A Bullet for Crockett, which aired on 15 April, 1988, gives us the only Miami Vice clip show. The new material was penned by Peter Lance and Micheal Duggan from a story by Dick Wolf. When Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) is critically wounded in a bust, the rest of the vice team, sit, worry and…
Tag: dark
Miami Vice (1988) – Badge of Dishonor, and Blood & Roses
Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) go after a group of cops that are robbing and murdering drug dealers in Badge of Dishonor and a homeless woman, Montana (Michele Shay) may be the key to trapping them. But she may not be all that she seems to be… just like the cops who are…
Lost Highway (1997) – David Lynch
Porn, crime, tailgating, doppelgangers, murder, transmigration of the soul, and time travel all seem to play some part in the next title on the What Else to Watch list in DK Canada’s The Movie Book following my screening of Blue Velvet. David Lynch gives us another raucous ride as we meet Bill Pullman’s Fred Madison,…
Star Trek: Voyager (1997) – Fair Trade, and Alter Ego
Captain’s log: stardate unknown Andre Bormanis pens the teleplay for this episode from a story by Ronald Wilkerson and Jean Louis Matthias. This Neelix (Ethan Phillips) heavy episode first debuted on 8 January, 1997. As the Voyager begins to close on a region of space that Neelix is unfamiliar with, he turns to the aid…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997) – The Darkness and the Light, and The Begotten
Station log; stardate 50416.2 Ronald D. Moore pens the teleplay for this episode from a story by Bryan Fuller. It first aired on 6 January, 1997. Someone has Kira (Nana Visitor) in their crosshairs, and not just Kira, someone is systematically assassinating all the members of her Bajoran resistance cell. Playing as a bit of…
Wake in Fright (1971) – Ted Kotcheff
The next film, based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, is from the What Else to Watch list in DK Canada’s The Movie Book following its suggested viewing of Picnic at Hanging Rock. It’s a dark, violent tale that strips the civility and education of man away from him as he is plunged into darker…
Pet Sematary (1983) – Stephen King
This week’s great Stephen King re-read brings me the horror classic, Pet Sematary, which I read in the mid-80s, shortly after I had discovered the prolific writer. I remember greatly enjoying it, and being very unnerved by King’s riff on the famed horror story The Monkey’s Paw. This time around I was entertained by it, but…
The Undying Monster (1942) – John Brahm
The Undying Monster, the next werewolf title recommended by DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book by legendary directory John Landis is suitably moody, dark, gothic, and set in England – despite the fact that most of them speak with American accents. There’s an ancestral home, a curse, a pair of Scotland Yard investigators with…
Let the Right One In (2008) – Tomas Alfredson
DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies has not disappointed yet, though I admit some of the movies highlighted in the book so far have been less than stellar, I still had a great time watching them. Since starting this book, written by director John Landis, I’ve got to revisit my favorite vampire movies ever, been…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Hard Time, and Shattered Mirror
Station log: stardate unknown Robert Hewitt Wolfe writes the teleplay for this episode from a story by Daniel Keys Moran and Lynn Barker. It first aired on 15 April, 1996. This Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney) story is exemplary, and stunning, The Chief tries to integrate back to station life, and deal with implanted memories of…
