The Daleks are back in this week’s story written by Terry Nation and airing in 6 parts from 22 May to 26 June, 1965. It also, at the end of the story, sees the departure of Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) from the TARDIS as they finally find a way home. After their…
Orphan Black S04E04 – Governed As It Were By Chance
Tonight on Space, Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) decides to take the fight to Rachel. And who can blame her after the way the last episode ended with the car she and Daniel (Matthew Bennett) are in got totalled?! This week picks up right from that moment, and doesn’t let up for the entire run of the episode….
Trailer Tracks: All the President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula
Woodward and Bernstein, Redford and Hoffman. Watergate. Nixon. Journalism. Love this movie.
Black Narcissus (1947) – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The next recommendation from Great Movies – 100 Years of Film following Pandora’s Box, is this 1947 classic starring Deborah Kerr, based on Rumer Godden’s novel. A rundown palace, remotely positioned in the Himalayan mountains is the new location for a hospital and school to be run by a small group of nuns, led by newly commissioned Mother Superior,…
Trailer Tracks: Back To The Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis
Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love this movie, and after all these years there isn’t a thing in this that has changed my love for it. A fun time-travel story, a brillilant cast, including one of my heroes, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982/1983) – The Late of Sarah White & The Sultan of Swat
Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) flies into more danger with this week’s installment. The first episode, The Late Sarah White, aired 22 December, 1982, and was written by Bellisario, George Geiger, Mary Ann Kasica and Michael Scheff. When a telegram from the Phillipines arrives in the Monkey Bar, Jake, Corky (Jeff MacKay), Louie (Roddy McDowall) and company…
Trailer Tracks: The Right Stuff (1983) – Philip Kaufman
Kaufman shot this adaption of Tom Wolfe’s book about the beginning of the Mercury space program, interweaving it with the exploits of Chuck Yeager, into an epic three hour adventure about flilght, exploration and humanity. With a fantastic cast including Sam Shepard, Lance Henriksen, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff…
The Apartment (1960) – Billy Wilder
The Great Movies – 100 Years of Film recommendations following Some Like It Hot keep coming with this highly enjoyable romantic dramedy with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray and Ray Walston. It is also the last black and white film to win the Best Picture Oscar until Schindler’s List. Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a…
Trailer Tracks: Firefox (1982) – Clint Eastwood
Eastwood stars and directs this techno-thriller based on the novel by Craig Thomas, and was one of the first movies I was allowed to go and see on my own, when I was growing up. It still remains a great adventure, though some of the effects work in the last half of the film are very iffy by today’s standards. It’s…
Mr. Jones (2013) – Karl Mueller
Anchor Bay releases the latest effort from Karl Mueller, the writer of The Divide. Getting behind the camera this time, he provides a unique kind of found footage film that will leave some scratching their head once the second half of this short-running film hits. Penny (Sarah Jones from the sadly short-lived Alcatraz) and Scott…
The Mind Reels 