Lamberto Bava stepped out of the director’s chair for Michele Soavi, but remained heavily involved in the production alongside Dario Argento. It was originally supposed to be a third entry in the Demons series, but Soavi wanted to make a slightly more elevated picture, and Demons 3 was forgotten to tell a different kind of…
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Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 3: Fire (2007) – The Runaway, The Puppetmaster, and Nightmares and Daydreams
Toph (Micheala Jill Murphy) and Katara’s (Mae Whitman) relationship becomes even more strained, when Katara disapproves of the group’s way of making some fast cash, scheming local con artists out of their money by using their abilities, and even doing some con work themselves. After much bickering, the pair come up with a way to…
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,…
Magnum P.I. (2019) – Payback for Beginners, and Honor Among Thieves
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…
Family Ties (1987) – Love Me Do, The Visit, and Matchmaker
While Steven (Michael Gross) is planning a surprise birthday party for Elyse (Meredith Baxter) in Love Me Do, Skippy (Marc Price) falls for one of Mallory’s (Justine Bateman) classmates, Amy (Sonia Curtis). Written by Marc Lawrence this episode was first broadcast on 30 April, 1987. It’s fun to see Skippy happy and that the relationship…
Magnum P.I. (2019) – Blood in the Water, and The Day It All Came Together
The penultimate episode of season one of the reimagined Magnum P.I. was written by Gene Hong, and first debuted on 25 March, 2019. While T.C. (Stephen Hill) deals with the imminent arrival (and then non-appearance) by his father, with lots of needling from Rick (Zachary Kingston) and Shammy (Christopher Thornton), Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins…
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth (2006) – Tales of Ba Sing Se, Appa’s Lost Days, and Lake Laogai
Tales of Ba Sing Se is a fun little episode, especially coming after the reveal of the last episode. It’s a collection of short vignettes that delve into the adventures of our various characters around the city. The episode first aired on 29 September, 2006, and has five segments. The Tale of Toph and Katara…
Edenville (2023) – Sam Rebelein
I love a good horror novel, and I often find myself cruising best of lists to find something that catches my interest and haven’t heard of. Apparently in October of last year, I missed a stellar horror release by Sam Rebelein. Combining folk, cosmic and body horror, Edenville pulled me in and completely enraptured me…
Deadpool (2016) – Tim Miller
Ryan Reynolds was made for the role of Deadpool, the Marvel meta-merc. His appearance as the character in Wolverine: Origins was horrible, and this is nothing but redeeming, and insanely funny. While the film is an origin story, showing how Wade Wilson (Reynolds) became Deadpool, it also knows to make fun of itself and origin…
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…
The Mind Reels 