barron
I missed most of the TMNT craze while I was a teenager in Bermuda. While I was out in Halifax, tthe family I lived with had a son who was obsessed! He loved the cartoon, and I got to know some of it from that. I read some of the original Eastman-Laird black and white…
Smallville (2003) – Visitor, and Precipice
Visitor was written by Philip Levens and it debuted on 15 April, 2003. There’s a strange young man, Cyrus (Jer Adrianne Lelliott) at Smallville High, and Clark (Tom Welling) begins to believe he may be a fellow Kryptonian. When he elicits some abilities, and confides in Clark that he believes he is an alien, that…
City on Fire (1987) – Ringo Lam
Chow Yun-Fat is Ko Chow, an undercover cop caught in a City on Fire in Ringo Lam’s iconic piece of Hong Kong cinema. Ready to leave his undercover life behind, Chow is persuaded by Inspector Lau (Yueh Sun) to take on on last case. When an undercover cop ends up dead, Chow has to infiltrate…
Stargate: Atlantis (2008) – Whispers, and The Queen
Just when the Wraith couldn’t get any creepier they engineer zombie-like mutants, and Beckett (Paul McGillion is back!) and Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) find themselves under assault in a very horror-centric episode written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie. Whispers first debuted on 5 September, 2008 and sees Trek alumnus Nicole de Boer guest-starring. de Boer…
Get Smart (1967) – The Spirit is Willing, Maxwell Smart, Private Eye, and Supersonic Boom
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) have to dabble with the paranormal for information in The Spirit is Willing. First airing on 14 October, 1967, this episode was written by Arne Sultan. A seance needs to be conducted to get information from a dead informer. Wackiness ensues. Ann Ferris (Ina Balin) meets with…
Stargate: Atlantis (2008) – Ghost in the Machine, and The Shrine
Carl Binder penned Ghost in the Machine which first debuted on 15 August, 2008. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and his team are returning from a mission (flying monkeys ) when something happens to their puddle-jumper as they attempt to pass through the gate. Tumbling away into space, they find out what happened. Something is affecting their…
Heads of State (2025) – Ilya Naishuller
The thing that I found the hardest to believe in the action-comedy Heads of State, is the idea that the U.S. President could be compassionate, universally liked and form complete and coherent sentences. But I guess that says more about the reality of the world we live in than the film itself. Heads of State,…
Klute (1971) – Alan J. Pakula
I tuned in for Donald Sutherland, and stayed for the fantastic performance by Jane Fonda. So good in fact, that she took home the Best Actress Oscar. It’s a stunning turn, and she’s so good in it. Sutherland plays the titular Klute. John Klute, a detective. He’s trying to rundown lead on a friend who…
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