Hitting blu-ray and video today from Warner Brothers is the box office sensation Wonder Woman, the long overdue arrival of Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) to the big screen. Wowing in the theatre, the Amazon comes home with a gorgeous blu-ray that looks and sounds fantastic and puts your home theatre through its paces. Loved by…
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Batman: The Animated Series (1993) – The Demon’s Quest: Part II, Read My Lips and Fire From Olympus
The first epic season of Warner Brother’s fantastic animated series comes to a close this week. We pick up from last week’s post, with the conclusion of The Demon’s Quest, which aired on 4 May, 1993. Talia’s (Helen Slater) life hangs in the balance as it opens and Batman (Kevin Conroy) must confront Ra’s…
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) – Dreams in Darkness, Beware the Gray Ghost and Cat Scratch Fever
This week’s visit to Gotham sees three episodes that aired on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of November, 1992, respectively. Up first is Dreams in Darkness. The Dark Knight, Batman (Kevin Conroy) finds himself a prisoner of Arkham Asylum (though they respect his need for a secret identity), when he is infected with Scarecrow’s…
Batman Begins (2005) – Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale take over the reigns of one of DC’s greatest characters, Batman, in the next film to be watched for the Sci-Fi Chronicles book, and the last one to review, as I’ve reviewed Nolan’s latter entries into the trilogy before. On reflection this morning, as much as I like this…
Toronto Screenwriting Conference 2015: Day One
Sue and I have been very fortunate in our dealings with those folks involved in film and television here in Toronto. One of these have been the wonderful folk who are involved with the Toronto Screenwriting Conference, now going into its fifth year, and we’ve been lucky enough to cover the past two, and…
The Dark Knight (2008) – Christoper Nolan
The 101 Action Movies brings the second installment in Nolan’s version of the famous DC character, Batman, for me to rewatch. This one is epic, sprawling, with a vast cast, and a number of villains from the Caped Crusader’s Rogues Gallery, this time around we have appearances from Dr. Crane aka The Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy),…
The Mind Reels 