It’s Weir’s (Torri Higginson) birthday. Despite the fact that she wanted to keep it quiet, Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) knows, and after imparting a gift continues his exploration of the massive floating city. He, Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) and Ford (Rainbow Sun Francks) discover a lab, with an old woman in stasis, for ten thousand years! When…
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The Mummy’s Curse (1944) – Leslie Goodwins
The Mummy’s Curse feels like a wasted opportunity. Once again Lon Chaney Jr. seems to get short shrift without much to do in this installment of the Universal Monsters series. I have a couple of problems with this one. My first issue, this entry barely runs an hour and a good quarter of it is…
The Lost City (2022) – 4K Review
Paramount Canada brings home The Lost City on 4K today, the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum adventure comedy ventures over some familiar ground, but the chemistry and casting carry it through to make it an enjoyable romp. Commenting on fame, reading, what defines masculinity, and romantic expectations the film follows Loretta (Bullock) a romance adventure writer as…
Highlander III: The Final Dimension (1994) – Andrew Morahan
The one good thing about the third Highlander film is that it does away with the horrible second entry in a franchise that did NOT need to happen. For countless fans everywhere, there can be only one, and the diminishing returns on the sequels, no doubt caused by the horrible stories supports that. This story…
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) – Agatha Christie
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to check in on the writings of Agatha Christie, so I settled in to play a bit of the armchair (or lawnchair) detective as I enjoyed the first novel to introduce the other famous detective Christie was responsible for introducing to the world, Ms. Jane Marple,…
The Anomaly (2018) – Micheal Rutger
I stumbled across the name of this book on a search for something fun and scary to read. Intrigued by the idea, I snapped up a copy and blazed my way through it insanely quickly. This is the definition of a white-knuckle literary roller coaster. It’s a perfect beach read, or just something to read…
Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (1999) – Max McCoy
1934. The final Indiana Jones adventure set before the first trio of films is on the book shelf this week. It is also the shortest adventure in the series, not even breaking 200 pages, and the macguffin this time around is one created by the author, the Omega Book, though bases on things hinted at…
Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (1997) – Max McCoy
1934 This week’s book shelf sees me continuing to seek out adventure with one of my favorite heroes, Indiana Jones, in the third novel by Max McCoy. Having previously enjoyed McCoy’s two previous forays into action with the globe-trotting archaeologist, I was quite looking forward to some Nazi punching and delving into hollow Earth theories…
Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs (1996) – Max McCoy
1933 Indiana Jones, the globe-trotting archaeologist, sets out on his tenth novel adventure, and the second one by Max McCoy, and much like its predecessor, the author continues to show that he knows how to tell a fairly solid Indy story, marry it with history, mythology, and legend and tie it in to what has…
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher’s Stone (1995) – Max McCoy
Nicholas Flamel. The Philosopher’s Stone…. No, I’m not re-reading the Harry Potter books, at least not yet, I’m digging into the next Indiana Jones adventure. Coming two years before the first Harry Potter novel, Max McCoy’s first stab at an Indiana Jones story melds the legendary tomb of Hermes, and the enduring myth of alchemy,…
The Mind Reels 