Okay, it’s not a great film, but wow what a cast; Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George (who I’ve made no secret about the crush I have), a young Chloe Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols, and Philip Baker Hall. Best on the alleged true story, we are given yet another version of the story of the Luz family…
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The Future Was Now (2024) – Chris Nashawaty
1982. What a summer at the movies. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, E.T the Extraterrestrial, The Thing, The Road Warrior, Tron, Poltergeist, Blade Runner and Conan the Barbarian. Eight movies, all opening within weeks of each other, some on the same day, and a summer that brought geek culture into the mainstream in…
The Ministry of Time (2024) – Kaliane Bradley
Simon & Schuster delivers a charming new novel by Kaliane Bradley today, one that is wonderfully funny, heartbreakingly romantic, and all wrapped up in time travel. Set in England, a young British-Cambodian civil servant is promoted and recruited into a top-secret project and is shocked to discover that time travel is real. A number of…
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) – Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of the classic 60s series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which serves as a bit of an origin story for the series characters is uneven at best. What could have launched a fun franchise, that wouldn’t equal Mission: Impossible, but could have been a delightful theatrical tentpole fumbles as it proves unable to…
Mission: Impossible (1968) – The Diplomat, and The Play
Cinnamon (Barbara Bain) is missing from the first assignment this week as Phelps (Peter Graves) takes his IMF team back undercover to run a mission to make genuine U.S. defense information is actual erronous and fake. The Diplomat was penned by Jerrold L. Ludwig, and had an original airdate of 1 December, 1968. To make…
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) – The Vulcan Hello, and Battle at the Binary Stars
Captain’s log: stardate 1207.3 Bryan Fuller and Akiva Goldsman pen the teleplay for the series opener from a story developed by Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Disco premiered on 24 September, 2017, and the controversy began right away. The opening story is basic enough, setting up the premise, and reintroducing us to the pre-Kirk (by a…
Star Wars Made Easy (2017) – Christian Blauvelt
DK Canada unleashes the Force with their playful and entertaining Star Wars Made Easy. Positioning itself as A Beginner’s Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, for that rare person who has never seen any of the films, Vlauvelt’s book is a lot of fun, embracing the fun that is an inherent part of the…
The Mind Reels 