Frank Gorshin returns for another brilliant turn as The Riddler in A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away. Written by Fred De Gorter this episode was first broadcast on 16 February, 1966. When King Boris (Reginald Denny) arrives in Gotham City accompanying a priceless Queen of Liberty statue, the Riddler concocts a plan to…
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The Expanse (2021) – Force Projection, and Redoubt
Dan Nowak pens Force Projection which upon its end, will place us halfway through the final season of The Expanse. It first dropped on Prime on 24 December, 2021 and saw tensions rising up all over the system, as well as some interesting things happening on Laconia. The family we’ve been checking in on has…
The Expanse (2021) – Oyedeng, and Hard Vacuum
We are racing towards the conclusion of season five of The Expanse, and Oyedeng, written by Dan Nowak and first airing on Prime on 13 January, 2021, is an emotional rollercoaster. Alex (Cas Anvar) and Bobbie (Frankie Adams) are continuing their hunt for information and can prove that Martians are selling weapons to Inaros (Keon…
The Hateful Eight (2015) – Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino’s eighth film let him tackle the fringes of the western genre, and features a beautiful score by iconic composer Ennio Morricone. With his sharp ear for dialogue and engaging storytelling, Tarantino pays homage to the Italian Spaghetti Westerns and classic American films of the same genre, as well, apparently, to the 1982 classic Carpenter…
The Lone Gunmen (2001) – All About Yves
The short-lived spinoff from The X-Files, The Lone Gumen, aired its series finale, All About Yves, on 11 May, 2001 (though they aired The ‘Cap’n Toby’ Show after it – the series had already been cancelled). Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz, the episode sees Michael McKean’s Man In Black, Morris Fletcher,…
The X-Files (2001) – Deadalive, and Three Words
Series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz pen the first episode back for The X-Files after its month away, and it starts with a gut punch. Mulder (David Duchovny) us dead, and he’s buried. Deadalive first aired on 1 April, 2001, and it plunges us right back into the mythology of the series, as three…
Willy’s Wonderland (2021) – Kevin Lewis
Silly, goofy, and wonderfully over-the-top, the horror film, Willy’s Wonderland, is just a romp that doesn’t take itself, or the world it exists in very seriously, and it’s star, Nicholas Cage, doesn’t say a word through the entire film. His character, known only in the credits as The Janitor, is a bad-ass looking guy who’s…
Mission: Impossible (1968) – The Cardinal, and The Elixir
John T. Dugan puts the IMF team through their paces in this episode he wrote, The Cardinal, which first aired on 17 November, 1968. Phelps (Peter Graves) and his team are asked to sneak into a country behind the Iron Curtain (which looks amazingly like Southern California) and deal with General Zepke (Theodore Bikel), a…
The X-Files (1999) – Two Fathers, and One Son
The mythology arc spins up in a big way with Two Fathers. Written by series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, the episode first debuted on 7 February, 1999, and sees the return of Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright), the reveal to Mulder (David Duchovny), Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) that CSM (William B….
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) – Adam Marcus
New Line Cinema takes over the reins of the Voorhees series for the next three films, and for their first film, the creator of the original film, Sean Cunningham insisted on something different. Adam Marcus, who served as the film’s director, and one of the film’s writers definitely did that, and delivered one of the…
The Mind Reels 