Somehow, this Rob Reiner film got by me for decades. I was lucky enough to nab a copy on blu-ray and was more than ready to dig into. As I watched it, it put me in mind of It Happened One Night. It’s a road movie rom-com. We get John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards,…
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Smallville (2004) – Facade, and Devoted
Facade was written by Holly Harold and debuted on 6 October, 2004. It’s his senior year, and Clark (Tom Welling) ignores Jonathan (John Schneider) and signs up for high school football, whose team has a new assistant coach, Jason (Jensen Ackles), Lana’s (Kristin Kreuk) new fella. That raises a number of ethical questions. We also…
Star Trek: Furlough to Fury (1976)
This was the first Star Trek comic I ever owned. Issue 40, Furlough to Fury. It was on shelves for September 1976. It was written by Arnold Drake, had art by Alden McWilliams, and had a cover by George Wilson. The splash page shows the Enterprise about to whether a giant cosmic storm, though an…
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) – Reginald Le Borg
Lon Chaney Jr. dons the bandages again in this short entry in the Universal Monsters collection. Kharis the Mummy (Chaney) is once again wandering New England, working to protect the body of his beloved Princess Ananka. It seems a new priest is on his way to America, Yousef Bey (John Carradine). He is supposed to…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Consciousness of Guilt, and Extracurricular Activities
Katsumoto (Tim Kang) turns to Magnum (Jay Hernandez) for help when a case he’s involved with falls apart during the trial, and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) wonders if she and Magnum spend too much time together and should see what it’s like when they spend a day apart. Consciousness of Guilt was written by Andre Jackson…
Family Ties (1989) – They Can’t Take That Away From Me: Part 1 and 2, and Rain Forests Keep Fallin’ On My Head
Marc Lawrence pens this two-parter, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, the first installment aired on 2 April, 1989. Lauren (Courtney Cox) has to go away for a conference for a few weeks, and Alex (Michael J. Fox) is teaching an economics class to complete his degree and graduate. While Jennifer (Tina Yothers) wrestles…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Charlie Foxtrot
Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) have their first real tiff, which is something that both regret when Higgins ends up in serious trouble. Out of Sight, Out of Mind was written by David Slack and debuted on 16 April, 2023. Magnum has to have a chat with Childs (Micheal Rady) about the events…
Family Ties (1988) – The Spirit of Columbus, The Blues Brother, and Read It and Weep: Part 1
Charles J. Schlotter pens The Spirit of Columbus which first debuted on 17 January, 1988. Alex (Michael J, Fox) sees an opportunity when Nick (Scott Valentine) sells one of his pieces at a flea market for $200. However, when Alex keeps pushing him to work harder and harder to churn out more pieces Nick begins…
Family Ties (1983) – Margin of Error, French Lessons, and I Gotta Be Ming
Alex (Michael J. Fox) gets in all manner of trouble in Margin of Error. Written by Michael Russnow it was first broadcast on 9 February, 1983. Alex is playing the stocks on paper every day for a school project, and he’s been making a theoretical killing. When he asks Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse (Meredith…
TIFF ’22: The Lost King
Director Stephen Frears guides Sally Hawkins’ quest for the burial place of Richard III. She takes on the real-life role of Philippa Langley, an amateur historian, who turned away from the established historical ‘facts’ of Richard III as a usurper and began a hunt for his final resting place. Based on Langley’s own book, which…
The Mind Reels 