Paramount Pictures plunges me further into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. First up is A Penny for Your Thoughts. Written by George Clayton Johnson, the episode premiered on 3 February, 1961. When bank clerk Hector B. Poole (Dick York) tosses a coin to a newspaper vendor it lands on its edge and…
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Toronto After Dark 2016: The Void – Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski
Isolationist horror with Lovecraftian overtones and readily apparent influences of both Clive Barker and John Carpenter; coupled with the school of less is more when showing the monster, combine in The Void. Toronto After Dark’s closing night film for 2016 at the Scotiabank Theatre. Let me get two things out of the way, as much…
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) – Chris Carter
The last episode of season 9, and the presumed end of the series before its relaunch in 2016 aired on 19 May, 2002, six years later Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are put into action again, and so am I as I investigate the cinematic entries for the Sci-Fi Chronicles book….
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) -Stewart Raffill
The Sci-Fi Chronicles continues to bring me a lot of fun films, and flashbacks to my youth. And now, I get to dive into some John Carpenter films, that’s the good news. The bad news is I’ve previously covered almost all the ones the book lists, so I had to leap forward to 1984, when…
It Runs In the Family, presented by Drayton Entertainment
If you missed its run at the Drayton Festival Theatre, the British farce, It Runs In the Family runs deliciously amuck on the King’s Wharf Theatre stagein Penetanguishene starting today, and running to the 27th. Written by Ray Cooney, and directed by Alex Mustakas, the farce is at its best when it reaches Howard…
Quantum Leap (1989) – The Color of Truth and Camikazi Kid
Sam (Scott Bakula) has more time-travelling adventures this week, when he leaps into a black man in the south in The Color of Truth. Written by Deborah Pratt, this award winning episode aired on 3 May, 1989. It’s 8 August, 1955, and Sam has leapt into Jesse, the chauffer for Miz Melny Trafford (Susan…
Magnum, p.i. (1987) – Murder By Night and On The Fly
It’s time for a classic noir whodunnit in the first episode up this week. Murder By Night originally aired 14 January, 1987 and was written by Robert Hamilton. This episode sees Magnum (Tom Selleck) as a private investigator in the 1940s, nosing around the murder of a newspaper publisher, Maxfield. All the familiar faces…
Magnum, p.i. (1986) – Way of the Stalking Horse and Find Me a Rainbow
Way of the Stalking Horse, which aired 20 February, 1986, and was written by Bruce Cervi, sees Thomas (Tom Selleck), taking on a case from a man, Dan Wolf (Morgan Steven) from the mainland, to find his father, whom he has not seen in twenty years. But when he digs into the case, and…
The A-Team (1983) – There’s Always a Catch and Water, Water Everywhere
Richard Christian Matheson and Thomas E. Szollosi penned the first episode up this week, There’s Always a Catch, which had an original airdate of 15 November, 1983. When B.A. (Mr. T) is injured, stepping on a nail, the rest of the team, as they attempt to elude Decker (Lance LeGault), who only seems to…
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Hand of Fear
This week’s story sees the TARDIS returning to Earth, and a departure of one of the most well-known companions. The Hand of Fear is a four-part story that was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and ran from 2 October to 23 October, 1976. The Doctor (Baker) and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) arrive in a…
The Mind Reels 