Alastair Reynolds next science fiction novel, Chasm City, takes place in the same universe as Revelation Space but is not a sequel, instead we are given a future noir tale of revenge, and the human ability to commit good and horrible acts, redemption, and discovery. We visit a couple of planets that were mentioned in…
Tag: war
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) – Shigeo Tanaka
The kaiju battles continue as I delve deeper into the chapter on dragons and dinosaurs in DK Canada’s fabulous Monsters in the Movies. With some fun modelwork, and man in a monster suit action this one is fairly predictable, and the human story gets too much in the way of the monster action, but it’s…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010/2011) – Senate Murders, Nightsisters, and Monster
“Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth is hard.” Senate Murders opens up the trio of episodes this week. Originally airing in Season Two, the chronology of the Clone Wars places it squarely during the events of Season Three. Written by Drew Z. Greenberg, it originally aired on 5 March, 2010. Tying in…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010) – Hunt For Ziro, Heroes on Both Sides, and Pursuit of Peace
“Love comes in all shapes and sizes.” Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle pen the first episode up this week, Hunt For Ziro, which continues the arc established last week that saw gangster Ziro the Hutt (Corey Burton) escaping the Republic prison he had been placed in. First airing on 12 November, 2010,…
Star Trek: Voyager (2000) – Live Fast and Prosper, and Muse
Captain’s log: stardate 53849.2 Identity theft still exists in the 24th century as we learn in this episode directed by LeVar Burton and written by Robin Burger. First airing on 19 April, 2000, the story follows a trio of thieves Dala (Kaitlin Hopkins), Mobar (Gregg Daniel) and Zar (Francis Guinan),who are impersonating Janeway (Kate Mulgrew),…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010) – Voyage of Temptation, Duchess of Mandalore, and Death Trap
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” The Mandalore arc continues this week in this story written by Paul Dini which first aired on 5 February, 2010. Traveling aboard a vessel to Coruscant, Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) are assigned to protect the Council of Neutral Systems,…
Star Trek: Voyager (2000) – Virtuoso, and Memorial
Captain’s log: stardate 53556.4 Raf Green and Kenneth Biller pen this Doctor (Robert Picardo) episode that debuted on 26 January, 2000. The holographic Doctor begins to contemplate leaving the Voyager when they arrive at a planet where the diminutive aliens (including guest star Paul Williams) have never developed music, and he becomes a bit of…
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…
Song of the Dark Crystal (2017) – J.M. Lee
The second novel in The Dark Crystal series by J.M. Lee (again featuring illustrations by Cory Godbey) picks up just after the events of the first book, and actually ties in with episode four of The Age of Resistance series on Netflix, though some of the details of characters meeting have changed since the novel…
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…
The Mind Reels 