Howard Weinstein delivers his first Next Gen novel with Power Hungry. Set squarely in the second season of the series, Weinstein shows that he has a pretty solid handle on the characters, and explores an environmental theme that sounds very familiar to the way we are treating our own planet. The Enterprise is on a…
Tag: 1989
The Church (1989) – Michele Soavi
Lamberto Bava stepped out of the director’s chair for Michele Soavi, but remained heavily involved in the production alongside Dario Argento. It was originally supposed to be a third entry in the Demons series, but Soavi wanted to make a slightly more elevated picture, and Demons 3 was forgotten to tell a different kind of…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Strike Zone (1989) – Peter David
Peter David delivered his first Star Trek novel with Stroke Zone. Originally planned to be a novel in The Original Series catalogue, it was changed and updated to take place near the beginning of season two of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher is at Starfleet Medical, Dr. Pulaski has taken over as the…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Survivors (1989) – Jean Lorrah
The fourth novel in The Next Generation series from Pocket Books is set between the events Arsenal of Freedom and Skin of Evil and gives Tasha Yar more story time than she received in her only season on the show. It also fills out some of her backstory, and while nothing contradicts the established canon,…
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Micheal Myers (1989) -Dominique Othenin-Girard
So it was bad enough that Carpenter delivered a script he didn’t believe in that made Micheal Myers/The Shape into Laurie Strode’s brother in Halloween II. Then things got worse when they continued with the Myers tale in Halloween 4 by introducing little Jamie (Danielle Harris) as Micheal’s niece and new target upon his return…
Road House (1989) – Rowdy Herrington
Patrick Swayze plays Dalton, a lethal but zen bouncer in the cult-favorite, Road House, which also features the famed blind Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey as the bar band of the Double Deuce. Dalton is hired by Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to help change his bar, the Double Deuce, into something a little more profitable. It has…
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…
Atomic Blonde (2017) – David Leitch
Charlize Theron is here to kick ass in Atomic Blonde and she does, and does it well. Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, Atomic Blonde is a spy-thriller that features some solid stunt and fight work, the majority of which Theron, much like Keanu Reeves for John Wick did as much of as…
The Punisher (1989) – Mark Goldblatt
The same year that Micheal Keaton donned the cowl and became the iconic Batman for a generation, Dolph Lundgren brought Marvel’s dark antihero, Frank Castle, to life in the low-budget adaptation of The Punisher. If I say ugh will that be enough? Lundgren has never been known for his thespian abilities, and in a role…
The Equalizer (1989) – Endgame, and Suicide Squad
Endgame is a tale of manipulation, and revenge, and seems to almost sneak up on the fringes of Saw territory, as the episode finds two sisters pitted against one another. Written by Coleman Luck, the penultimate episode of The Equalizer aired on 10 August, 1989, well after the season should have finished in May. McCall…
