“Our actions define our legacy.” The story arc of Jedi Master Krell (Dave Dennoy) comes to a conclusion this week with this episode penned by Matt Michnovetz. It originally aired on 18 November, 2011. Captain Rex (Dee Bradley Baker) and the rest of the 501st are shocked at Krell’s orders to execute Fives (Baker) and…
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Star Trek: Voyager (2000) – Flesh and Blood
Captain’s log: stardate 54315.3 The Hirogen return in this feature length episode that first debuted on 29 November, 2000 and was written by Bryan Fuller, Raf Green and Kenneth Biller from a story by Fuller, Green and Jack Monaco. The Voyager answers a distress signal from a Hirogen station only to find death and destruction,…
Green Zone (2010) – Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass who guided Matt Damon through The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, and later Jason Bourne guides the same actor through this war thriller that comes off the What Else to Watch list following my screening of The Hurt Locker as recommended by DK Books’ highly entertaining The Movie Book. Miller (Damon) is an…
The Hurt Locker (2008) – Kathryn Bigelow
Kathyrn Bigelow’s war drama, The Hurt Locker is the next big title in DK Canada’s The Movie Book, with an all-star cast, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lily, David Morse all led by a stellar, captivating performance by Jeremy Renner as Staff Sergeant William James. James is serving in Iraq as part of…
Moonlighting (1986) – The Man Who Cried Wife, and Symphony in Knocked Flat
Kerry Ehrin pens this week’s first episode, The Man Who Cried Wife, which aired on 30 September, 1986. When James Bower (Stephen Godwin) kills his cheating wife, Melissa (Patricia Duff) in a moment of rage, he buries her in the forest, in an unmarked grave. But when he starts receiving phone calls from her he…
Das Boot (1981) – Wolfgang Petersen
The next big title in DK Canada’s highly enjoyable The Movie Book is the Oscar winning German film Das Boot from prolific director Wolfgang Petersen. This has always been a great film, and I love that I got to settle in and watch this film play out on my screen (again). Set during World War…
The King of Comedy (1982) – Martin Scorsese
The next title on the What Else to Watch list in DK Canada’s The Movie Book following its recommendation of Taxi Driver is this Scorsese classic starring Robert DeNiro and Jerry Lewis. The film didn’t do well at the time, but I also remember it being marketed as a comedy and for me it was…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Apocalypse Rising, and The Ship
Station log: stardate unknown Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr pen the season five opener that sees Sisko (Avery Brooks) going to Starfleet Command with Odo’s (Rene Auberjonois) belief that Gowron (Robert O’Reilly), the leader of the Klingon Empire, is a changeling. Hearing this, and after some debate, Sisko is given the orders… expose…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Homefront, and Paradise Lost
Station log: stardate 49170.65 ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe pen this episode that first aired on 1 January, 1986. Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) returns to Earth after a terrorist bombing that occurs there is believed to have been the act of Changelings, which would mean the Dominion have completely infiltrated Starfleet, and pose…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Starship Down, and Little Green Men
Station log: stardate 49263.5 David Mack and John J. Ordover pen this episode that first premiered on 6 November, 1995. Inside a gas giant, Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) leads the Defiant crew on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with some Jem’Hadar ships that were attacking a Karemma ship.As the crew work to elude and outwit the…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – The Visitor, and Hippocratic Oath
Station log: stardate unknown Micheal Taylor pens this exemplary episode that first aired on 9 October, 1995. Tony Todd plays an adult Jake Sisko as we find ourselves in a temporal tale that is one of the best of the series. A young writer, Melanie (Rachel Robinson) knocks on an elderly man’s door, and we…
Miami Vice (1985) – Rites of Passage, and The Maze
Rites of Passage was penned by Daniel Pyne and first debuted on 8 February, 1985. The story finds Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) rekindling a romance with an old flame, when Valerie Gordon (Pam Grier), a fellow cop from New York, comes down to Miami in search of her sister, Diane (Tery Ferman), to save…
