Showcase was very kind over the Fan Expo weekend to let us sit in on the fantastic press event for their hit show, which they share with Syfy, Defiance. In the first of 3 interviews, this one features us chatting with the legendary Graham Greene, the lovely Jaime Murray, and the brilliant Nicole Munoz……
Fist of Legend (1994) – Gordon Chan
The 101 Action Movies brings us another classic, as Jet Li takes center stage in this martial arts stunner. A remake of the Bruce Lee classic, The Chinese Connection, Li is absolutely stunning in the title role of Chen Zhen, a Chinese student studying in Japan during the Japanese occupation of China. Receiving word…
Over My Head (Wildlings Book Two) – Charles de Lint
Before I talk about this book at all, I want to first say that I have not read the first book in the series, so I had to do a little mental catching up before I was able to get into the story as a whole. Luckily, however, the world de Lint has created…
The Mind Reels Chats with Orphan Black’s Dylan Bruce
Sue and I had a fantastic time at Fan Expo this year, and shot a bunch of interviews with the cast of Space and BBC America’s hit show Orphan Black, Defiance and Bitten! This is our first, a selfie taken with Dylan Bruce who plays Paul Dierden on the hit series Orphan Black!
The Newsroom S02E07 – Red Team III
Wow. This week we watch ACN’s News Night come apart as the Genoa story completely unravels, with witnesses recanting, doctored evidence, unknown factors that completely affect the story from different sources… Holy crap. Everything goes sideways right after they go to air, when the general (Stephen Root) Jerry (Hamish Linklater) interviewed and then ‘fixed’ the interview…
The Crow (1994) – Alex Proyas
The 101 Action Movies brings this dark, goth, ultraviolent actioner based on the comic by James O’Barr. A film now infamous for and overshadowed by the death of its lead actor, Brandon Lee, on-set, it is still, in fact, a wonderfully made film, taut in its script and characterizations, and brutal in its action sequences. Eric Draven (Lee) and…
Clear And Present Danger (1994) – Phillip Noyce
Jack Ryan in the person of Harrison Ford returns to the 101 Action Movies list along with Patriot Games director Phillip Noyce in this adaptation of the Tom Clancy techno-thriller. This time out Jack is serving as the acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA while his boss, Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones)…
Fan Expo Day 4
The great thing about going to cons with Sue Maynard is that we complement each other so well, just like on our show. She’s the schedule, I’m the map, and it works out brilliantly. As we went into Day 4 of Toronto’s Fan Expo, we learned that the key word for this year was…
Fan Expo Day 3
Saturday is undeniably the busiest day of the week at Expo, all those people who couldn’t get Thursday and Friday off work, and all those folks coming in on day passes flood in. The place was full, but for Sue and I, and the fact that the convention is spread over two buildings, it didn’t…
Fan Expo Day 2
So welcome to Day 2 of our annual Geekfest, which for Sue and I tends to be better than Christmas!! We saw lots of fun stuff today! And got to have some of our photo ops done, more on that in a second… There was some great stuff to be seen today (and cool filters…
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