After all the heavy stuff of the past few episodes it’s time for the TARDIS to encounter something that is just plain spooky and doesn’t have the weight of the universe on it. Consequently Mark Gatiss penned this episode, based on his fear of dolls. The episode first aired 3 September, 2011. The Doctor (Smith), Amy…
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Coco (2017) – Lee Unkrich, and Adrian Molina
A fiesta for the heart, and the souls. Coco is another proud feather for Pixar, and the House of Mouse. Pixar, since its first full length feature, Toy Story in 1995, has made some of my all time pieces of not only family entertainment, but heart-touching tales filled with humour, amazing art, brilliant stories and…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990) – Transfigurations, and The Best of Both Worlds Part I
Captain’s log: stardate 43957.2 Rene Echevarria penned the penultimate episode of Season 3, which first aired on 4 June, 1990. A wounded survivor is located on a planet, during the medical emergency, Geordi (LeVar Burton) is connected with the being, referred to as John Doe (Mark La Mura) and an energy discharge has a bit…
The Twilight Zone (1963) – A Kind of a Stopwatch, The Last Night of a Jockey, and Living Doll
There’s the signpost up ahead, it’s time to take a turn into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray thanks to Paramount Pictures. Up first is the Rod Serling scripted, A Kind of Stopwatch. The series creator adapted a story by Michael D. Rosenthal and debuted the episode on 18 October, 1963. Patrick Thomas…
Scarface (1983) – Brian De Palma
A story of greed wiping out any trace of humanity, and the dark side of the immigrant story, Brian De Palma’s update of the classic gangster 1932 film remains a staple of the genre as I return to the Thriller & Crime section of the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film. Al Pacino plays…
Pinocchio (1940) – Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Ben Sharpsteen
DK Canada’s The Movie Book invites me to continue my exploration of early Disney films following its recommendation of What Else to Watch for my screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This time it is Walt’s incarnation of the classic tale of the little wooden boy who wanted to be human, Pinocchio. The…
Ultimate Lego Star Wars (2017) – Chris Malloy, and Andrew Becraft
Lego, Star Wars, much like chocolate and peanut butter, some things just belong together. Lego has become inextricably tied to everyone’s childhood, and some of us leave it behind when we step towards that thing called adulthood, others will always have a love for it, and sometimes a massive collection to go with it. When…
The Twilight Zone (1963) – Passage on the Lady Anne, and The Bard
Season four of The Twilight Zone comes to a conclusion this week with these two episodes as I continue exploring The Complete Series on blu-ray, currently available from Paramount Pictures. First up this week is Passage on the Lady Anne. Written by Charles Beaumont this story first found its way to television screens on 9…
The Mummy (1932) – Karl Freund
Somehow in my exposure to the Universal Monsters, and classic films I had missed this Boris Karloff classic that allowed the Mummy (Karloff) to join the ranks of such classic monsters as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Now, thanks to DK Canada’s The Movie Book,…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – The Enemy, and The Price
Captain’s log: stardate 43349.2 David Kemper and Michael Piller bring us another strong Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) story with The Enemy. This one first aired on 6 November, 1989, and further cemented Season Three as the season when things really came together. Arriving at the planet Galondancor in response to a distress signal, the…
The Mind Reels 