Stargate: Atlantis (2008) – The Lost Tribe, and Outsiders

The big mid-season story concludes with The Lost Tribe. And it picks up right where the previous episode ended. The Stargate room explodes as the gate blew up. Todd the Wraith (Christopher Heyerdahl) ha seized the Daedalus and is heading for Atlantis, and Daniel (Michael Shanks) and McKay (David Hewlett) have discovered that the device…

Strange Houses (2025) – Uketsu

I liked Uketsu’s first book, Strange Pictures, and I liked the idea behind their work. Having said that, the second book, Strange Houses, is a stronger, more cohesive effort. The Author, and a friend find themselves caught up in a mystery when the floor plan of a house they come across seems to suggest some…

Stargate: Atlantis (2008) – Tracker, and First Contact

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)….

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…