These two entries in The X-Files, while solid, failed to engage me as the previous stories of the season, and the series did. It’s not for lack of performances, I just wasn’t captivated by them, and they both seemed to circle around concepts of revenge. Salvage was written by Jeffrey Bell, and first aired on…
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Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Talons of Weng-Chiang
This week we find the Doctor (Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) in London in the year 1899. Robert Holmes wrote this six-part fan favourite that originally aired from 26 February to 2 April, 1977. The story features some great and iconic bits, the Chinese Tong of the Black Scorpion, giant sewer rats, a strange…
Trailer Tracks: The Neverending Story (1984) Wolfgang Petersen
I remember this movie vividly, and the fact that I came across the original novel as well, which was not neverending, but did in fact cover more than the events of the first film. Petersen made a fantastic film here, filled with wonder and emotion, I mean who can forget Artax in the Swamps…
The Mind Reels 