Taken (2002) – Taken

The ten-episode miniseries wrapped up on 13 December, 2002. Leslie Bohem attempts to give an explanation that will check all the boxes about alleged UFO sightings and alien abductions. Does it all work? No, because it tries to explain something that we may not be ready for, if any of the encounters are true. Charlie…

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…

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…

Evil Dead Rise (2023) – Lee Cronin

Lee Cronin wrote and directed Evil Dead Rise a nice new spin on the classic horror franchise that promises the ultimate in grueling horror. As much as I love the originals, and Bruce Campbell, I love that the new films have eschewed some of the comedic elements and really leaned into the brutal gore and…