Captain’s Log: Stardate 1312.4 The famed second pilot for the proposed series, Where No Man Has Gone Before was written by Samuel Peeples from Gene Roddenberry’s creation and found its way to the television sets everywhere on 22 September, 1966. This was an episode that I loved, and continue to love. It fostered the sense…
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Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) – The Man Trap and Charlie X
Captain’s Log: Stardate 1513.1 I was going to wait until I finished one of the other shows that I am watching for the blog before I dove into Star Trek, but the 50th Anniversary beginning in September, and the DK Canada book, The Star Trek Book on the The Book Shelf this week drove me…
American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes
The next title up in the Drama genre for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book is the Academy Award Winning American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes. The film went home with a Best Actor for Kevin Spacey, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay. Spacey plays Lester…
Hot Docs 2016: Beware the Slenderman – Irene Taylor Brodsky
Having its international premiere last night at the Lightbox, Irene Taylor Brodsky’s film is a slick looking, unnerving and surprisingly emotional look at the blurring of fiction and reality in the modern age, as two young girls, Anissa and Morgan succumb to the terrors and stories of the internet created character of the Slenderman,…
Magnum, P.I. (1981) – The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club & Thicker Than Blood
Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) is in for a lot of fun this week, as he has to face off against a curse, and then try to help a friend who is in way too much trouble! First up, is The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club, which was written by Babs Greyhosky and aired 19…
The Mind Reels 