Life in the country isn’t what Andy (chevy Chase) and Elizabeth Farmer (Madolyn Smith Osborne) thought it was going to be. They are moving out of New York and settling into a small town, Redbud, so that Andy can work on his first novel. Unfortunately, life has other plans, and nothing goes right, from phone…
Tag: humour
Stroker Ace (1983) – Hal Needham
Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds made seven films together. I loved Smokey & The Bandit, I think Hooper is really well done, Cannonball Run is just goofy fun. And Stroker Ace? There was potential for sure, but even in 1983 some of the humor was rough, and in today’s world a lot of the jokes…
Supergirl (2026) – Craig Gillespie
Taking the bulk of its narrative inspiration from the comic, Woman of Tomorrow, Supergirl is a solid introduction to this new version of Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock). Piggybacking on the end of Superman, we see Kara in a red sun system celebrating her birthday week. Under a red sun, she doesn’t have her super-powered abilities…
Project Hail Mary (2026) – Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller
This film is one of my favourite films of the year and is definitely in my top ten of all time. I loved the book by Andy Weir when I read it, and this is one of the few instances where the film and the original source material complement each other brilliantly, and neither detracts…
Star Trek: #25 – Double Blind Part 2 (1986)
So how is Diane Duane going to get Kirk and the Excelsior crew out of the problems with the Ajir and the newly arrived Grond? We’ll find out in issue 25 of DC Comics’ ongoing Star Trek series. Available for April of 1986, the script was by Duane, and once again featured Tom Sutton on…
Battlestar Galactica (2007) – Razor
Before season four of Battlestar Galactica began, and we could start to dwell on the mystery of how Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) came back and what is going to happen with Baltar (James Callis) and the stunning reveal of four of the Final Five Cylons, Ronald D. Moore and his creative team went back in time….
Star Trek: #24 – Double Blind (1986)
Double Blind, a two-part story, was written by Trek author Diane Duane, with the first part being found on comic spinners until March of 1986. DC Comics’ ongoing Star Trek series continued to feature pencils by Tom Sutton and inks by Ricardo Villagran. The cover was done by Jim Starlin. Duane had written a couple…
One Crazy Summer (1986) – Savage Steve Holland
The mid-80s had Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, and I saw both of them innumerable times on home video. They were just so much fun, and they completely matched with my sense of humour. I hadn’t watched One Crazy Summer in years, so it was definitely time for a revisit, and damn if…
TIFF ’26: The Stunt Driver dir. Michael Dowse
There’s always time for some Canadiana at TIFF, and The Stunt Driver delivers it fantastically with lots of humour and great performances, and explores a small but fascinating corner of Canadian pop culture history that I had no clue about. In the late 70s, it seems everyone knew who Evel Knievel (Ben Foster) was. Heck,…
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020) – Second Contact, Envoys, and Temporal Edict
On 6 August, 2020, we were introduced to the USS Cerritos, a California-class Starfleet vessel, in the Star Trek franchise’s second animated series, Lower Decks. Written by the series showrunner, Mike McMahan, we are introduced to the crew as they go about conducting a Second Contact with the inhabitants of the planet Galar. Ensigns Boimler…
