Captain’s log: stardate unknown Chakotay (Robert Beltran) gets the chance to take the centre stage in this episode written by Micheal Taylor from a story concocted by Taylor and Micheal Sussman, that first aired on 17 January, 2001. Following an accident, Chakotay seems to be able to travel through temporal distortions that are plaguing the…
Tag: humour
Toronto After Dark 2019: The Odd Family – Zombie On Sale (2019) – Lee Min-jae
After the brilliant Train to Busan, how can Toronto After Dark possibly follow up? With another South Korean zombie film, which kicks off Zombie Night tonight at the Scotibank Theater, but this time infuse the blood, the undead, and the gore with a lot of humor in The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale. Wonderfully goofy,…
Star Trek: The Three Minute Universe (1988) – Barbara Paul
Space, the final frontier… I dug into another Trek novel this week, hey, there’s a lot of them, so they’ll probably be appearing on here fairly regular, I haven’t read this one since it first came out in ’88, and I don’t remember being a big fan of it when I first joined Captain Kirk…
The Enemy Below (1957) -Dick Powell
Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens headline the next film on the What Else to Watch list following my screening of Das Boot while exploring the very enjoyable The Movie Book from DK Canada. Mitchum, Murrell, is the captain of an American destroyer, the USS Haynes, in the South Atlantic during World War II, who finds…
Alfie (1966) – Lewis Gilbert
Micheal Caine is charming and roguish as the philanderer Alfie. Bill Naughton pens the script from his play of the same name. Popping up on the What Else to Watch list following my screening of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning for the very enjoyable The Movie Book from DK Canada. Breaking the fourth wall on…
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – Blu-Ray Review
After ten years, and eighteen previous films, the Marvel Cinematic Universe came together in a way that no other film series has done. Since 2008, with the introduction of Iron Man, Marvel has built upon each film, creating an interwoven reality, and hinting at a terrible threat to come. That threat has arrived. Avengers: Infinity…
Obsidio: The Illuminae Files Vol. 3 (2018) -Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The third and final book in the Illuminae Files has found its way to my book shelf and I delightedly dug in for the final adventure as the truth about the BeiTech company is brought to light as we return to Kerenza IV, in a final all-out, win-or lose gambit that sees the heroes, villains,…
Death Takes a Holiday (1934) – Mitchell Leisen
I continue my exploration of classic cinema with DK Canada’s The Movie Book, as I dive into the What Else to Watch list following my screening of the brilliant, The Seventh Seal. Death Takes a Holiday (remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black) stars Fredric March as Prince Sirki, a man who comes to visit…
The Seventh Seal (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
I love Max Von Sydow, and thanks to DK Canada’s The Movie Book, it was high time for me to dig into one of his most iconic roles in Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal. This was the first time I had sat down to watch it, and I won’t lie, it also put me in…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994) – Playing God, and Profit and Loss
Station log: stardate unknown Jim Trombetta and Michael Piller pen this Dax (Terry Farrell) episode that sees the Science Officer dealing with a Trill initiate named Arjin (Geoffrey Blake). It first aired on 27 February, 1994. Unfortunately for Arjon, Dax is nothing like the young man expects. He’s nervous, eager to please, and Dax is…
The Mind Reels 