Station log: stardate unknown Bradley Thompson and David Weddle pen this Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) episode that first aired on 6 January, 1999. The episode continues to demonstrate the differences between Ezri and Dax’s prior host, Jadzia. Sisko (Avery Brooks) is upset to learn that O’Brien (Colm Meaney) is missing after running down leads…
Category: Did You See That?!? (Tv & Film)
Rocketman (2019) – Blu-Ray Review
The fantasy biopic about musical legend (and one of my favorite artists) Elton John has come home on blu-ray and DVD thanks to Paramount Pictures. Taron Egerton who is bound to be nominated for an Oscar (or should be) IS Elton John in this jukebox musical that tells the musician’s personal history in a fantastical,…
Moonlighting (1985) – The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice, and My Fair David
Orson Welles, to whom the first episode this week is dedicated, makes his final television appearance as he introduces this unique episode of Moonlighting. Written by Debra Frank and Carl Sautter, the episode debuted on 15 October, 1985, and about twelve minutes into it, transitions to black and white. David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill…
Star Trek: Voyager (1998) – Thirty Days, and Counterpoint
Captain’s log: stardate 52179.4 Oh, Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), you were doing so well… and then this episode happened. Written by Kenneth Biller, from a story by Scott Miller, this episode debuted, just days before Star Trek: Insurrection opened in theaters, on 9 December, 1998. Tom has been busted down to ensign for disobeying…
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) – Blu-Ray Review
Kaijus are rampaging across home theaters this week as Warner Brothers’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters debuts on blu-ray and DVD. Despite being packed with an all-star cast including Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Bradley Whitford, Ziyi Zhang, Aisha Hinds, and Charles Dance, all you want to see is the legendary…
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) – Hayao Miyazaki
Following my screening of Spirited Away as recommended by DK Canada’s The Movie Book, I was delighted to move on to the What Else to Watch list and dive into a number of Miyazaki films I was aware of, but had never seen. Today, I dug into Laputa: Castle in the Sky. And found myself…
House On Haunted Hill (1959) – William Castle
William Castle’s horror classic, House on Haunted Hill is the next film in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book as I delve deeper into the chapter on ghosts. A group of strangers are summoned by Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) to have a party for his wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart). The location is a house…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008/2009/2010) – Cat and Mouse, Hidden Enemy, and The Movie
I’ve been trying to find a reason to give the Clone wars, and after I finished War of the Worlds I decided to scratch that itch. However, with this series I will not be watching them in broadcast order, but chronological order, as the first few seasons especially bounced back and forth through the Clone…
Topper (1937) -Norman Z. McLeod
Cary Grant headlines the first film I dive into as I hit the chapter on ghosts in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies. Played as a bit of a romantic comedy, the film is one I had never heard of, and I always enjoy settling in for a Grant picture. The suave leading man plays…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1998) – Covenant, and It’s Only a Paper Moon
Station log: stardate unknown Rene Echevarria pens this Kira (Nana Visitor) episode that first aired on 25 November, 1998. Colonel Kira Nerys is kidnapped by a cult that worships the Pah-wraiths. She is taken to the previously abandoned sister station of Deep Space Nine, Empok Nor. And on arrival she finds that their leader is…
The Mind Reels 