Season Two of Magnum P.I. opens with another White Knight sequence from a Robin Masters’ novel, which Abby (Brooke Lyons) is reading but it doesn’t take long for Magnum (Jay Hernandez) to take a new case, something he chooses to do while Higgins (Perdita Weeks) decides whether or not she’s going to become his partner…
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Magnum P.I. (2018) – The Woman Who Never Died, and Six Paintings, One Frame
The third episode in the series introduces a new regular to the series, one that was created for the show, Kumu (Amy Hill). She is the estate’s cultural curator. And it introduces a re-imagined character from the original series, Luther Gillis played here by Ken Jeong. We also get a new HPD officer who becomes…
Magnum P.I. (2018) – I Saw the Sun Rise, and From the Head Down
Jay Hernandez took over the iconic role of private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum from Tom Selleck with the launch of the revitalized and updated series, Magnum P.I. Running for five seasons, it launched on 24 September, 2018 with the episode I Saw the Sun Rise. Written by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim the new…
Magnum P.I. – The Complete Series
After five seasons, the reimagined Magnum P.I. series has come to an end. Like I said a number of times, it wasn’t the original, it was its own thing, but tried to include nods, and tried to honor the 1980s original, but it was fun. Jay Hernandez made a great Thomas Magnum, and while some…
Allan Quatermain & The Lost City of Gold (1986) – Gary Nelson
Gary Nelson, who directed my beloved The Black Hole, directed the sequel to 1985’s King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain & The Lost City of Gold, which was filmed back to back with the first film. In fact, it steals a large portion of Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the first film as a way to save…
Family Ties (1985) – Family Ties Vacation
Season Four of Family Ties gets to a shakey start with a pretty terrible made-for-TV movie that sees the Keaton family jetting across the ocean to England. Taking the family out of their sit-com environment where they can deliver messages, and important themes, and delve into ethical situations and putting them in a slapstick version…
Witness (1985) – Peter Weir
It’s been some time since I had settled in for the Harrison Ford drama Witness directed by the amazing Peter Weir. I remember loving it as a teen when I first came across it simply because it was a Harrison Ford film. I loved movies at the time but I didn’t realize the film had…
The Assassin’s Curse (2017) – Kevin Sands
Simon & Schuster Canada continues to fire my imagination and sense of adventure with the third book in The Blackthorn Key collection which is now available on its own or as part of a gorgeous six-book hardcover collection available now! It’s the tail end of 1665 and the fact that apothecary apprentice Christopher Rowe and…
One Piece: Season 1 – East Blue, Part 1
It’s hard to know where to start with anime, and with it all laid out before you on a streaming service like Crunchyroll, even with suggestions, it can be a little intimidating. But at Fan Expo this year, an anime called One Piece seemed to be everywhere, so that looked like a good place to…
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Season 3 (2022) – Blu-Ray Review
I’ve been a fan of the Jack Ryan character since I first encountered him in 1985 when a friend of mine introduced me to him, he was reading The Hunt for Red October and I was intrigued by the plot and the characters. I was delighted when Paramount Pictures teamed up with Prime to deliver…
The Mind Reels 