Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) is given bodyguard duty when he’s assigned to protect an Arabian Prince (Walker Edmiston). He and 99 (Barbara Feldon), who goes undercover in the harem, pair up with Agent 498 (Alan Oppenheimer), from the YENTA agency (a little jab at the Man From UNCLE, which aired on a competing network.) Of…
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Stargate: Atlantis (2005) – Hot Zone, and Sanctuary
McKay (David Hewlett), Ford (Rainbow Sun Francks), and Zelenka (David Nykl) are leading a team of scientists through Atlantis to make sure everything is operational after the events of the storm. Unfortunately, two of the scientists seem to be infected with a virus that kills them! McKay orders a self-regulated quarantine, while they try to…
Stargate SG-1 (2000) – New Ground, and Maternal Instinct
O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Daniel (Micheal Shanks) find themselves captured on a world where there is a struggle between religion and science. New Ground was written by Heather E. Ash and first debuted on 18 February, 2000. The planet is engaged in a philosophical war, which occasionally turns violent over the…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – The Retrieval, and Run with the Devil
Jin (Bobby Lee) is back in The Retrieval. Written by Gene Hong and Katie Varney, this episode first debuted on 1 November, 2023. Jin comes to T.C. (Stephen Hill) for some help when Jin’s ex-partner Bo (Kirk Fox) is released from prison, and wants his cut from a previous heist to pay for his protection…
Angel Has Fallen (2019) – Ric Roman Waugh
This time it’s personal. The second sequel in the ‘Has Fallen’ series is probably the worst of the bunch and lacks the scope of the first two films, and while there are a couple of interesting action sequences there’s nothing matching the scale of the previous entries. Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) is now the president, there’s…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Number One with a Bullet, and NSFW
Magnum (Jay Hernandez) is stunned to find out Buck Greene (James Remar) is dead and wants an autopsy because he doesn’t believe he killed himself despite the evidence recovered on the body. He is increasingly motivated to figure out what is going on, and what happened to his former CO. T.C. (Stephen Hill) provides some…
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) – Patrick Hughes
Ryan Reynolds leads a pretty solidly packed cast in a fairly paint-by-numbers action film that despite its predictability is a lot of fun, largely in part because of the casting. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Gary Oldman, Richard E. Grant, and Joaquim de Almeida. That’s some pretty top-drawer talent, and they all look…
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 3: Fire (2007) – The Awakening, The Headband, and The Painted Lady
The Earth Kingdom has fallen to the Fire Nation, and things are in a dark place for Team Avatar as Book 3: Fire gets underway. Written by Aron Ehasz, the third and final season began on 21 September, 2007. Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen) has been out of it for a while. He’s grown some hair,…
Hill Street Blues (1986) – I Come on My Knees, and Say Uncle
I Come on My Knees first aired on 6 November, 1986 and was written by David Milch. There’s a lot going on in this episode, and once again the silly melodrama has been pushed aside. Sure there are fun character moments, but as a whole the series seems to be determined to finish incredibly strong….
Unlawful Entry (1992) – Jonathan Kaplan
Kurt Russell, Madeline Stowe and Ray Liotta star in this early 90s thriller that puts three stellar actors into a halfway decent script and hopes that their charisma and charm will see it through. For the most part, it succeeds, not least of which because they are all great actors. Russell and Stowe are Michael…
The Mind Reels 