The first of the recommendations following Snow White for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film gets underway with 1953’s Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie’s tale of pirates, fairies, children who never grow up, and the boy who leads them comes to animated life in this Disney film. It’s fun, almost lighter fare than Snow White,…
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The Pinkertons S01E02 -Double Shot
Adam Moore’s and Kevin Abrams’ Wild West mystery series continues this week with its second episode. The series is still setting its tone and pacing, and maybe I’ve been watching too many mystery shows lately, but this one was easily resolved. On the upside, there is some nice character development and back story for…
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) – Vincente Minnelli
The next musical for me to watch from the Great movies – 100 Years of Film book for my viewing of The Jazz Singer is this Judy Garland classic, that has a lot of familiar songs that have now become standards. The year is 1904, the World’s Fair is a year off, but it’s…
The Rockford Files (1975) – Pastoria Prime Pick & The Reincarnation of Angie
Poor Jim Rockford (James Garner), he really gets into it in this week’s installment of The Rockford Files, which puts us about midway through season 2. The first episode, Pastoria Prime Pick aired 28 November, 1975, and was written by Gordon T. Dawson. The phone gag features Becker (Joe Santos) calling to thank Jim for…
Battlestar Galactica (1979) – Baltar’s Escape & Experiment In Terra
There are some interesting things afoot in this week’s viewing of the classic Battlestar Galactica. In the first episode, Baltar’s Escape, which aired 11 March, 1979 and was written by Bellisario, the series shows once again that, yes, there is a bit of continuity at play, as references are made back to the Beings of…
Hot Docs: Good Ol’ Freda – Ryan White
I became a Beatles fan in 1988, my junior year at Mt. St. Agnes academy, and I voraciously hunted down the albums on vinyl, I read books, and watched Help! and A Hard Day’s Night repeatedly. I had the music books for everything they recorded, but even then I knew I wasn’t the biggest fan,…
John Dies At The End (2012) – Don Coscarelli
Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep, yup, even Beastmaster… Don Coscarelli has always been a cult fave director, and he’s had my attention since 1982, when I saw Beastmaster on First Choice (on one of the free weekends). I remember as a kid sitting in my bedroom in CFB Borden, reading comics on my rug, and seeing an…
Westworld (1973) – Michael Crichton
20 years before we were welcomed to Jurassic Park, and things went sideways, Michael Crichton created another park, where you could see and do amazing things, it was called Delos, and there were three destination worlds held within it, yours for the enjoyment for $1000 a day. You can visit Roman World, Medieval World, or…
The Mind Reels 