Anna Kendrick’s feature film debut gives a chilling look at how women have to be aware of everything all the time, as she brings to the screen a true story of a serial killer and rapist, and his unlikely appearance on The Dating Game and may be the bachelor Sheryl (Kendrick) chooses from the three…
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Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Holiday, and Serpent’s Song
While on a mission, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) gets body-swapped with an ancient inventor Ma’chello (also Shanks), but that’s just the beginning of the problems . Ma’chello takes over Daniel’s body, and just uses it as an opportunity to take a reprieve from life, and travel around the city. But when Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and…
TIFF24: Vice is Broke dir. Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang, a chef and former Vice host lays out the horrible truth of Vice, and Vice Media’s rise and fall when it declared bankruptcy. Intent on getting his residuals, Huang went after Shane Smith, one of the co-founders who alongside Gavin McInnes (yes that Gavin McInnes) built the company up, and then fell victim…
Stargate SG-1 (1997) – The Enemy Within, and Emancipation
While O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) argues to get Teal’c (Christopher Judge) assigned to SG-1, Kawalsky (Jay Acovone) struggles to keep control as the juvenile goa’uld within him seizes more domination over him. Written by Brad Wright, this episode was first aired on 1 August, 1997. Kawalsky checks in the the doctors, complaining of headaches, and…
Spiritwalker (2020) – Yoon Jae-keun
Hitting digital, DVD and Blu-Ray today from Well Go USA Entertainment is this Korean bare-knuckle action flick with some sci-fi undertones that keeps things moving right until the last frame. The film gives a new spin on familiar territory, and features solidly constructed, and executed action and fight sequences. Ian (Yoon Kyesang) isn’t who he…
The X-Files (2016) – My Struggle, and Founder’s Mutation
Eight years after the second feature film, I Want to Believe, and almost fourteen years after the season nine episode, The Truth, The X-Files returned to screens with a six episode limited series, now christened Season Ten. And while I Want To Believe may not have been the film fans wanted (hoping for more on…
Frost/Nixon (2008) – Ron Howard
I love a film that depicts journalism taking on truth seeking and corrupt politicians. Perhaps in some corner of the multi-verse I’m a newspaperman, who knows… So when Ron Howard dramatised the incredible confrontation between Richard M. Nixon (Frank Langella) and host David Frost (Micheal Sheen) I was there from the get go. Then the…
Narbos Guide to Being a Broomhead (2020) – Pat Mastroianni
Last year in June of 2019, fans from around the world descended in a buzz of excitement and nostalgia on the Westin Toronto Airport hotel for an intimate weekend with the cast and creators of the iconic Canadian series Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High. Passionate fans came from as far away as Russia and…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1999) – Field of Fire, and Chimera
Station log: stardate unknown Robert Hewitt Wolfe pens this Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) episode that first aired on 10 February, 1999. There’s a murderer aboard the station, and the bodies are piling up. To understand, and to solve the crimes, Ezri summons the memories and the personality of one of the Dax symbiote’s most…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Indiscretion, and Rejoined
Station log: stardate unknown LeVar Burton directs this episode from a script by Nicholas Corea, from a story by Toni Marberty and Jack Trevino. It first aired on 23 October, 1995. Kira (Nana Visitor) and Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) go after a Cardassian freighter, the Ravinok, that disappeared six years ago. It served as a…
The Mind Reels 