Defiance S01E02 – Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go

  Things getting increasingly shtako (hope I’m using that right) for the folks of the town of Defiance tonight. SPOILERS!!!! Nolan (Grant Bowler) settling into his role of lawkeeper with Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) as his second, is encountering problems already. One of the Castithans who ran during the battle with the Volge is taken to…

Our Man Flint (1966) – Daniel Mann

That didn’t take long. The 101 Action Movies list, currently has me in the swinging 60s, and it didn’t take long back then for American filmmakers to take on the super-spy genre, they’d already done it on television, but nothing could seem to take on the sheer popularity of the UK import of James Bond….

Orphan Black S01E04 – Effects of External Conditions

Wow. SPOILERS Below!! After last week’s episode amping up the mystery and the tension a bit, including the revelation that the hunter may in fact be another clone, Helena (Tatiana Maslany rocking yet another incarnation, this woman is truly amazing!). Tonight’s episode on Space kept it coming with some fantastic moments. With the hunt for…

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – Steven Spielberg

Welcome to 1982, one of the biggest years for number of science fiction films EVER! And an amazing number of good ones! In fact the next 5 titles being visited on the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list are all from 1982, and I saw all but one of them in the theater that year, and the…

Come Drink With Me (1966) – King Hu Hu Jinquan

The next entry on the 101 Action Movies knows kung-fu, and is also the first Asian film to show up on the list. From the famous Shaw Brothers comes this dazzling combination of martial arts and sword work. It’s a fun ride, though looking at it with the eyes of the 21st century, I would…

Bermuda International Film Festival – The Attack – Ziad Doueiri

The Bermuda International Film Festival screened The Attack last night, a gripping drama about a Palestinian doctor working in Israel. Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Arab working in a Jewish world, he’s a prominent and successful surgeon, has a beautiful wife, and friends. But when a suicide bomb claims the lives of 17…

Bermuda International Film Festival – The Network – Eva Orner

Screening last night at the Liberty Theater (seat A8 yet again) for the Bermuda International Film Festival was a brilliant documentary that had only screened at SXSW previously. The Network follows the first media group blossoming and developing during the continued growing pains that fill its home country, Afghanistan. The Mohseni family returned to their…