A Bullet for Crockett, which aired on 15 April, 1988, gives us the only Miami Vice clip show. The new material was penned by Peter Lance and Micheal Duggan from a story by Dick Wolf. When Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) is critically wounded in a bust, the rest of the vice team, sit, worry and…
SpaceFlight: The Complete Story, From Sputnik to Curiosity (2019) – Giles Sparrow
Space. The Final Frontier… Ever since I was a child I looked up at the sky in wonder. This is an experience that I think everyone has shared, but only a few of us grow up with that sustained sense of awe through the rest of our lives. After my introduction to Star Wars and…
Insomnia (1994) – Stephen King
Every time I had read the blurb, or cover jacket for King’s Insomnia there was nothing about it that really caught my interest, nothing leaped out at me, and I was afraid that perhaps this one wouldn’t be enjoyable to me at all when I finally dug into it. I was delighted to be wrong….
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997) – A Time to Stand, and Rocks and Shoals
Station log: stardate unknown Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler pen the season six opener, that picks up shortly after the end of the events in season five. It first debuted on 29 September, 1997. Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and his crew, now without a station, as the Cardassians have reclaimed it, use a stolen…
Die, Monster, Die! (1965) – Daniel Haller
There are more mad scientist films to explore as I dig deeper into DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book, and Die, Monster, Die! is the next one up. Which is weird, because I didn’t really notice a scientist in the film. Based very loosely on H.P. Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space, the film plays…
Yellow Earth (1984) – Kaige Chen
The What Else to Watch list from DK Canada’s The Movie Book is always filled with great selections, and today I dig into selections following my screening of Raise the Red Lantern. Yellow Earth is a somewhat familiar tale, as it follows a young Communist soldier, Cuiqiao (Bai Xue) in 1939 China. He has been…
War of the Worlds (1989) – Epiphany, and Among the Philistines
The war continues this week as humans and morthren clash over possession of planet Earth. First up is Epiphany. Written by Greg Strangis, series creator and show runner, this episode first debuted on 2 January, 1989. There is a summit occurring between the U.S. and Russia and the aliens have a plot to cause a…
The Nutty Professor (1963) – Jerry Lewis
The next mad scientist film up for viewing in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book is this classic 60s comedy starring and directed by Jerry Lewis. I remember seeing this one when I was a kid, when our base theater used to have Saturday matinees and this was one of the titles I saw…
Star Trek: Voyager (1997) – Scorpion Part II, and The Gift
Captain’s log: stardate 51003.7 Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky pen the season opener that sees the Voyager crew making a deal with the devil, i.e. the Borg, for safe passage through their space, in exchange for information on how to stop Species 8472. First broadcast on 3 September, 1997, it also sees the introduction of…
Miami Vice (1988) – Badge of Dishonor, and Blood & Roses
Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) go after a group of cops that are robbing and murdering drug dealers in Badge of Dishonor and a homeless woman, Montana (Michele Shay) may be the key to trapping them. But she may not be all that she seems to be… just like the cops who are…
The Mind Reels 