Coming hot on the heels of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Mike Myers and Jay Roach teamed up for a third outing of Austin Powers (Myers). Austin Powers in Goldmember is the biggest film of the three, and arguably the least satisfying, though still incredibly funny. It has a slew of cameos; in fact, the…
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From a Buick 8 (2002) – Stephen King
For some reason this Stephen King novel seems to keep slipping off my list, and I don’t know why. I stopped it sliding off this time, and dug into a creepy and fun novel that feels like it’s on the edge of other King stories without throwing you right in the middle of one. It’s…
Lilo & Stitch (2002) – Dean DeBlois, and Chris Sanders
Ahh, hand-drawn animation. Sometimes you just want to settle in and enjoy the beauty of artists at work, who bring stories and characters to life with pencils and paints, and imbue them with a life that completely enraptures you. Lilo & Stitch, the now classic and arguably iconic Disney film, does exactly that. It’s an…
Taken (2002) – John
The penultimate episode of the Taken mini-series first aired on 12 December, 2002. Leslie Bohem continues delivering a solid script that picks up exactly where the previous episode left off. Looks like we’re on the end run of the series now. Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue) has entered the crashed alien craft, while General Beers (James…
Taken (2002) – Dropping the Dishes
Lisa (Emily Bergl) and Charlie (Adam Kaufman) realize that Allie (Dakota Fanning) has saved them by taking them out of time and returning them two hours later, after Allie has agreed to go with Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue) and Wakeman (Matt Frewer). Dropping the Dishes, the eighth episode of the Leslie Bohem-scripted miniseries, which was…
Taken (2002) – God’s Equation
The Steven Spielberg executive-produced miniseries continued on 10 December, 2002 with the seventh episode of the ten-episode series. The episode, God’s Equation, was written, as all the rest have been by Leslie Bohem, and it moves the narrative to 2002. Charlie’s (Adam Kaufman) nightmares are becoming worse, even as he conducts interviews with possible alien…
Dark Blue (2002) – Ron Shelton
The more I think about it, the more I come to realize that Kurt Russell is one of my favourite actors. He also seems to be someone you just want to hang out with. I didn’t watch Dark Blue when it was originally released, but I remember seeing a whole slew of them on the…
Taken (2002) – Charlie and Lisa
Leslie Bohem’s UFO epic continued with its sixth episode on 9 December, 2002. It opens with the aliens arriving in a ship to reclaim the crashed vehicle from the Roswell crash over a bridge with both the Crawfords and the Clarkes as witnesses, amongst others, military and civilian. The climax of the last episode. Eric…
Taken (2002) – Maintenance
Leslie Bohem continues the UFO narrative in the ‘Steven Spielberg presents’ mini-series, Taken. This episode marks the halfway point of the show, and first aired on 6 December, 2002. The narrative moves into the 1980s. Eric Crawford (Andy Powers) has cemented his role as the head of the government’s UFO program, based out at Groom…
Taken (2002) – Acid Tests
Acid Tests moves Leslie Bohem’s Taken miniseries into the 1970s. Bohem guides the characters through another feature length episode that first aired on 5 December, 2002. We’re entering the era of crop circles, and Crawford (Joel Gretsch) is joined by his grown son, Eric (Andy Powers) and Marty (John Hawkes) as he investigates them. One…
