Comic legend Jeph Loeb pens Red, which first aired on 15 October, 2002. It also introduces a new variety of kryptonite to the series, one that has an adverse on Clark (Tom Welling), red kryptonite. It’s time for class rings and Smallville High, and everyone is happy to get them. What they don’t know is…
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Smallville (2002) – Tempest, and Vortex
Tempest closes out the first season of Smallville. Written by showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar from a story by Philip Levens, season one came to a close on 21 May, 2002. The spring formal is here, Clark (Tom Welling) and Chloe (Allison Mack) are headed out together. And there’s lots of other character stuff…
Smallville (2002) – Reaper, and Drone
Reaper is a different kind of freak-of-the-week episode. Written by Cameron Litvack, it was first broadcast on 23 April, 2002. Tyler Randall (Reynaldo Rosales) is at the local hospital, trying to see his ailing mother’s request for euthanasia to be fullfilled. Something he attempts to do himself. When he falls from the sixth floor and…
Smallville (2001) – Craving, and Jitters
Hey look! It’s Amy Adams in a fat suit! Craving first aired on 27 November, 2001 and was written by Micheal Green. Jodi (Adams) is a little overweight. She’s body shamed at school, though both Pete (Sam Jones III) and Chloe (Allison Mack) are there to help defend her. Clark (Tom Welling) is off getting…
Dead Alive (1992) – Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson’s wonderfully over the top gore fest horror comedy, Dead Alive aka Braindead is the next zombie title to stumble out of the catacombs of the zombie genre as featured in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Mocies book. By turns hilarious, and bloody, the film is so extreme in its kills, and it’s gore, in…
Daybreakers (2009) – The Spierig Brothers
The next entry in the vampire section of DK Canada’s very entertaining Monsters in the Movies book is a but of a unique tale. Set in the far future of 2019, vampires are the dominant life form on the planet after a virus has swept the world. Humans are dying out, and those that aren’t…
Orphan Black S03E09 – Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow
Orphan Black continues to kick ass and take names, and last night was no exception, in fact, they continue to up the ante. Their usual pace of story-telling is breakneck, so I honestly don’t know what to call this one, the penultimate episode pf the season, as it literally left me gasping for breath!…
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) – Robert Hamer
The Great Movies – 100 Years of Film brings me this English comedy I had never heard of before, starring Dennis Price and Alec Guinness. A tale of murder and woe told from the point of the killer seems like it may not be very funny, but this one proved to be very entertaining….
The Mind Reels 