Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson and Bill Paxton star in this fun sci-fi action film that plays like an alien war version of Groundhog Day. Cruise stars as Cage, a major in the American army, working as a media adviser, following the beginnings of an alien attack that has taken over most of Europe….
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War of the Worlds (1990) – Time to Reap, and The Pied Piper
There’s some cool stuff going on in Season 2 of War of the Worlds, and this episode may in fact be one of the best. Written by Jim Trombetta, this story, featuring some time travel, a science fiction standby, first debuted on 29 January, 1990. Nowadays, and even just a little after this episode aired,…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997) – Favor the Bold, and Sacrifice of Angels
Station log: stardate unknown Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler pen the next part in The Dominion War arc, that sees Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) developing a plan to retake the station, and wrest it from the joint forces of the Cardassians and the Dominion. Meanwhile, aboard the station Rom (Max Grodenchik) is charged as…
War of the Worlds (1988) – A Multitude of Idols, and An Eye for an Eye
As I dug into this week’s episode, I suddenly had a flashback to my youth that I had completely forgotten about. I, of course, set the home VCR to record each week’s new episode, and when a tape was full, I’d label it, put the titles on it, and use images from my Starlog to…
War of the Worlds (1988) – The Walls of Jericho, and Thy Kingdom Come
The war of the worlds truly gets underway this week as the aliens attempt to cement their position on the planet, and come up with a way to survive the radiation poisoning plaguing them (by constructing creepy looking suits). The Walls of Jericho was written by Forrest Van Buren (an alias, most likely for Greg…
War of the Worlds (1988) – The Resurrection
Back in 1988, a year after Paramount launched the Enterprise back into space with The Next Generation, they turned to another sci-fi property they owned, with the intentions of bringing it to the small screen in a weekly syndicated series. Serving as a sequel to the classic 1953 film, the series developed by showrunner Greg…
Doctor Who (Peter Capaldi) – Extremis, and The Pyramid at the End of the World
Extremis, one of my favourite Doctor Who episodes is up for viewing on the blog this week, and I enjoyed the experience of the revisit. Written by Steven Moffat, the episode debuted on 20 May, 2017. The Doctor (Capaldi) is still blind after the events of last week, but that doesn’t seem to stop him…
Annihilation (2018): Blu-Ray Review
Releasing from Paramount Pictures to blu-ray and DVD today is Annihilation a slow burn of a science fiction film from director Alex Garland. Based, subjectively, on the trilogy of novels by Jeff VanderMeer, it’s a gorgeous looking film A strange, possibly extra-terrestrial incursion in a swamp in Florida has claimed an untold number of teams…
Doctor Who (Peter Capaldi) – Flatline, and In the Forest of the Night
The Doctor (Capaldi) is trapped in an ever shrinking TARDIS, and it’s up to Clara (Jenna Coleman) to investigate an unnerving mystery in Flatline. Written by Jamie Mathieson this episode first aired on 18 October, 2014. Something very unnerving is going on, and people are disappearing, or perhaps just our perception of them. there’s a…
Authority (2014) – Jeff VanderMeer
The second book in the Southern Reach Trilogy finds its way to the Book Shelf this week as I dive further into the strange realm of Area X first introduced in the book Annihilation, which also serves as the title of the upcoming film adaptation. This sequel, released within months of the first book takes…
Doctor Who (Matt Smith) – The Impossible Astronaut, and Day of the Moon
Astronauts, the Silence, the Doctor’s (Smith) death, and some tons of temporal shenanigans launch the sixth series of Doctor Who with The Impossible Astronaut. The episode was written by Steven Moffat and first aired on 23 April, 2011. The Doctor after showing off in history to attract the attention of The Ponds, invites Amy (Karen…
Red Dawn (1984) – John Milius
The final recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Dr. Strangelove is John Milius’ dark and violent film, Red Dawn. With an all-star cast including Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, Powers Boothe and Harry Dean Stanton, the film chronicles an invasion…
