The Least Dangerous Game was written by Garrick Bernard and debuted on 1 September, 2022. While Boimler (Jack Quaid) makes some big choices for his career (saying yes!), Mariner (Tawny Newsome) finds herself questioning Ransom’s (Jerry O’Connell) his leadership and away team structure while they are on a tropical planet. Billups (Paul Scheer) and Rutherford…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks (2021/2022) – Wej Duj, First First Contact, and Grounded
Wej Duj, Klingon for ‘three ships,’ was written by Kathryn Lyn and was the penultimate episode of season two. It debuted on 7 October, 2021. A Vulcan ship and a Klingon ship have troubling encounters with another starship, and the Cerritos may be next in line. But first, it’s rather quiet on the Cerritos as…
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2021) – The Spy Humongous, Where Pleasant Fountains Lie, and I, Excretus
The Spy Humongous debuted on 16 September, 2021. It was written by John Cochran. The Pakled situation is continuing to be a minor problem for the Federation. So the Cerritos and Captain Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) are sent to work on negotiating a peace. Things are complicated by the arrival of a Pakled on the Cerritos…
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020/2021) – No Small Parts, Strange Energies, and Kayshon, His Eyes Open
The first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks came to an end on 8 October, 2020 with No Small Parts. It was written by series creator Mike McMahan and it sees the crew take on a familiar enemy, and deliver lots of Trek deep trivia cuts. The weird toy from the 60s, The Spock Helmet…
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020) – Moist Vessel, Cupid’s Errant Arrow, and Terminal Provocations
Moist Vessel continues to show that Trek can do comedy and animation right, and still be Trek. First airing on 27 August, 2020, it was written by Ann Kim and continues to move our characters forward in their narrative arcs, with lots of deep cuts and humour. The Cerritos is investigating a long-lost generation ship…
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…
Batman: Hush (2019) – Justin Copeland
The DC Animation adaptation of Hush by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee is a solid piece of work and attempts to walk a balancing act between the established canon of the animated films, and the comics. There are also a lot of layers at work throughout the course of the film, something that doesn’t happen…
The Equalizer (1988) – The Child Broker, and Video Games
This week’s episode, The Child Broker, boasts a bevy of recognizable guest stars, Sam Rockwell, Jerry O’Connell, Frank Whaley, Max Casella, Lycia Naff and Anthony LaPaglia. Written by Mick Curran this episode debuted on 20 January, 1988. McCall (Edward Woodward) and Harley (Richard Jordan) are contacted by Irene Winters (Mary-Joan Negro) to help her son,…
Mission to Mars (2000) – Brian De Palma
Director Brian De Palma delivers what feels like his spin on Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, unfortunately the shoddy and very obvious CGI in a number of the sequences of the film, and especially during the climax when a practical effects would have served better, and leant a stronger reality to the film, which needed…
The Canadian Screen Awards Red Carpet
The Canadian Screen Awards were last weekend, and Sue and I had a great time catching up with friends, and new folk alike. Below is the collection of interviews we garnered on the red carpet. Check it out!
