The more I think about it, the more I come to realize that Kurt Russell is one of my favourite actors. He also seems to be someone you just want to hang out with. I didn’t watch Dark Blue when it was originally released, but I remember seeing a whole slew of them on the…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994) – Tribunal, and The Jem’Hadar
Station log: stardate 47944.2 Avery Brooks directs this episode from a story by Bill Dial that sees O’Brien (Colm Meaney) stuck in a Kafka-esque nightmare when he seized and arrested by the Cardassians, purportedly for working with The Maquis. Charged with an unknown crime, all we know from past experience is that Cardassians courts, are…
The Twilight Zone (1959) – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance, and Escape Clause
My exploration of the dark corners of the universe captured in The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series, available from Paramount, continues this week with three spooky episodes. Up first is The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine which aired on 23 October, 1959, and was penned by Rod Serling. The tale follows Barbara Jean Trenton (Ida Lupino) an ageing…
The Mind Reels 