Glass (2019) – M. Night Shyamalan

Glass paired with Unbreakable and Spilt wraps up Shyamalan’s ode to comic books trilogy. It picks up a few weeks after the events of Split, and fifteen years after the Unbreakable. David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is running a security company with his son, Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark). He uses this as an opportunity to use…

Kindergarten Cop (1990) – Ivan Reitman

“It’s not a tumour!” It’s a catchphrase that found its way into the pop culture and has resurfaced over and over. And I never saw it originally. I was never interested in watching Arnold Schwarzenegger be funny. It just didn’t sound like a good time to me. So now, some thirty-plus years on, I finally…

Magnum P.I. (2021) – A New Lease on Death, and A Fire in the Ashes

Rick (Zachary Knighton) reveals to Magnum (Jay Hernandez) that Robbie (Devon Sawa) is on the run from a murder charge in Chicago and the feds want Rick to help bust him. While the group investigates Robbie with some help from Lia (Chantal Thuy), Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Magnum recruit Kumu (Amy Hill) to investigate a…

Dead Birds (2004) – Alex Turner

Henry Thomas, Patrick Fugit, Michael Shannon, and Mark Boone Junior all team up for a different kind of horror film. The group play a collection of Confederate soldiers who have just pulled off a bank robbery and are holing up at an abandoned plantation to wait things out. Unfortunately, they aren’t exactly alone on the…

The Equalizer (1989) – Lullaby of Darkness, and 17 Zebra

McCall (Edward Woodward) tries to saves the lives of a young girl, Mindy (Ellen Latzen) and her mother, Rebecca (mary-Joan Negro) from her abusive father, Joseph (Stephen Lang!) and her own imagination in Lullaby of Darkness. The episode was written by Coleman Luck and originally aired on 30 March, 1989. McCall is contacted by one…

War of the Worlds (1989) – Choirs of Angels, and Dust to Dust

The morthren have a new plan to immunize themselves against Earth’s bacteria that still proves a threat to them, and they are implanting a message in music to brainwash anyone who listens to it. Choirs of Angels was written by Durnford King, and first aired on 16 January, 1989. The focus of their musical plot…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Homefront, and Paradise Lost

Station log: stardate 49170.65 ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe pen this episode that first aired on 1 January, 1986. Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) returns to Earth after a terrorist bombing that occurs there is believed to have been the act of Changelings, which would mean the Dominion have completely infiltrated Starfleet, and pose…

Quantum Leap (1990) – Freedom and Good Night, Dear Heart

  Sam (Scott Bakula) engages in more time travelling adventure this week as he leaps into a young Native American, George Washaki in Freedom. This episode was penned by Chris Ruppenthal and aired 14 February, 1990. It’s 22 November, 1970, and Sam finds himself on the run with George’s grandfather, Joseph (Frank Salsedo), with an…