Stephen King knows how to tell a story and his short story/novella collections are always guaranteed to entertain. This one took me a while to get this one, but once I heard that the novella, If It Bleeds was a Holly Gibney story set after the events of The Outsider it raced up my to-be-read…
Batman (1967) – How to Hatch a Dinosaur, and Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under!
Stanford Sherman doles out another tale involving Egghead (Vincent Price) and Olga (Anne Baxter), and it first aired on 9 November, 1967. I don’t know if the series wrote itself into a corner with the previous episode, but this one picks up with Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward) and Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) all free,…
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – 4K Review
Rosemary’s Baby is still terrifying. Some fifty-five years on, Roman Polanski’s film, starring Mia Farrow, still packs a wallop, and what better way to celebrate its enduring legacy than a new 4k release of the film from Paramount Pictures? It’s been the better part of a decade since I last watched this film, and I…
Pontypool (2008) – Bruce McDonald
Bruce McDonald directs this unique take on the zombie film which was written by Tony Burgess, which he adapted from his own novel. The film is set predominantly in one location, the sound booth of a radio station, and features strong performances from Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, and Georgina Reilly. McHattie, who is always a…
Running Scared (1986) – Peter Hyams
Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal are Chicago cops who are toying with the idea of retirement and moving to Key West to run a bar in the buddy-cop film Running Scared. Director Peter Hyams was coming off some success following 2010: The Year We Make Contact and recruited the actors for he film, and other…
Hill Street Blues (1986) – Suitcase, and A Case of Klapp
The seventh and final season of Hill Street Blues began on 2 October, 1986 with the episode Suitcase. It was written by David Milch and John Romano from a story by Milch, Romano and Darrell Vienna. A small cub plane comes down near the precinct and someone gets away from it on foot with a…
UHF (1989) – Jay Levey
I discovered ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic with Eat It, and the first album of his I purchased was Dare To Be Stupid, which got played a lot. In fact, I know his song Yoda, better than the original on which it is based, Lola. In 1989, Yankovic wrote and starred in his only feature film to…
Batman (1967) – Louie the Lilac, and The Ogg and I
Batgirl’s (Yvonne Craig) horrible theme song is heard again as Louie the Lilac (Milton Berle) comes into Gotham City to mess around with the Flower Children movement, he plans to use his stupefying plant spray to bring them all under his power, and be able to control world events! Written by Dwight Taylor this episode…
Family Ties (1984) – Here We Go Again, Little Man on Campus, and Love Thy Neighbor
While Steven (Micheal Gross) takes the kids camping, Elyse (Meredith Baxter) has to stay at home and work and ends up getting some life-changing news. Here We Go Again was written by Ruth Bennett and Alan Uger and debuted on 27 September, 1984. Her doctor informs her that she’s pregnant. She has to deal with…
Making It So (2023) – Patrick Stewart
Whether Patrick Stewart knows it or not (I’m fairly sure he doesn’t) he’s been an essential part of my life since my formative teen years. He’s always been there in some form or another, and he’s helped me through a lot of tough times. A story he and his fellow castmates of that super popular…
The Mind Reels 