It’s time to continue going boldy with the next installment in the Pocket Books non-canon Star Trek series. The next novel in the collection is The Covenant of the Crown. It’s special because its author, Howard Weinstein also wrote an episode of the Star Trek: Animated Series, The Pirates of Orion. This novel joins…
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The Emerald City of Oz (1910) – L. Frank Baum
It’s been a while, so I thought it was time to return to Oz, and check on Dorothy and the gang, in this, the sixth book, in the series. This was originally intended to be the last book in the series, and by the way it ends, with Dorothy’s message to Mr. Baum, it…
Issues Vol. 13
It’s a smaller week for the West End Comics pull list, but Kirk made sure to recommend a new title to me, and anyway, in just a couple of weeks, there will be a whole new Star Wars title, filling in some of the space between Jedi and Awakens… EXCITING TIMES! Welcome Back (Boom…
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) – Daniel Haller
As I continue my travel through the Sci-Fi Chronicles book, I was given the opportunity to revisit the incarnation of Buck Rogers that I was most familiar with. Released as a theatrical feature in March of 1979 as well as a television pilot, which led to a two season run, from Glen Larson, the mind behind…
Sleeping Beauty (1959) -Clyde Geronimi
The recommendations, which in this case are all for Disney films, after my screening of Snow White for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book continue with this 1959 classic that interprets the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty and brings it to animated life, with wonderfully stylistic animation, songs, and once again,…
The Rockford Files (1979) – Paradise Cove and Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs: Part 1
The sixth and final season of the adventures of private investigator Jim Rockford (James Garner) get underway this week, with this pair of episodes. Up first is Paradise Cove, written by Cannell, this one aired 28 September, 1979. The phone message to start the season off came from an environmental group telling Jim that…
Cabiria (1914) – Giovanni Pastrone
The first recommended title following my screening of Intolerance for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film is this epic tale set during the Punic Wars. Apparently the director of Intolerance, D.W. Griffith, was highly influenced by this film when he saw it, and created Intolerance to tell his own epic. The film…
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) – Raoul Walsh
With a tagline of Happiness Must Be Earned, the 101 Action Movies brings us this Douglas Fairbanks silent classic from 1924. Fairbanks, how is quite happy to eschew as many clothes as he can, cavorting about like Captain Kirk’s predecessor, plays Ahmed the Thief, who takes what he wants. He’s set his eyes on the…
The Mind Reels 