Polaris 26

Polaris is a fan run convention and has been going solidly for 26 years. It is a quieter more intimate affair than the wondrous eye-dazzler that is Fan Expo. This year, Sue and I were offered media passes to the event thanks to the show’s head of media Evelina Kuczer, and were delighted to attend…

IDW Star Trek (Ongoing) – Issues 3 & 4 – The Galileo Seven

It’s hard to reinvent the wheel. It’s hard finding new ways to tell stories that people know already. And yet, IDW, with their new Trek series, set in the alternate universe created in the 2009 movie, seems to be doing a fine job with it. This time around, in issues 3 and 4, they revisit…

Star Trek The Bantam Years

The 1970s. Star Trek had finished its original run, and was garnering cult status in syndication, and fans were clamoring for more. This was a long time before Star Wars came along, and even longer before Paramount learned what a hot property that had. The short-lived animated series aired in the 73 to 74 season,…

The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning..

Star Trek: The Motion Picture gets a lot of flak, which is regrettable, as I quite enjoy it. People complained about it being slow and ponderous, and untrue to the original series. I have to disagree. Is the films slow moving? It could be construed as such, but I like to see it as getting…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) & Jekyll (2007)

  So after an amazing day yesterday, I settled in to watch another film from the 101 Horror Movies book. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Fredric March in the duel role. Two points – number one, I liked it. Number two, I didn’t like the name pronunciation, I’ve always grown up calling him Doctor…